236 Scientific Intelligence. 



3. Marriage^ Totemism and Religion : An Answer to Critics; 

 by the Right Hon. Lord Avbbury. Pp. ix, 243. London 

 ami New York, 1911 (Longmans, Green and Co.). — The present 

 volume is based on a work by the same author on the "Origin of 

 Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man." This was 

 delivered in lectures at the Royal Institution in 186S and pub- 

 lished in 1870. The special topics here discussed deal with the 

 absence of marriage with primitive man, its origin and evolution ; 

 also totemism, witchcraft, magic, and religion. The author pre- 

 sents his views clearly, handling with vigor the criticisms which 

 have been offered since the publication of his first work. 



4. Smithsonian Physical Tables. Fifth revised Edition; 

 prepared by F. E. Fowle. (Publication 1944.) Pp. xxxiv, 318, 

 with 335 tables and an index. Washington, 1910. Smithsonian 

 Misc. Collections, vol. 58, No. 1. Publication 1944. — This is a 

 radical revision of the physical tables compiled by Prof. Thomas 

 Gray in 1896, embodying recent data and with many additions. 

 There are now four independent series of Smithsonian tables 

 occupying independent fields ; viz., meterological, geographical, 

 physical, and mathematical. 



5. Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin. — The program in 

 regard to the Vallauri prizes of the Royal Turin Academy 

 announces that prizes will be given : (1) for the best critical 

 work on Latin literature appearing between Jan. 1, 1911, and 

 Dec. 31, 1914; and (2) for the most important and extensive 

 work in the physical sciences published between Jan. 1, 1915, and 

 Dec. 31, 1918. Each prize amounts to 26,000 Italian livres ; the 

 awards will be made without regard to nationality. 



6. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Plialwnai in the British 

 Museum. Volume x. Plates cxlviii-clxxii. London, 1911. — 

 This volume, continuing the excellent plates illustrating the Pha- 

 aenae of the British Museum, has recently appeared. 



7. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. — Bulletin 43. The following publications have recently 

 appeared : Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and 

 adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico; by John R. Swanton. 

 Pp. vii, 387 ; 32 plates, 2 figures. 



Bulletin 50. Preliminary Report on a Visit to the Navajo 

 National Monument, Arizona; by Jessk Walter Fewkes. Pp. 

 vii, 35 ; 22 plates, 3 figures. 



8. The Sarawak Museum Journal. Issued by the Sarawak 

 Museum under the Authority of His Highness the Rajah. Vol. I, 

 No. 1. Pp. 201. Sarawak, February, 1911. — This first number 

 of the Journal issued by the Sarawak Museum contains, in addi- 

 tion to a series of papers on ethnological subjects, three others on 

 insects and also a list of Sarawak minerals by J. S. Geikie. 



9. Rhodesia Museum. Eighth Annual Report. Pp. 36. Bula- 

 Avayo, 1909. — This report is accompanied by three appendices on 

 the gold-bearing rocks, the minerals, and the batrachians and 

 reptiles of Rhodesia. 



