94 Scientific Intelligence, 



Trustees of tlie British Museum : sold by Longmans & Co. and 

 others). — This third vohime of the catah)gue of the Orthoptera 

 in tlie British Museum completes the wori< undertaken by Mr. 

 Kirbj- a number of years since. It is devoted to the Locustidse 

 or Acridiida\ that is, the short-horned grasshoppers or migratory 

 locusts. V^ohime I of the catalogue was issued in 1904, Volume 

 II in 190»>. An Appendix and Catalogue bringing it up to date 

 was at one time contemplated but found to be impracticable. 



7. Catalogue of British Hyiiienoptera of the Family (Jhalci- 

 didce ; by Claude Morley. Pp. 28. London, 1910 (printed 

 by order of the Trustees of the British Museum), sold by Long- 

 mans & Co., and others, 1910. — A catalogue has now been issued 

 of the difficult and little-known group of the Calcididaj, about 

 which practically nothing has been published since the time of 

 Francis Walker. With this work the series of catalogues' of 

 British Hymenoptera is now complete. 



8. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phaloence in the British 

 Museum. Volume IX. Catalogue of the N'octuidoi; by Sir George 

 F. Hampson. Pp. XV, 552, with 1 1 plates and 247 figures. London, ' 

 1910. — This ninth volume of the Catalogue of Moths represented 

 in the British Museum includes the third and final portion 

 of the large Noctuid sub-famil}'- Acronyctinse It contains 725 

 species belonging to 185 genera. 



9. The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. — The following has recently appeared : Science Bulle- 

 tin, Vol. I, No. 17. Additions to the Carabidse of North Amei-ica 

 with Notes on Species already known ; by Charles Schaefper. 

 Pp. 391-405. May, 1910. 



IV. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing. Bulletin No. 4. Medical Education in the United States 

 and Canada : A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching ; by Abraham Flexner ; with an 

 Introduction by Henry S. Pritchett. Pp. xvii, 346. New York, 

 1910. — The management of the Carnegie Foundation has taken a 

 broad view of the work which has devolved upon it. What it is 

 doing in the general line of University and College work is well 

 known, but in this bulletin we have the first of a series of papers 

 devoted to the Professional Schools. This has been prepared by 

 Mr. Abraham Flexner ; he deals with the whole subject of medical 

 education, treating it not only historically but taking up what is 

 regarded as the proper basis of a medical education as compared 

 with that actually existing, and dealing also with other topics, 

 such as laboratories, the relations of the hospital and the medical 

 school, etc. The latter half of the work gives the data collected 

 in regard to the individual schools in the United States and 

 Canada, arranged alphabetically. The standard called for is cer- 



