306 Scientific Intelligence. 



the first discusses in detail and most convincingly the many 

 and urgent needs of the Bureau in its different lines of work. 

 The second part gives a statement of the field and office work 

 accomplished during the year. A series of large maps (Nos. 

 3-6) shows the condition of the hydrographic survey of the coasts 

 and their harbors, Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Alaskan. These 

 charts show in striking manner the large amount of additional 

 work imperatively called for. In this connection it is satisfactory 

 to note that an increased appropriation has made it possible to 

 place in the field four parties for wire-drag work instead of two 

 (see pp. 225-227, February, 1915). 



5. Publications of the United States JVaval Observatory • J. 

 A. Hoogeweeff, U. S. N., Superintendent. Second Series. 

 Volume IX, part II. Pp. Bvii, B759. Washington, 1915.— Of 

 the four parts making up volume IX, the second part is now 

 issued. It contains the observations made with the nine-inch 

 transit circle, 1903-1908, under the direction of W. S. Eichel- 

 berger. 



The Annual Report of the Naval Observatory for the fiscal 

 year 1915 (pp. 1-19) has also been recently published. 



6. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh. — The following papers have been recently 

 issued : 



Vol. Ill, No. 19. Tables for parallax factors in right ascension ; 

 by Frank Schlesinger; pp. 161-165. 



No. 20. Spectrographs observations of A Tauri, indicating the 

 presence of a third body in the system ; by Frank Schlesinger ; 

 pp. 167-178. 



No. 21. The orbit and spectrum of VV. Orionis ; by Zac- 

 chetts Daniel ; pp. 179-188. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Daniel Giraud Elliot, the distinguished ornithologist 

 and mammalogist, died at his home in New York City on Decem- 

 ber 22 at the age of eighty years. 



Sir John Rhys, the well-known English anthropologist, died 

 on December 17 at the age of seventy-five years. 



Professor Johan Christian Moberg, of the University of 

 Lund, Sweden, the distinguished paleontologist and stratigrapher, 

 died on December 30, 1915, at the age of sixty-one years. His 

 scientific work related in the main to the older Paleozoic forma- 

 tions of Sweden. 



Dr. Heinrich Debus, the veteran chemist, died at Cassel, Ger- 

 man} T , on December 9 in the ninety-second year of his age. 

 Though born in Germany he came to England in 1851, and spent 

 most of his productive years in that country, where he was inti- 

 mately associated with Frankland and others. 



