368 Scientific Intelligence. 



7. The Rochester Collection of Meteorites ; Descriptive List 

 of Specimens ; by Kenneth S. Howard. Pp. 28, with 2 plates. 

 Rochester, 1909.— The Rochester collection of meteorites, of 

 which a catalogue has been recently published, contains a total of 

 234 falls, represented by 267 specimens : these include 89 sider- 

 ites, 19 siderolites and 126 aerolites. A large part of the mate- 

 rial was accumulated by the late Professor Henry A. Ward as 

 duplicates in the course of his labors in bringing together the 

 Ward-Coonley meteorite collection. Many fine individual speci- 

 mens are noted in the catalogue, the collection being particularly 

 rich in the irons, two-thirds of which weigh over 100 grams each. 



8. A new Meteorite from Georgia. — A new meteoric stone has 

 been recently described by G. P. Merrill from Thomson, 

 McDuffie county, Georgia. It was found on October 15, 1888, 

 but has been in private hands and its existence has only now 

 been made public. Its present weight is 218 grams and could 

 not have been greater originally than 250 grams ; it is largely 

 covered with a black crust. The specific gravity is 3*51 and a 

 polished surface shows a light gray ground resolved with a lens 

 into a compact mass of gray chondrites, with small particles of 

 metallic iron and iron sulphide. It is somwhat similar to the 

 Mocs meteorite. — Smithsonian Misc. Gonts., lii, pp. 473-476, 2 

 plates. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Carnegie Institution of Washington. — Recent publications 

 of the Carnagie Institution are noted in the following list (con- 

 tinued from vol. xxviii, p. 564) : 



No. 74. The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances, 

 edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum ; by H. Oskar 

 Sommer. Vol. I, Lestoire del Saint Graal. Pp. xxxii, 296. Vol. 

 II, Lestoire de Merlin. Pp. 466. 



No. 85 (Kentucky). Index of Economic Material in Docu- 

 ments of the States of the United States. Kentucky, 1792-1904. 

 Prepared for the Department of Economics and Sociology of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington ; by Adelaide R. Hasse. 

 Pp. 452. 



No. 100. The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia; by Williams 

 Hayes Ward. Pp. xxix, 428, 1315 illustrations. 



No. 108. The Atrium Vestse ; by Esther Boise Van Deman. 

 Pp. ix, 47, frontispiece, 10 plates and plans A-F, showing walls 

 of various periods. 



No. 116. — The Differentiation and Specificity of corresponding 

 Proteins and other vital Substances in relation to Biological 

 Classification and Organic Evolution : The Crystallography of 

 Hemoglobins ; by Edward Tyson Reiciiert, and Amos Peaslee 

 Brown. Pp. ix, 338, 100 plates and 56 tables. 



No. 121. Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl ; 

 by Charles B. Davenport. Pp. iii, 100, with 12 colored plates. 



2. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University 

 of Pittsburgh. — The following has been recently issued : Vol. I, 

 No. 20. - The Algol— Variable 8 Librse. Pp. 123-134. 



