Miscellaneous Intelligence. 305 



concern the Yellowstone Park and its geysers, the Grand Canyon 

 and the Sierra Nevada. The concluding paper discusses the sur- 

 face of Central Norway. 



3. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 

 — Recent publications of the Carnegie Institution are noted in 

 the following list (continued from p. 523, November, 1915): — 



No. 159. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and 

 the West Indies ; by L. O. Howard, H. G. Dyar and Frederick 

 Knab. Volume Three. Systematic Description (in two parts). 

 Part I. Pp. vi, 523. 



No. 189. A Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser ; 

 compiled and edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood. 4to. Pp. 

 xiii, 997. 



No. 206. The Relation of Plants to Tide-Levels : A study of 

 factors affecting the distribution of marine plants ; by Duncan 

 S. Johnson and Harlan H. York. Pp. 162. 



No. 215 A. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of 

 the United States ; by E. R. Johnson, T. W. Van Metre, G. G. 

 Huebner, and D. S. Hanchett. With an Introductory Note by 

 Henry W. Farnaii. Vol. I, pp. xv, 363 ; Vols. II, pp. ix, 398. 



No. 216. A Comparison of Methods for determining the Res- 

 piratory Exchange of Man ; by Thorne M. Carpenter. Pp. 

 265, 74 figs. 



No. 217. The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as con- 

 ditioned by Climatic Factors; by Forrest Shreve. Pp. 112; 

 36 pis. 



No. 218. The Establishment of Varieties in Coleus by the 

 Selection of Somatic Variations ; by A. B. Stout. Pp. 80 ; 29 

 figs., 4 pis. 



No. 223. Contributions to Embryology. 4to. Volume III, 

 Nos. 7, 8, 9. Pp. 90. 



No. 229. Experiments with the Displacement Interferometer ; 

 by Carl Barus. Pp. vi, 113 ; 66 figs., 18 tables. 



No. 230. Conductivities and Viscosities in pure and in mixed 

 Solvents. Radiometric Measurements of the Ionization Constants 

 of Indicators ; by Harry C. Jones and collaborators. Pp. vii, 

 175 ; 21 figs. 



No. 231. Energy Transformations during Horizontal Walking ; 

 by Francis G. Benedict and Hans Murschhauser. Pp. 100 ; 

 7 figs. 



No. 236. The Feebly Inhibited. Nomadism, or the wander- 

 ing impulse, with special reference to Heredity. Inheritance of 

 Temperament ; by Charles B. Davenport. Pp. 158. (Paper 

 No. 24 of the station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, New York.) 



4. Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey, E. Lester Jones, to the 

 Secretary of Commerce, W. C. Redfield, for the fiscal year 

 ended Jane 30, 1915. Pp. 156, with numerous maps and other 

 illustrations. Washington, 1915. — This report is in two parts : 



