404: Scientific Intelligence. 



small degree from the fact that it has been prepared by an author 

 who has himself a thorough acquaintance with the Arctic and 

 whose own exploits in this field will never cease to excite admira- 

 tion. 



4. James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics; by R. T. 

 Glazebrook, F.R.S., 224 pp. 12mo. New York, 1896 (Macmillan 

 & Co. — The Century Science* Series). — Modern physics owes to 

 Maxwell perhaps more than to any other of recent physicists, for 

 his keen insight into the scientific problems in which he was 

 interested gave a rare value and originality to all that he wrote. 

 His Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism has been before the 

 public for many years, but no one would venture to say that this 

 mine has been exhausted. The present volume is written by a 

 physicist well fitted to deal with a subject of more than usual 

 difficulty and no one interested in the recent progress in physics, 

 or in the personality of those to whom this progress is due, can 

 fail to be profited by its perusal. 



5. North American Birds, by H. Nehrling, Part XIII, pp. 

 193-240, Milwaukee, Wis. (Geo. Brumder). — The thirteenth part 

 of this interesting and handsomely illustrated work has appeared 

 recently. 



6. OstwaUVs Klassiker der exacten Wissenschaften, (Wm. 

 Engelmann, Leipzig). — The latest additions to Ostwald's valuable 

 series of classic scientific memoirs are the following : 



No. 67. Entwurf einer Theorie der Abel'schen Transcendenten Erster Ordnung 

 von Dr. A. Gopel (1847). 



No. 68. Das natiirliche System der chemischen Elemente. Abhandlungen von 

 Lothar Meyer (1864-1869) imd D. Mendelejeff (1869-1871). 



No. 69. Ueber Faraday's Kraftlinien, von James Clerk Maxwell (1855-1856). 



No. 70. Magnetische Polarization der Metalle und Erze durcb Temperatur- 

 differenz, von Th. J. Seebeck (1822-1823). 



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No. 71. Untersuchungen iiber die Reihe 1+— x + -^- — - — . a; 2 + ... von 



N. H. Abel (1826). 



Nr. 72. Chemische Analyse durch Spectralbeobachtungen, von G-. Kirchhoff 

 und R. Bunsen. (1860.) 74 pages. 



Nr. 73. Zwei Abhandlungen iiber Spharische Trigonometne, von Leonhard 

 Eulek. (1753 und 1779.) 65 pages. 



Nr. 74. Untersuchungen iiber die Gesetz der Yerwandschaft, von Claude Louis 

 Berthollet. (1801.; 113 pages. 



Nr. 75. Abhandlung iiber die Herleitung aller Krystallographischer Systeme 

 mit ihren Unterabtheilungen aus einem einzigen Prinzipe, von Axel Gadolin. 

 (1867.) 92 pages. 



The Origin and History of Contract in Roman Law down to the end of the 

 Republican Period. (Being the Yorke Prize Essay for 1893.) By W. H. Buckler. 

 London : 1895. 228 pages (C. J. Clay & Sons). 



Elements of Botany ; by J. Y. Bergen. 57 pp. 12mo. Boston and London, 

 1896 (Ginn & Company). 



Las Rocas Eruptivas del Suroeste de la cuenca de Mexico, par Ezequiel 

 Ordonez. (Boletin d. Inst. Geol. d. Mexico, Num. 2), pp. 1-46. Mexico, 1895. 



