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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  students 
  unfamiliar 
  with 
  Australian 
  geology 
  are 
  the 
  descriptions 
  

   of 
  the 
  Permo-Carboniferous 
  tillites 
  and 
  glacial 
  deposits 
  of 
  earlier 
  

   age 
  placed 
  by 
  Howchin 
  in 
  the 
  Cambrian. 
  In 
  the 
  preparation 
  

   of 
  the 
  book 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  Australian 
  Survey 
  and 
  of 
  

   individual 
  investigators 
  is 
  utilized; 
  but 
  the 
  major 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   text 
  is 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  field 
  and 
  class-room 
  work 
  carried 
  on 
  for 
  

   30 
  years 
  by 
  the 
  distinguished 
  author. 
  h. 
  e. 
  g. 
  

  

  7. 
  Eighth 
  Biennial 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Commissioners 
  of 
  the 
  Geo- 
  

   logical 
  and 
  Natural 
  History 
  Survey 
  of 
  Connecticut, 
  1917-1918; 
  

   by 
  Herbert 
  E. 
  Gregory, 
  Superintendent. 
  Bulletin 
  28, 
  21 
  pp., 
  

   1919. 
  — 
  During 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  the 
  war 
  the 
  Connecticut 
  Survey 
  

   has 
  devoted 
  its 
  energies 
  chiefly 
  to 
  military 
  mapping, 
  study 
  of 
  

   water 
  supplies, 
  and 
  similar 
  investigations 
  in 
  co-operation 
  with 
  

   the 
  Federal 
  Government. 
  To 
  save 
  appropriations 
  only 
  one 
  

   report 
  — 
  Arthrostraca 
  of 
  Connecticut, 
  by 
  B. 
  W. 
  Kunkel 
  — 
  has 
  been 
  

   sent 
  to 
  press. 
  The 
  work 
  planned 
  for 
  the 
  biennium 
  1919-1920 
  

   includes 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  ecology 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  an 
  investigation 
  of 
  

   contamination 
  of 
  waters 
  along 
  the 
  shore 
  of 
  Long 
  Island 
  Sound, 
  

   mapping 
  of 
  areas 
  of 
  metamorphic 
  rock, 
  and 
  preparation 
  of 
  edu- 
  

   cational 
  bulletins. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  William 
  Watson, 
  professor 
  of 
  physics 
  in 
  the 
  Imperial 
  College 
  

   of 
  Science 
  and 
  Technology 
  in 
  London 
  and 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  a 
  well- 
  

   known 
  text-book 
  of 
  physics, 
  died 
  on 
  March 
  3 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  fifty 
  

   years. 
  Previous 
  to 
  the 
  war 
  he 
  had 
  carried 
  on 
  important 
  

   researches 
  in 
  magnetism, 
  in 
  color-vision 
  and 
  other 
  fields. 
  In 
  

   1915 
  he 
  was 
  made 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  Central 
  Laboratory, 
  B. 
  E. 
  F., 
  

   which 
  had 
  as 
  its 
  object 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  methods 
  for 
  combating 
  

   <zas 
  at 
  lacks 
  in 
  the 
  war; 
  his 
  early 
  death 
  is 
  ascribed 
  to 
  the 
  effects 
  

   of 
  the 
  hazardous 
  work 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  employed. 
  

  

  Ludwig 
  Sylow, 
  the 
  eminent 
  Norwegian 
  mathematician, 
  died 
  

   in 
  September 
  last 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  eighty 
  -five 
  years. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Wallace 
  Clement 
  Ware 
  Sabine, 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  

   Physics 
  in 
  Harvard 
  University 
  from 
  1895, 
  professor 
  since 
  1905 
  

   and 
  (l<an 
  of 
  the 
  Graduate 
  School 
  of 
  Applied 
  Science, 
  died 
  

   recently 
  in 
  his 
  fifty-first 
  year. 
  His 
  death 
  was 
  indirectly 
  the 
  

   rrsull 
  of 
  his 
  self-sacrificing 
  labors 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  recent 
  

   war, 
  both 
  in 
  Prance 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  country. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Herbert 
  Huntington 
  Smith, 
  the 
  naturalist, 
  Curator 
  of 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Alabama, 
  died 
  suddenly 
  on 
  

   March 
  22 
  a1 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  sixty-eight 
  years. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  George 
  Ferdinand 
  Becker, 
  for 
  forty 
  years 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  

   the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  Stales 
  Geological 
  Survey, 
  died 
  on 
  April 
  

   20 
  al 
  I 
  he 
  age 
  of 
  seventy-two 
  years. 
  A 
  notice 
  is 
  deferred 
  to 
  a 
  

   Later 
  number. 
  

  

  