670 Scientific Intelligence. 



8. The Mining World Index of Current literature. Vol. 

 vii, first half year, 1915 ; by George E. Sisley. Pp. ix, 208. 

 Chicago, 1915 (Mining World Company). — A seventh volume 

 has been added to the series of indexes, issued by the editor of 

 the Mining and Engineering World, embracing the world's 

 literature in mining, metallurgy and kindred subjects for the 

 period, January to June, 1915. 



9. les Prix Nobel en 1913. Stockholm, 1914 (P. A. Norstedt 

 & Soner). — This volume gives an account of the distribution of 

 the Nobel prizes in 1912. The recipients of the prizes were : in 

 physics, Heike K. Onnes ; in chemistry, Alfred Werner ; in 

 phj^siology and medicine, Charles Richet ; in literature, Rabin- 

 dranath Tagore. Portraits and biographical notices of these 

 gentlemen are given and also the addresses delivered by several 

 of them at the Nobel conferences on December 11. 



It may be added that, according to a recent press statement, 

 the Nobel prizes for 1915 are to be awarded as follows : in 

 chemistry, to Dr. R. Willislatter of Berlin ; in physics, to W. H. 

 Bragg and W. L. Bragg of Cambridge, England, for their 

 researches on the structure of crystals by means of Rontgen 

 rays. 



10. The leeward Islands of the Hawaiian Group; by Carl 

 Elschner. Pp. 68, 8vo, 1915. — This pamphlet contains in pri- 

 vately printed form a number of contributions to the Honolulu 

 Sunday Advertiser. It consists of observations of various kinds 

 and values on the islets, reefs, etc., stretching westward from 

 Hawaii. These observations relate to the geography, geologj", 

 fauna, flora, and especially to the chemical character of the 

 changes going on in the reefs through influences of life and the 

 resultant deposits, the latter being chiefly phosphatic. The author, 

 who is a chemist and expert in phosphates, gives a considerable 

 amount of interesting data respecting these diagenetic processes. 



L. V. I'. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Raphael Meldola, the distinguished English organic 

 chemist, died on November 16 at the age of sixty-six years. 



Professor Edward Alfred Mietchtn, the English zoologist, 

 died at Selsey on September 30 at the age of fifty-nine years. 



Dr. Theodor Albrecht, of the Royal Prussian Geodetic 

 Institute, Potsdam, died on August 31 at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



Wirt Tassin, from 1893 to 1909 chief chemist and assistant 

 curator of mineralogy in the U. S. National Museum, died on 

 November 2 in his forty- seventh year. 



