108 Scientific Intelligence. 



9. Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British 

 Museum {Natural History). Vol. II Artiodactyla ; by R. 

 Lypekker assisted by Gilbert Blaine. Pp. xvi, 295 ; 33 figs. 

 London, 1914. — This second volume deals with a considerable por- 

 tion of the African antelopes, including the Bovidse subfamilies 

 Bubalinse to Reduncinae ; the remainder, embracing the Gazelles, 

 the Prongbuck, the Giraffes and the Okapi, are reserved for a 

 third volume. 



10. Field Museum of Natural History. Annual Report of 

 the Director, Dr. Frederick J. V. Skiff, to the Board of l y rus- 

 tees for the year 1913. Publication 173. Vol. IV, No. 4, pp. 275- 

 363. Chicago, 1914.— The work of the Field Museum during 

 the past year has been largely in the way of preparation of mat- 

 erial for exhibition in the new building. This has been carried 

 on so rapidly that the present quarters are now much over-crowded 

 with the installations that have been made. The cost of main- 

 tenance amounted to $170,000 and the total expended was $237,000, 

 about the same as that of the preceding year. Numerous addi- 

 tions have been made, both to the collections and to the library, 

 and among other points may be mentioned the reinstallation of 

 the meteorites with the incorporation of some 1600 specimens of 

 the unique Ward-Coonley collection. The total number of 

 visitors for the year was upwards of 214,000, and the outside 

 work of the institution is also shown in a variety of public lec- 

 ture courses. In addition to the museum work at home, the 

 Joseph N. Field Ethnological Expedition to the South Seas, 

 under Dr. Lewis, has now concluded its three years' studies and 

 collections, while the South American Zoological Expedition is 

 still in the field, and is yielding important results. A collection 

 of 24.000 birds' eggs has been left by the will of the Hon. R. M. 

 Barnes. 



The following publication has been recently issued: No. 172, 

 Botanical Series, Vol. II, no. 9. I. The Genera Pedilanthus and 

 Cubanthus, and other American Euphorbiacese ; by Charles 

 F. Millspaugh. II. Two New Stonecrops from Guatemala ; 

 by Raymond Hamet. Pp. 353-381. 



11. International Kongress fur Vererbungs- und Zuchtungs- 

 forschung. — At the last Congress held in Paris, it was decided 

 by the International Committee that the next — the fifth — should 

 later place at Berlin in 1916 in the early part of September. 

 The members of the Committee have already been announced and 

 the committee's address is Invalidenstrasse 42, Kgl. Landwirtsch. 

 Hochschule, Berlin, N4., Germany. 



Der Menseh und seine Kultnr : Neue Ausblicke auf ihre Entwicklung ; 

 von Neophilosophos Tis. Pp. 100. Konstanz, 1912 (Verlag vou Ernst 

 Ackermann). 



