Miscellaneous Intelligence. 409 



Henry L. Abbot : The disposition of rainfall in the basin of the Chagres. 



A. F. Zahm : Surface friction of the air at speeds below 40 feet a second. 



K. H. Chittenden: Physiological economy innutrition, with special refer- 

 ence to the minimal proteid requirement of the healthy man. 



Henry F. Osborn : Eecent paleontological discoveries by the American 

 Museum exploring parties. Reclassification of the Reptilia. 



W. D. Matthew : Position of the limbs in the Sauropoda. 



Horatio C. Wood, Jr. : A preliminary report upon Apocynum canna- 

 binum. 



Arthur T. Hadley : Biographical memoir of James Hadley. 



Charles L. Jackson : Biographical memoir of Henry Barker Hill. 



Alexander Graham Bell : The multi-nippled sheep of Beinn Bhreagh. 



Simon Newcomb : Application of new statistical methods to the question 

 of the causes influencing sex. 



C. S. Peirce : Note on the simplest possible branch of mathematics. 



2. Report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, showing the Progress of the Work from July 1, 1902 to 

 June 30, 1903. Pp. 1032, 4to, with numerous plates and sketch 

 maps. Washington, 1903. — This volume contains the usual report 

 (pp. 1-22) by the superintendent, O. H. Tittmannn, of the work 

 accomplished by the Survey in the year ending June 30, 1903. 

 Then follow seven Appendixes on details of field and of office 

 operations; on precise leveling in the United States 1900-3 ; on 

 triangulation southward along the ninety-eighth meridian in 1902 ; 

 on magnetic observations from July 1, 1902 to June 30, 1903, etc. 



3. The 1900 Solar Eclipse Expedition of the Astrophysical 

 Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution / by S. P. Langley, 

 Director, aided by C. G. Abbot. Pp. 26 with twenty-two plates. 

 Washington, 1904. — The official report of the highly successful 

 observations of the 1900 solar eclipse by the Smithsonian party at 

 Wadesboro, N*. C, is here presented. Of the accompanying plates 

 the first gives a striking general view of the corona obtained from 

 a 82-second exposure with the 11-foot focus camera ; other beauti- 

 ful plates give detailed illustrations of portions of the inner corona 

 from 16-second exposure with the 135 -foot focus camera, etc. 



4. Physique du Globe et Meteorologie ; par A. Berget. Pp. 

 353 ; 128 figures and 14 colored double-page plates. Paris, 1903 

 (C. Naud). — This volume is the basis of an elementary course 

 which the author is conducting at the Sorbonne, and appears at 

 the suggestion of M. Velain. It is a serious and, on the whole, 

 rather successful effort to collect all of the known facts that 

 bear on meteorology. It is essentially non-mathematical ; even 

 elementary mathematical discussions being separated from the 

 text proper by smaller type. 



The book is divided into three parts, the first treating of 

 terrestrial physics ; 124 pages being devoted to the discussion of 

 the size and position of the earth, its movements, determination of 

 its density, universal gravitation, cosmogony, geodesy, the meth- 

 ods of determining g, with historical treatment, and terrestrial 

 magnetism. 



The second part deals with the physics of the ocean; its consti- 

 tution, tides, the propagation of waves and currents are consid- 

 ered. The remainder of the book is devoted to the physics of 



