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of this important enterprise, and the publication of an additional 

 series of volumes of the first annual issue, that is for the year 

 1901. These include the following: D, Chemistry, Part II, 

 pp. 671 ; G, Mineralogy, including Petrology and Crystallo- 

 graphy, pp. 208; J, Geography, pp. 268; H, Geology, pp. 220; 

 K, Palaeontology, pp. 170 ; L, General Biology, pp. 144 ; P, 

 Physical Anthropology, pp. 224; O, Human Anatomy, pp. 

 212 ; Q, Physiology, including Experimental Physiology, Phar- 

 macology and Experimental Pathology, Part II, pp. 664. There 

 is also a volume of 312 pages given to a List of Journals. 



It is to be regretted that thus far no Government aid has been 

 obtained for this great work, and hence its prosecution would 

 have been rendered impossible in this country had it not been 

 taken up by the Smithsonian Institution. At first only limited 

 means were at its disposal, but beginning with July 1, 1903, a 

 larger sum of money is devoted to it, increasing materially the 

 force of workers. This will make it possible to carry on the 

 work more promptly, and to fill up what omissions have occurred 

 from January, 1901, to the present time. It is stated that this 

 country leads in the number of subscribers, the total being ninety- 

 six, equivalent to seventy complete sets, for which the yearly 

 subscription is eighty -five dollars. It is highly to be desired that 

 this relatively good showing should be much increased, as the 

 enterprise is one of very great importance to workers in science 

 and should have general support, particularly from the libraries. 



2. National Academy of Sciences. — The following is a list of 

 the papers presented at the recent meeting of the National 

 Academy in Chicago (vol. xvi, 475). 



T. C. Chamberlin : Preliminary report on the Agassiz data relative to 

 underground temperatures at the Calumet and Hecla mine. 



C. E. Dutton : The velocities of earthquake vibrations and their signifi- 

 cance. 



A. P. Mathews : The relation between solution tension and physiological 

 action of the elements. 



S. W. Williston : On the distribution and the classification of the Plesio- 

 saurs. 



C. O. Whitman : The evolution of the wing-bars in pigeons. 



Chas. B. Davenport : Evolution without mutation. 



J. McK. Cattell : The measurement of scientific merit. 



J. Stieglitz : Stereoisomer^ nitrogen compounds. 



Charles Baskerville : On the recent investigations of the rare earths in 

 the laboratory of the University of North Carolina. 



E. E. Barnard : Some peculiarities of comets' tails, and their probable 

 explanation. 



Edwin B. Frost : Stars of the Orion class. 



George E. Hale : On the nature of the solar flocculi. 



Geo, C. Comstock : The relation of stellar magnitude to stellar distances. 



A. A. Michelson : Spectra of imperfect gratings. 



Stephen Moulton Babcock : The relations of weight and energy. 



C. S. Slichter : The propagation of ground water waves. 



William H. Brewer : Biographical memoir of Sereno Watson. 



3. Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Edward C. 

 Pickering, Director. — Recent publications from the Harvard 

 Observatory include the following: Annals volume XL VI, Part I, 



