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the generosity of Mr. John A. Roebling, funds have been provided 

 for the removal of the Chile Station to a mountain above its for- 

 mer location, thus giving a clear atmosphere, and, in addition, for 

 a building on the Harqua Hala Mts. in Arizona. 



Separate volumes, received recently, are the following : 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the year ending June 30, 1918. Pp. 612, with 54 

 plates. The report of the Secretary, herein contained, has been 

 already noticed. 



Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States 

 National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1919. Pp. 211, 

 with 7 plates. 



Several Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



2. PuUications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh; Frank Schlesinger, director. — Publica- 

 tions recently received are as follows: Nos. 2-5 of volume 4 

 (1919) containing photographic determinations of the parallaxes 

 of 135 stars with the Thaw refractor (185 stars for the entire 

 volume). Also Nos. 1-5 of volume 5 on the same subject. Nos. 

 1-3 of volume 6 are on the following subjects : the irregularities 

 in refraction (1) ; the effect of atmospheric dispersion on photo- 

 graphs taken with the Thaw telescope (2) ; solar and terrestrial 

 absorption in the sun's spectrum from 6500 A to 9000 A (3). 



Obituary. 



Dr. Max ]\LiRGULES, formerly of the Austrian Meteorological 

 Service, died on October 4 at the age of sixty-four years. 



Dr. Karl Hermann Struve, in 1895 made professor of astron- 

 omy at Konigsberg and later director of the Berlin-Babelsberg ob- 

 servatory, died on August 12 at the age of sixty-six years. 



Professor Yves Delage, the eminent French zoologist, died on 

 October 8 at the age of sixty-six years. 



