332 Scientific Intelligence. 



ical effects after suprarenin (adrenalin) injections is not due to 

 any rapid oxidation of this compound in the body, but rather to 

 its gradual dilution by diffusion and distribution in the organism. 



L. B. M. 



3. Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Edward C. 

 Pickering, Director. — Recent publications are the following: 



Annals, Vol. XLITI, part iii. Observations and Investigations 

 made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in the years 

 1901, 1902, under the direction of A. Lawrence Rotch ; with 

 appendices containing a discussion of the effect of meteorological 

 conditions upon audibility ; also the observations with kites, 

 1897-1902, and a description of the kites arid instruments. Pp. 

 115-239, with four plates. 



Annals, Vol. XLVIIT, No. ix, Geographical Position of the 

 Arequipa Station, by Winslow Upton, pp. 221-273. 



Circular, No. 74. Variable Stars of long Period, pp. 10. No. 

 75, Variability of Iris (7). 



4. Publications of the United States Naval Observatory, Rear- 

 Admiral Colby M. Chester, IT. S. N., Superintendent. Second 

 Series, Volume V. Meteorological Observations and Results, 

 1893-1902. Pp. x, 443, 4to. Washington, 1903.— This volume 

 contains the usual meteorological observations, given in tabular 

 form, of barometric pressure, temperature, wind direction and 

 velocity, etc., taken at the Naval Observatory, Georgetown 

 Heights, during the decade from 1893 to 1902. 



5. Where did Life Begin? by G. Hilton Scribjster. 75 pp. 

 New York, 1903. (Charles Scribners' Sons.) — In 1883 Mr. Scrib- 

 ner publtshed a monograph advocating the theory that living 

 forms originated within the circumpolar area. This book is now 

 republished, and it is worthy of note that the " Scibnerian theory 

 of the Place of the Origin of Life" is in accord with the conclu- 

 sions reached by Dr. J. L. Wortman from a study of vertebrate 

 fossils and by Dr. Wieland from a study of fossil plants (this 

 Journal, xv, 419; xvi, 401). 



6. Field Columbian Museum. — Among the recent publica- 

 tions is to be mentioned Vol. IV of the Anthropological Series 

 by George A. Dorsey (pp. xii, 228, with 139 plates), giving a 

 minute and fully illustrated description of the famous Arapaho 

 Sun Dance. Other publications are the following : On the Oste- 

 ology of Nyctosaitrus (Nyctodactylus) with notes on American 

 Pterosaurs by S. W. Williston. Structure and Relationship of 

 Opisthoccelian Dinosaurs, Part 1, Apatosaurus Marsh; by E. S. 

 Riggs. Catalogue of Meteorites by O. C. Farrington, mentioned 

 on p. 329. 



7. Bureau of American Ethnology : Twentieth Annual Report 

 to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1898-99 / by 

 J. W. Powell, Director. Washington, 1903. — This volume con- 

 tains the report of the Director (pp. i-ccxxiv) and also an interest- 

 ing paper by W. H. Holmes (pp. 1-237) giving a description of 

 the aboriginal pottery of the eastern United States, illustrated by 

 a hundred and seventy-seven plates and seventy-nine text figures. 



