328 Scientific Intelligence. 



ing Equatorial Observations, 1898-1907, pp. lxvii, 888. Also 

 Appendix I. Miscellaneous Astronomical Papers ; by Members 

 of the Naval Observatory Staff ; pp. 152. Appendix IT. Miscel- 

 laneous Reports on the Transit of Mercury of November 10, 189 I ; 

 pp. 43. Appendix III. List of Publications issued by the U. S. 

 Naval Observatory, 1845-1908, by Wm, D. Horigan, Librarian ; 

 pp. 36. 



Volume VII. Pp. xlvii, 558. Catalogue of 23521 Stars be- 

 tween 13° 35' and 45° 25 South declination for the Equinox 1850 ; 

 from zone observations made at the IT. S. Naval Observatory, 

 1846-IS52. Compiled by W. S. Eichelberger and F. B. Littell. 



7. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University 

 of Pittsburgh. — The following have recently been issued : 

 Volume II. No. 11. On the Photographic Spectrum of ft Lyra? ; 

 by R. H. Curtiss ; pp. 73-120. No. 12. The Radial Velocities 

 of Twenty-six Stars; by Frank C. Jordan; pp. 121-124. 

 No. 13. On the Radial Velocity of R Lyrae; by Zaccheus 

 Daniel ; pp. 125-26. 



8. British Association for the Advancement of Science. — The 

 annual meeting of the British Association was held at Portsmouth 

 during the first week of September. Sir William Ramsay was 

 President, and his address on the ancient and modern views 

 regarding the chemical elements was full of interest. The meet- 

 ing of 1912 will be held at Dundee, with Professor E. A. Schafer 

 as President, and that of 1913 at Birmingham. 



9. Annual Heport of the Board of /Scientific Advice for India 

 for the Tear 1909, 1910. Pp. 210. Calcutta, 1911.— the Board 

 of Scientific Advice for India includes, in addition to the Presi- 

 dent, Hon. E. D. Maclagan, Secretary to the Government, ten 

 gentlemen who are the respective heads of the prominent scien- 

 tific departments of the country, as the Superintendents of the 

 Museum and of the Trigonometrical Surveys, the Inspector- 

 Generals of Agriculture and of Forests, the Directors of the Geo- 

 logical and of the Botanical Surveys, etc. This volume gives an 

 interesting account in very concise form of the results accom- 

 plished in the many lines of scientific work carried forward by 

 the Indian Government during the year. 



10. Seismological Society of America. — Number 2 of the 

 Bulletin of the Seismological Society has been issued containing 

 a series of papers, among which may be mentioned : Surface 

 measurements of earthquake displacement, by Alexander McAdie; 

 Measurements of earthquake monuments, by B. A. Baird ; Rela- 

 tions of surface geology to intensity, by J. C. Branner ; The 

 earthquake of Southeastern Maine (March 21, 1904), by Harry 

 Fielding Reid ; The observation of earthquakes, by H. O. Wood ; 

 Shocks recorded at Ann Arbor during 1910, by W. J. Hussey ; 

 A boundary line deflection, by R. B. Symington. 



