352 Scientific Intelligence. 



lytic dissociation ; Niels Ryberg Finsen for the treatment of 

 diseases by light rays ; Bjprnstjerne Bjornsen for his poetical 

 works. This interesting volume contains, in addition to an account 

 of the ceremonies accompanying the prize distribution, bio- 

 graphical notices of the recipients with portraits and also repro- 

 ductions of the Nobel medals and diplomas. The addresses at 

 the Conferences Nobel by H. Becquerel, P. Curie, S. Arrhenius 

 and W. Randal Cremer close the volume. 



2. British Association. — The annual meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science was held at York 

 from August 1 to 8 ; at which place the Association met both for 

 the first time in 1831 and again in 1881. Prof. E. Ray Lankester 

 in his presidential address reviewed the scientific advance of the 

 past quarter century. The next meeting, for 1907, will be held 

 in Leicester, that for 1908 in Dublin, and for 1909 at Winnipeg. 



3. Carnegie Institution of Washington. — The following are 

 titles of publications recently received : 



No. 34. American Fossil Cycads ; by G. R. Wieland. 4to. 

 Pp. vii + 296, 51 plates, 141 figures. A notice will follow. 



No. 46. An Investigation into the Elastic Constants of Rocks, 

 especially with reference to their Cubic Compressibility ; by F. 

 D. Adams and E. G. Coker. 8vo. Pp. 69, 16 plates. An abstract 

 was published in the August number, pp. 95-123. 



No. 50. The Relation of Desert Plants to Soil Moisture and 

 to Evaporation ; by Burton E. Livingston. Pp. 78, 16 cuts. 



No. 52. Inheritance in Poultry (Paper No. 7, Station for 

 Experimental Evolution) ; by C. B. Davenport. Pp. 136, 17 pi. 



No. 53. Egyptological Researches ; W. Max Muller. 4to. 

 In press. 



Obituary. 



William Buck Dwight, Professor of Geology at Yassar 

 College for nearly thirty years, died at Cottage City, Mass., 

 on August 29, at the age of seventy-three years. He was born in 

 Constantinople, the son of an American missionary, and came to 

 this country in 1849. He was graduated at Yale College in 1854, 

 at the Union Theological Seminary in 1857 and received the 

 degree of B.S. from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1859. He 

 carried on extensive field work in geology, chiefly in Dutchess 

 County, N. Y., between 1879 and 1890 ; a number of papers giv- 

 ing his results are contained in this Journal. He invented a 

 rock-slicing machine in 1891 and had charge of the department 

 of geology in the Standard Dictionary. He was one of the orig- 

 inal fellows of the Geological Society of America. 



Dr. Paul Drude, Professor of Physics and Director of the 

 Physical Laboratory at Berlin, died on July 5, at the age of 

 forty-three years. He was the author of important theoretical 

 and experimental researches on the electro-magnetic theory of 

 light and since 1890 had been editor of the Annalen der 

 jPhysik, during that period often known as Drude's Annalen. 



Sir Walter Lawry Buller, well known for his work on the 

 ornithology of New Zealand, died on July 19, at the age of sixty- 

 eight years. 



