Miscellaneous Intelligence. 667 



M. A. Howe : Fossil calcareous Algae from the Panama Canal Zone with 

 reference to reef-building Algse. 



A. B. Stout ; Sterility in plants and its inheritance. 



J. N. Rose : Recent explorations in the cactus deserts of South America. 



G. H. Shull : Some factors affecting the inheritance ratios in Shepherd's 

 Purse. 



H. M. Richards : The respiratory ratio of cacti in relation to their acidity. 



R. A. Harper : Some studies in morphogenesis. 



H. S. Jennings : Can we observe organic evolution in progress ? 



J. M. Coulter : Orthogenesis in plants. 



T. W. Richards: Investigations recently conducted in the Wolcott Gibbs 

 Memorial Laboratory. 



B. B. Boltwood : The life of Radium. 



G. C Abbot : The solar radiation and its variability. 



A. G. Webster : Experiments and theory of conical horns. Instruments 

 for measurements of sound. An instrument for finding the direction of a 

 fog-signal. 



E. C. Pickering : The new Draper Catalogue. 



H. N. Russell : On the Albedo of the Moon and Planets. 



G. F. Becker : A possible origin for some spiral nebulae. 



L. A. Bauer : Concomitant changes in the Earth's magnetism and solar 

 radiation. 



Fred E. Wright and J. C. Hostetter : Experiments on the mean free 

 path of gases. Observations on Wood's one-dimensional gas. 



James Kendall : The water correction in conductivity determinations. 



H. F. Osborn: Extremes of adaptation in the carnivorous dinosaurs, Tyran- 

 nosaurus and Ornithomimus. 



C. K. Leith : The influence of certain minerals on the development of 

 schists and gneisses. 



W. M. Davis : Glacial sculpture of the Mission Range, Montana. 

 Waldemar Lindgren : Crystallization of quartz veins. 

 G. P. Mekrill : The minor constituents of meteorites. 

 E. W. Hilgard : A peculiar clay from near the City of Mexico. 

 A. G. Mayer and R. S. Woodward : The biography of Alfred Marshall 

 Mayer. 



2. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 

 XII, Part II, Second Memoir. Quarto, pp. 94, with 61 plates. 

 Washington, 1915. — Tins volume is devoted to an exhaustive and 

 fully illustrated discussion by Chas. C. Adams of "The varia- 

 tions and ecological distribution of the snails of the genus Io." 



3. The Craniometry of the Southern New England Indians ; 

 by Vera Marian Knight, A.M., with an introduction by Harris 

 Hawthorne Wilder, Ph.D., Smith College Anthropological 

 Laboratory. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, vol. IV, pp. 36, 10 pis., 2 tables. New Haven, 1915. — 

 There is a lamentable dearth of published data concerning the 

 osteology of the American Indians. Skeletal remains of the abo- 

 rigines stored in many museums are, for the most part, unstudied. 

 Very few reports of American archeologieal investigations have 

 included adequate accounts of the osteological material found. 

 Practically the only studies of long series of American crania 

 available for comparative purposes were made when anthropology 

 was in its infancy in this country and are now more or less out 

 of date. 



Miss Knight's contribution to the craniometry of the New Eng- 

 land Indians is, therefore, very welcome. The author has omitted 



