96 Scientific Intelligence. 



of Fish and Fisheries was started in 18*70 with a grant of $100 

 and the use of the sloop yacht "Mazeppa, " loaned by the New 

 Bedford Custom House. 



It is interesting to note that this biography of a great and sym- 

 pathetic man is written by one who has himself given fifty years 

 to the public service in science. c. s. 



5. Publications of the British Museum of Natural History. — 

 The following volumes have recently been issued (see vol. xxxix, 

 p. 325 and earlier). 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaense in the British Museum. 

 Supplement. Volume I. Plates I-XLI. — This volume of plates, 

 admirable in its execution both as to drawing and reproduction, 

 belongs to the volume of text already noticed (1. a). 



A Revision of the Ichneumonidse with descriptions of new 

 genera and species. Part IV. Tribes Joppides, Banchides and 

 Alomyides; by Claude Morley. Pp. xii, 167. — This third part 

 of the revision of the Ichneumonidse by Mr. Morley embraces 

 three additional families. A colored plate of Joppa nominator, 

 by Mr. Robert Stenton, accompanies the volume. 



The Syrphidse of the Ethiopian Region, with descriptions of 

 new genera and species; by Professor Mario Bezzi. Pp. 146; 

 28 figs. — The collections of African Syrphidse in the British 

 Museum, received from the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, are 

 remarkabty rich and complete; they form the basis of this study 

 by Prof. Bezzi. Some sixty new forms are described, making the 

 whole number of species from this region 249; the family num- 

 bers some 2300 species, distributed over all parts of the world. 



Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1914; 

 by S. F. Harmer. Pp. 16, 4to; 1 text fig., 3 maps. — It is remark- 

 able how many stranded whales are recorded from the shores of 

 Great Britain. In 1914, up to August, some 43 had been nuted; 

 after that date the record was largely interrupted by the war. 

 Of the total number of Cetaceans noted the larger part could be 

 definitely determined as to species. 



Instructions for Collectors : No. 12. Worms. Pp.23; 17 figs. 

 — The instructions contained in this pamphlet have been drawn 

 up by Mr. H. A. Baylis, assistant in the department of zoology. 



6. The Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts 

 and /Sciences. — It has been recently announced that the Rumford 

 medal of the American Academy has been awarded to Dr. Charles 

 G. Abbot, director of the Astro-physical observatory of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. This medal, established through a donation 

 from Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), in 1796, to the 

 Academy, is annually given for researches in light and heat. 



Obituary. 



Sir Arthur Herbert Church, the veteran English chemist 

 and mineralogist, died on June 2 at the age of eighty-one years. 



Dr. Hugo Muller, president at one time of the London Chem- 

 ical Society, died on May 23 at the age of eighty-one years. 



Dr. Aksel S. Steen, director of the Norwegian Meteorological 

 Institute, died on May 10 at the age of sixty-six years. 



