90 Scientific Intelligence. 



2. Publications of the Washburn Observatory of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, vol. ix, pp. 258, 4to, Madison, 1896. — This 

 volume contains, 1st, the results of an elaborate investigation of 

 the aberration and atmospheric refraction by Prof. Comstock, 

 and 2d, observations of the right ascension of certain stars made 

 by Mr. Flint with a prism apparatus. 



3. Mathematical papers read at the International Mathematical 

 Congress held in connection with the WorkVs Columbian Expo- 

 sition!, Chicago, 1893, 8°, pp. xvi, and 411. New York, 1896. (Mac- 

 millan & Co. for the American Mathematical Society: $4.00). — 

 This volume is vol. i of papers published by the Am. Math. Soc, 

 the society havinsr given |600 towards its publication. It is 

 edited by a committee of the congress of which Prof. E. H. 

 Moore was chairman, and it contains forty-five papers furnished 

 by American, German, Swiss, Austrian, French and Russian 

 mathematicians. With such a wide circle of contributors the vol- 

 ume naturally covers subjects of widely varied character. It is, 

 of course, a volume that must find place in every university 

 library. 



4. America?! Association for the Advancement of Science. — 

 The forty-filth meeting of the American Association is to be held 

 in Buffalo, N. Y., from August 22d to 29th. The preliminary 

 program, recently issued by the permanent secretary, F. W. 

 Putnam, gives the places and times of meeting, statements as to 

 excursions and so on. Mr. Putnam's address is Salem, Mass., 

 until August 17th, after that, A. A. A. S., BuflTalo ; the address of 

 the local secretary is Mr. Eben P. Dorr, A. A. A. S., Buffalo. 



5. The British Association for the Advancement of Science. — 

 The sixty-sixth meeting of the British Association is to be held 

 at Liverpool, from September 16th to 23d. 



6. Journal of Physical Chemistry. — The attention of the 

 readers of this Journal is called to the prospectus inserted in the 

 present number of the new Journal of Physical Chemistry, the 

 publication of which is to be commenced at Ithaca, N. Y., under 

 the editorship of Professors Wilder D. Bancroft and Joseph E. 

 Trevor. It merits the cordial support of all interested in this 

 department of science. 



Obituary. 



Joseph Prestwich, the distinguished English geologist, died 

 in June at the age of eiojhty-four years. 



M. Daubree, the eminent French geologist, died at Paris on 

 May 29, at the age of eighty-two years. His long life bore 

 abundant fruit and gave him a foremost place among the workers 

 in science, not only in his own country, but in the world at large. 

 His researches were numerous, and of the highest value ; they 

 covered a wide field, embracing particularly experimental geology, 

 the artificial production of minerals and the characters of meteor- 

 ites. Those who had the privilege of his personal acquaintance 

 will never forget the peculiar charm of his courtly, genial manner, 

 which expressed his high character and kind, generous heart. 



