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Scientific Intelligence. 



America north of the Isthmus of Panama, by Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, has recently been issued. Part I was published in October, 

 1896. The third and final part with index, glossary, etc., is prom- 

 ised soon ; it will be followed by a fourth volume which will be an. 

 atlas of plates. 



IY. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Institute of France. — At the session of the Academie des- 

 Sciences held at Paris, December 5, 1898, Professor O. C. Marsh 

 of Yale University, to whom the Cuvier prize was awarded a 

 year since, was elected Correspondent of the Academy. 



2. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution showing the operations, expenditures and condition of 

 the Institution to July, 1896 ; pp. i-li, 1—727 ; plates i to lxi. — 

 This valuable report submitted to Congress by the Secretary, 

 S. P. Langley, has recently appeared. The opening portion (pp. 

 1-77) are given to matters of administrative detail in regard to 

 the work of the Institution in its different departments. The 

 General Appendix (pp. 89-727) contains as usual a series of sci- 

 entific papers on a wide range of topics, the republication of 

 which in this place is a boon to many interested in science. 



3. Der Ursprung der Afrikanischen Kultur von L. Frobenius,. 

 pp. i-xxxi, 1-368, with 5 folded charts, 9 plates and 225 illustra- 

 tions in the text. Berlin, 1898 (Gebruder Borntraeger). — This is 

 the opening volume of what promises to be an extensive and 

 important work, devoted to the origin of culture in general. The 

 subject of the volume is the origin of culture in Africa, and this 

 is treated with much fullness and abundance of illustration. Some 

 of the topics discussed in detail are the weapons, shields, knives, 

 etc.; also the various kinds of musical instruments, the different 

 forms of huts and household utensils. The latter portion of the 

 work deals with the physiological side of the subject in its varied 

 aspects. 



4. Organic Evolution Considered ; by Alfred Fairhtjrst, 

 pp. 1-386. Christian Publishing Co., St. Louis, 1897. — In regard 

 to his work the author states : " I look upon the theory of evo- 

 lution as being of no importance except as it involves the well- 

 being of man. . . My object in what I have written is to promote 

 the belief in theism and in the existence of a spiritual nature in 

 man which theism alone can explain." 



Catalogues recently issued. 



Catalogue of Books aud Papers on Chemistry and Physics, No. iv. Dulau and Co ., 

 3*7 Soho Square, London, W., 1898. 



Dr. P. Krantz, Rheinisches Mineralien-Contor in Bonn. — Katalog Nr. la 

 (Siebente Auflage), Mineralien and Mineralpraparate, Mineralogische Apparate 

 und Utensilien, pp. i-xii, 1-113, 1898. 



Catalogue and Price List of Minerals for Scientific and Educational Purposes. 

 Loose crystals a specialty. Roy Hopping, 5 and 7 Dey Street, New York City. 

 1899. 



