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tainly high — much higher than that to which the majority of 

 medical institutions now attain — but not too liigh to insure the 

 best possible training of medical men for the sake of the public 

 to whom they are to minister. 



2. Cm-negie Institution of Washington. — Recent publications 

 of the Carnegie Institution are noted in the following list (contin- 

 ued from p. 368, v. xxix). 



No. 85 (Delaware). Index of Economic Material in Documents 

 of the States of the United States. Delaware 1Y89-1904. Pre- 

 pared for the Department of Economics and Sociology of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington ; by Adelaide R. Hasse. 

 Pp. 137, 4to. 



No. 87, Volume II. The California Earthquake of April 18, 

 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission. 

 In two volumes and Atlas. Volume II : The Mechanics of the 

 Earthquake ; by Harry Fielding Reid. Pp. viii, 1 92, 4to, with 



2 plates and 62 figures. 



No. 96 (Part 2). Condensation of Vapor as induced by Nuclei 

 and Ions. Fourth Report ; by Carl Barus. Pp. viii, 84. 



No. 105. Factor Table for the first Ten Millions, containing 

 the Smallest Factor of Every Number not divisible by 2, 3, 5, or 7 

 between the limits and 10017000 ; by Derrick Norman Leh- 

 MER. Pp. 476, folio. 



No. 115. Preliminary General Catalogue of 6188 Stars for the 

 Epoch 1900, including those visible to the naked eye, and other 

 well-determined stars ; prepared at the Dudley Observatory, 

 Albany, New York, by Lewis Boss. Pp. xxxvii, 345, 4to, with 



3 appendices. 



No. 123. Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respira- 

 tory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man; by Francis 

 G. Benedict and Thorne M. Carpenter. Pp. vi, 102, with 32 

 figures. 



No. 125. Determination of Atomic Weights. Further Investi- 

 gation concerning the Atomic Weights of Silver, Lithium, and 

 Chlorine ; by Theodore W. Richards and Hobart Hurd 

 Willard. The Harvard Determinations of Atomic Weights 

 between 1870 and 1910 ; by Theodore W. Richards. Methods 

 Used in Precise Chemical Investigation; by Theodore W. Rich- 

 ards. Pp. iv, 113. 



3. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh. — The following paper has recently appeared: 

 Volume I, No. 22. The Spectroscopic Binary jQ Aurigse ; by 

 Robert H. Baker. Pp. 163-190, with 14 tables. 



Obituary. 



William Phipps Blake, Professor of Geology, emeritus, in 

 the University of Arizona, died on May 22d at Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia, whither he had gone to take part in the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of the University of California. He was born in New 



