162 Scientific Intelligence. 



made by the author during June and July, 1903. Of the 43 species 

 found, 5 are known only from the Bahamas, 2 of which are locally 

 abundant. Among them, one genus (Paranemus) and two species 

 are new to science. The opportunity of studying asexual bud- 

 ding was afforded by a most interesting example of JEucheilota 

 paradoxica. The paucity of the medusa-fauna of this locality 

 compared with that of Tortugas, Florida, is given as being 

 largely due to local conditions. The former being situated to the 

 windward, while the latter is to the leeward of the Gulf Stream, 

 is depleted by the prevailing winds, and is poor in those creatures 

 which are mainly dependent upon great currents for their dis- 

 tribution. K. J. E. 



II. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. International Congress of Arts and Science at the Uni- 

 versal Exposition, St. Louis. — An International Scientific Congress 

 will be held at St. Louis from Sept. 19-25, in connection with the 

 Universal Exposition. Professor Simon Newcomb is the Presi- 

 dent of the Congress and Professors Hugo Muensterberg and 

 A. W. Small the Yice Presidents. The whole field of knowledge 

 is divided for the purposes of the Congress into seven divisions, 

 these further into twenty-four departments and these finally into 

 some 128 sections. The official program contains the following 

 statements : 



"After the opening of the Congress on Monday afternoon, 

 September 19, will follow, on Tuesday forenoon, addresses on 

 main divisions of science and its applications, the general theme 

 being the unification of each of the fields treated. These will be 

 followed by two addresses on each of the twenty-four great 

 departments of knowledge. The theme of one address in each 

 case will be the Fundamental Conceptions and Methods, while 

 the other will set forth the progress during the last century. The 

 preceding addresses will be delivered by Americans, making the 

 work of the first two days the contribution of American scholars. 

 On the third day, with the opening of the sections, the inter- 

 national work will begin. About 128 sectional meetings will be 

 held on the four remaining days of the Congress, at each of which 

 two papers will be read, the theme of one being suggested by the 

 Relations of the special branch treated to other branches ; the 

 other by its Present Problems." 



The list of distinguished scholars, from Europe and America, 

 announced as speakers at the Congress, ensures it an eminent 

 degree of success in its grand object of "the unification of 

 knowledge." 



2. Geographen JTalender, 190^-1905, edited by Hermann 

 Haack ; 290 pp., 16 maps: Gotha (Justus Perthes). — There is 

 no one publication which serves so well the purpose of an annual 

 reference book of geographical matter as Dr. Haack's "Kalender." 

 New explorations, adjustments of boundaries, development of 

 canals, railroads, etc., are described and mapped. To this are 

 added a list of addresses of scientists and societies, a review of 

 the year's geographical literature and a mass of useful statistics. 



