410 Scientific Intelligence. 



the atmosphere, under the topics : astronomical phenomena, con- 

 stitution of atmosphere, actinometry, atmospheric pressure, winds, 

 cyclones and anti-cyclones, centers of high pressures, periodical 

 winds, general circulation, atmospheric perturbations,' hygrom- 

 etry, electrical phenomena, climate, forecasting. 



The treatment is thoroughly French ; still, the author acknow- 

 ledges his regret that the observations in different parts of France 

 (where they appear to differ in time by as much as four to five 

 hours) are not made simultaneously and frequently as are those in 

 this country. The slowness in the development of meteorology, he 

 considers, is due rather to a lack of skill exercised in making 

 observations than to any lack in the volume of records. 



Despite the variety of subjects treated, the book is without an 

 index. d. a. k. 



5. OstivalcPs Klassiker der Exacten Wissenschaften. Leipzig, 

 (WilhelmEngelmann). — The following volumes have been recently 

 added to this important collection of reprints of classical scien- 

 tific memoirs: 



No 140. Experimental -Untersuchungen iiber Elektricitat ; von 

 Michael Faraday. XX bis XXIII Reihe. Herausgegeben von 

 A. J. von Oettingen. Pp. 174. 



No. 141. tjber die Bestimmung einer Elliptischen Bahn aus 

 drei vollstandigen Beobachtungen ; von J. F. Encke. Uber die 

 Bestimmung der Bahn eines Himmelskorpers aus drei Beobacht- 

 ungen von P. A. Hansen. Herausgegeben ; von J. Bauschinger. 

 Pp. 162. 



No. 142. Fiinf Abhandlungen iiber absolute elektrische Strom- 

 und Widerstandsmessung, von Wilhelm Meyer und Rudolph 

 Kohlrausch. Herausgegeben ; von Friedrich Kohlrausch. Pp.116. 



6. Studies in Hetero genes is ; by H. Charlton Bastian. Pp. 

 ix-f 354-f-xxxvii, 19 pis. containing 815 reproductions from micro- 

 photographs. London, 1904 (Williams & Norgate.) — Heterogene- 

 sis as defined by Dr. Bastian is "the production from the substance 

 of organisms or their germs of alien forms of life." Numerous 

 instances are given to show transformation of the contents of 

 vegetal cells to amoebae and monads, of algae to diatoms. The 

 egg of the Hydatina can be transformed into a ciliated infu- 

 sorian ! The processes by which Dr. Bastian arrives at his start- 

 ling conclusions will hardly stand the test of modern scientific 

 research. 



Obituary. 



M. F. A. Fouque, the distinguished French geologist, petrog- 

 rapher and mineralogist, died at Paris on March 7, in his seventy- 

 sixth year. 



M. Henri Perkotin, the eminent French astronomer, Director 

 of the Observatory at Nice, died early in March at the age of 

 fifty-eight years. 



Professor Fredrik Adam Smitt, the well known Swedish 

 geologist, died on February 19, in his sixty-fifth year. 



Dr. James Hyatt, one of the pioneers in science in this coun- 

 try, died at Bangall, N. Y. on February 27, in his eighty-seventh 

 year. 



