346 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



nitions, problems, etc., whose scope is by no means to be measured 

 by the number of pages. 



6. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard Col- 

 lege j Vol. XIII, p. ii. Cambridge, 1888. E. C. Pickering, 

 Director. The zone observations made, principally by Professor 

 Searle, in the years 1882-6 with the transit wedge photometer 

 attached to the large equatorial are here published. The stars 

 measured are largely from the zones observed by Bond. 



7. The Movements of the Earth ; by J. Norman Lockter. 

 Macmillan & Co. 188V, 8°, pp. 130. — A small volume, the first 

 of a series promised by Mr. Lockyer, to give the Outlines of 

 Physiography. This volume explains the various motions of the 

 earth, and the first principles of the measurement of space and 

 time in Astronomy. 



8. Publications of the Lick Observatory of the University of 

 California ; E. S. Holder, Director. Vol. I. Sacramento, 1887. 

 — This volume contains a history of the institution, an account of 

 various observations made during the progress of construction; a 

 description of part of the instrumental equipment ; and a series 

 of reduction tables. 



9. Cordoba Observations. — The ninth volume of the Resultados 

 del Observatorio Nacional Argentine, containing the observations 

 made under Dr. Gould's direction in 1876 has been received. 



10. Elementary Treatise on Analytical Mechanics; by W. G. 

 Peck. 319 &d., 8vo. New York and Chicago, 1887 (A. S. 

 Barnes & Co.).— The important principles of analytical mechanics 

 are presented in this volume systematically and with a good deal 

 of clearness of arrangement though without much claim to origin- 

 ality. 



OBITUARY. 



James C. Booth died March 21, at Philadelphia, at the 

 age of seventy-eight. He was the author, with M. H. Boye, 

 of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry, published in 1844, and also of 

 a report on the Geology of Delaware, with chemical notes. He 

 contributed a considerable number of papers on chemical subjects, 

 several of them in analytical mineralogy. He was for many years 

 on the staff of the U. S. Mint at Philadelphia. 



G-eologie des Munsterthals, von Dr. A. Schmidt, A.O., Prof. Univ. Heidelberg. 

 2d part. Porphyry. 172 pp. 8vo. Heidelberg, 1887 (Carl Winter's Universitats- 

 buchhandlung). 



Uebersich der Physiko-geographischen verhaltnisse des Europaischen Russ- 

 land, wahrend der verflossenen geologischen Perioden von A. Karpinski. 44 pp. 

 8vo, with one plate. St. Petersburgh, 1887. 



