Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 293 



liis many years of investigation whereby for the first time the 

 spectrum classification, distances, absolute magnitudes, velocities, 

 and directions of motion in space of nearly 2,000 stars are fully 

 known, so that a new far-reaching view of the arrangement of 

 the stellar system appears. 



A large attendance is anticipated and the Home Secretary, 

 Dr. C. G. Abbot, has already called for a list of papers, from 

 those of 10 minutes in length to others embracing 15 to 30 

 minutes. 



14. Observatory PiihUcations. — Recent acquisitions include 

 the following : 



The Annual Report of the Naval Observatory for the fiscal year 

 :[920. — This forms appendix No. II to the annual report of the 

 Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. 



Washburn Observatory of the University of Wisconsin, volume 

 13, part 1; by Albert S. Flint, Astronomer. — This important 

 work contains meridian observations for stellar parallax, from 

 1898 to 1905. These were conducted by the method of meridian 

 transits similar to those of volume 11 of the observatory, with 

 some minor changes in conditions. Twelve students were 

 employed in the computations, chiefly graduates and under- 

 graduates. The list of stars observed extends from — 35 degrees 

 in declination to the Pole. 



Leander McCormick Observatory of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, volume III — Parallaxes of 260 Stars, by S. A. Mitchell. 



Publications of the Yerkes Observatory, volume IV, part III. — 

 Parallaxes of fifty-two stars ; by Georges Van Biesbroeck and 

 Mrs. Hannah Steele Pettit. 



Contributions from the Princeton University Observatory, 

 No. 5. — Photometric researches : the eclipsing variable, U Cephei ; 

 by Eaymond Smith Dugan. 



15. A Laboratory Manual of Anthropometry ; by Harris H. 

 Wilder, professor of zoology at Smith College, Northampton, 

 Mass. Pp. 200, 43 illustrations. Philadelphia, 1920 (P. Blakis- 

 ton's Sons & Co.). — In order that the records of each observer 

 may be readily made use of by every other observer, it is impera- 

 tive that series of measures be uniform and be taken in uniform 

 ways. The matter of unification was first placed upon an inter- 

 national basis by the International Congress of Anthropologists 

 held at Monaco in 1906. The unification process was carried still 

 further at the Geneva Congress in 1912. There remain for con- 

 sideration at some future Congress the general skeletal measures, 

 exclusive of the cranium and lower jaw. 



The work of the special International Commissions of the two 

 Congresses rightly forms the basis of Wilder 's Laboratory Man- 

 ual. However his statement on page vi of the preface, that the 

 periodicals in which the reports of the labors of the two Com- 

 missions ''appeared were exclusively European" is incorrect; 

 for report from the reviewer's pen of the work accomplished at 

 Geneva appeared both in the American Anthropologist and in 

 Science for the year 1912. 



