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III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The National Academy of Sciences. — The regular autumn 

 meeting of the National Academy was held at Princeton Uni- 

 versity, Princeton, New Jersey, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 November 16 and 17. The meeting was largly attended and 

 upwards of forty papers were presented for reading. In addi- 

 tion to the last-named, a complimentary lecture was delivered by 

 W. M. Davis on the " Lessons from the Grand Canyon." There 

 was also on Tuesday an excursion to the Rockefeller Institute 

 (department of Animal Pathology) . The social side of the meet- 

 ing was well cared for: this included a reception by President 

 and Mrs. Hibben on, Tuesday evening and a subscription dinner 

 of the Academy on Wednesday evening. 



2. Publications of Carnegie Institution of Washington.— Re- 

 cent publications of the Carnegie Institution are noted in the 

 following list. (See earlier, vol. 49, pp. 224, 387.) 



No. 161. Periodic orbits ; by F. R. Moulton, in collaboration 

 with Daniel Buchanan, Thomas Buck, F. L. Griffin, W. R. 

 Longley, and W. D. MacMillan. Quarto, pp. xlii, 524. 



No. 219. The Inscriptions at Cop'an; by S. G. Morley. 

 Quarto, pp. xii, 643 ; with frontispiece, 33 pis. and 91 figs. 



No. 248. The Cactaceas: Descriptions and illustrations of 

 plants of the Cactus Family ; by N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose. 

 Volume II. Quarto, pp. vii, 239, 40 pi. and 305 figs.— To be 

 noticed later; see also vol. 49, p. 222. 



No. 256. History of the theory of numbers. Volume II, 

 Diophantine Analysis; by Leonard E. Dickson. Pp. xxv, 803. 



No. 294. Studies in the development of Crinoids; by Th. 

 Mortensen (Copenhagen). Quarto, pp. v, 94; 28 plates. Vol. 

 16, of papers from the Department of Marine Biology. 



No. 296. Heredity and social fitness : A study of differential 

 mating in a Pennsylvania family ; by Wilhelmine E. Key. Pp. 

 101. No. 32 of papers from the Station for Experimental Evolu- 

 tion at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



3. The National Research Council. — It is announced that a 

 site for the new building in Washington, which is to serve as a 

 home for the National Academy of Sciences and the National 

 Research Council, has recently been obtained. It comprises the 

 entire block bounded by B and C Streets and Twenty-first and 

 Twenty-second Streets, Northwest, and it faces the Lincoln 

 Memorial in Potomac Park. The Academy and Council have 

 been enabled to secure this admirable site, costing about $200,000, 

 through the generosity of a number of friends and supporters. 

 Funds for the erection of the building have been provided by the 

 Carnegie Corporation of New York. 



4. Recent Publications of the British Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. — We have recently received the Supplement, volume II, 



