Miscellaneous Intelligence. 295 



meeting of next year will be held at Portsmouth with Sir William 

 Ramsay as president, and Dundee has been appointed as the place 

 of meeting in 1912. In 1914 the Association will meet in Australia. 



2. Carnegie Institution of Washington. — Recent publications 

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

 tinued from p. 94). 



No. 53. Egyptological Researches. Vol. II. Results of a 

 Journey in 1906 ; by W. Max Muller. Pp. v, 188, 47 plates. 



No. 109. Medus£e of the World ; by Alfred Golusborough 

 Maykr. Vol. I. The Hydromedusae. Pp. 230, xv ; 29 plates, 

 119 figures. Vol. II. The Ilydromedusfe. Pp. 231-498, xv ; 

 figures 120-327, plates 30-55. Vol. III. The Scyphomedusas. 

 Pp. iv, 499-735 ; figures 328-428, plates 56-76. 



No. 122. Determinate Evolution in the Color Pattern of the 

 Lady-Beetles; by Rosv^^ell H. Johnson. Pp. iv, 104, 92 figures. 



No. 124. List of Documents in Spanish Archives relating to 

 the History of the United States, which have been printed or of 

 which transcripts are preserved in American Libraries ; by 

 James Alexander Robertson. Pp. xv, 368. 



No. 126. The Metabolism and Energy Transformations of 

 Healthy Man During Rest ; by Francis G. Benedict and 

 Thorne M. Carpenter. Pp. viii, 255. 



No. 129. The Conditions of Parasitism in Plants; by D. T. 

 MacDougal and W. A. Cannon. Pp. iii, 60, 2 figures, 10 

 plates. 



3. les Theories 31odernes du Soliel ; par J. Bosler, Astronome 

 a I'Observatoire de Meudon. Pp. 382. Paris (Encyclopodie 

 Scientifique, Octave Doin). — This volume deserves notice not 

 merely for its individual excellence, great as that is, but still 

 more because of its place in the series of volumes constituting the 

 Encyclopedic Scientifique, which has already been noticed in this 

 Journal in connection with another volume in the same subdivi- 

 sion of this great enterprise. 



This is a handy volume Encyclopedia in numbers of pocket 

 size aggregating eventually some 1000 volumes classified in 40 

 divisions or libraries, each library in charge of a specialist and 

 comprising 20 to 30 volumes. 



The number under review is the third of the set of 27 belong- 

 ing to the library of Astronomy and Celestial Physics and is 

 compiled by Bosler, astronomer of the observatory of Meudon, 

 among the foremost of observatories in solar research since pho- 

 tography and the spectroscope have been available to unveil 

 solar mysteries. 



The work is as judicious and authoritative as its source would 

 lead us to expect, and is written with the clearness and precision 

 for which French scientists are preeminent. 



The subdivision of this encyclopedia into 1000 volumes is Avith 

 a view to continual revision as the progress of science requires, 

 nowhere more necessary than in the science of solar physics, con- 

 structed as it is from the residuum of numberless evanescent 

 guesses. w. b. 



