1(50 Scientific Intelligence. 



of the Bureau of Soils, as a means of determining actual soil 

 deficiencies. 



Part IV treats of prepared commercial fertilizers, and briefly 

 of indirect manures, of agencies protective against plant dis- 

 eases and insect pests, of critical periods in plant life, losses of 

 plant food from plants and soils ; also of factors of importance in 

 crop production, and of those involving success in farming. 



The Appendix contains more or less miscellaneous matter, and 

 tables of agricultural interest. 



The work is original in its composition, but is perhaps too contro- 

 versial lo meet accepted ideas, if intended as a text-book. It lays 

 unusual emphasis on certain matters like limestone and phosphate 

 rock, but contains a vast amount of matter which will cause it to 

 be welcomed as a valuable addition to our agricultural literature. 



H. J. WlIEELEI^. 



3. Publications of the Smithsonian Institution. — Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, Bulletin 48. The Choctaw of Bayou 

 Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana ; by David I. Bushnell, 

 Jr. Pp. viii, 37, with 22 plates and 1 figure. Washington, 

 1909. 



The following volumes in the series of Smithsonian Miscella- 

 neous Collections have also appeared : Vol. 51, No. 4. Hodgkins 

 Fund (Publication 1869). The Mechanics of the Earth's Atmos- 

 phere : A Collection of Translations; by Cleveland Abbe. 

 Third Collection. Pp. iv, 617. 



Vol. 54, No. 3. The Constants of Nature. Part V. A Recal- 

 culation of the Atomic Weights. Third edition, i-evised and 

 enlarged ; by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. (Publication 

 1923.) Pp. iv, 548. Noticed on p. 80 of this volume. 



Volume. 55. (Publication 1920.) Bibliography of Aeronau- 

 tics ; by Paul Brockett. Pp. xiv, 940. 



Vol. 56, No. 1. The Scales of the African Characinid Fishes ; 

 by T. D. A. Cockekell. Pp. 10, with 2 plates. (Publication 

 1929.) No. 3. The Scales of the Mormyrid Fishes with Remarks 

 on Albula and Elops ; by T. D. A. Cockerell. (Publication 

 1931.) Pp. 4, with 3 figures. Washington, 1910. 



Obit IT A RY. 



JoHANN Gottfried Galle, the German astronomer and the 

 first observer of the planet Neptune, died at Potsdam on July 10, 

 at the age of ninety-eight years. 



Dr. Charles Abiathar White, the geologist, died at his home 

 in Washington on June 29, at the age of eighty-four years. He 

 was professor of Natural History in the University of Iowa 

 from 1867-73, and in Bowdoin College from 1873-75. He was 

 also State Geologist of Iowa from 1866-70, and was connected 

 as geologist and paleontologist with the U. S. Government Sur- 

 veys from 1874-92 ; he was also actively associated with the 

 Smithsonian Institution and the U. S. National Museum. His 

 original contributions to geology and paleontology were numer- 

 ous and important. 



