294 Scientific Intelligence. 



To the measures accepted by international agreement, the 

 author adds a convenient and useful list of general skeletal meas- 

 ures, as well as angles and indices. No mention is made of the 

 spheno-maxillary angle, which might well find a place even in an 

 abridged manual. His enumeration of instruments and descrip- 

 tion of the manner in which they are employed are done with a 

 thorough knowledge of the difficulties which beset the beginner. 

 The pages devoted to simple biometric methods were written for 

 the benefit of the student, whose chief interest is in morphological 

 relations, and whose mathematical ability and training are not 

 sufficient to enable him to follow abstruse biometric methods. 



To the laboratory student of the subject, Wilder 's Manual is 

 recommended for its lucidity and conciseness, as well as for the 

 author's ability to transmit a maximum amount of his own per- 

 vading enthusiasm for the subject by means of the printed page. 

 For good measure, two instructive appendices are added : A, 

 Measures of Skulls of 93 Indians from Southern New England; 

 B, Bodily Measures of 100 Female College Students. 



Yale University. George Gr^vnt MacCurdy. 



Obituary. 



Dr. William T. Sedgwick, professor of biology and public 

 healtli at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, authority 

 on biology and sanitation, and for a time president of the Ameri- 

 can Health Association, died suddenly on January 26. He was 

 born in West Hartford, Conn., in 1855, was graduated from Shef- 

 field Scientific School in 1877, and received the degree of Ph.D. 

 from Johns Hopkins in 1881. Among his many activities he was 

 curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston, 1897 ; he was also a mem- 

 ber of the advisory board Hygienic Laboratory, United States 

 Public Health Service, 1902, and at one time president of the 

 Boston Civil Service Reform Association. 



He was a man of charming personality and the value of his 

 services to this country from east to west, particularly in biology 

 and sanitation, can hardly be overestimated. 



Sir Lazarus Fletcher, the distinguished English mineral- 

 ogist, died in January in his sixty-seventh year. In addition to 

 his many and important contributions to his department of 

 science he was the keeper of the mineral department of the 

 British Museum for some forty years ; in this connection he had 

 the responsibility for the removal and installation of the collec- 

 tions from their early home at Bloomsbury to the new Museum 

 of Natural History in South Kensington. 



Dr. Lincoln Ware Riddle, assistant professor of cryptogamic 

 botany and associate curator of the Farlow Herbarium, died at 

 Cambridge on January 16 in his forty -first year. 



Dr. Alexander Muirhead, the British physicist, died on 

 December 13 at the age of seventy-two years. 



Frederic Houssay, professor of zoology at the Sorbonne since 

 1904, and dean in 1919, died recently in Paris. 



