330 Scientific Intelligence. 



(R. Comitato talassografico Italiano) actively continued. The 

 latest sendings include the semi-monthly bulletins for 1916 and 

 a series of memoirs chiefly on biological subjects bearing the 

 dates of 1916 and 1917. 



A special volume (Memoir XXI) by Giovanni Magbini is 

 included; this appears both in Italian and in English, and 

 describes the Scope and Activities of the Committee, the work 

 of which was begun in 1910. The fields of research open to it 

 are given as: (1) the physiology and chemistry of the sea; (2) 

 the biology of salt water; (3) the exploring of the upper air. 

 This general volume describes in detail, with numerous illustra- 

 tions, the Institute of Marine Biology in Messina; the various 

 cruises in the Adriatic; the researches carried on, both oceano- 

 graphic and atmospheric. Of the publications issued by the 

 Committee, or now in preparation, 3 monographs are mentioned 

 and 56 memoirs, besides the bulletins. It is not without interest, 

 in view of the occurrences in the latter part of 1917, that all the 

 volumes received are dated from Venice. 



5. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh. — The following has been recently received : 



Vol. 4, No. 1. Photographic Determinations of the Parallaxes 

 of Fifty Stars with the Thaw Refractor; by Prank Schles- 

 inger. Pp. 67. Also title page and contents of Volume 3. 



6. Publications of the Cincinnati Observatory. — No. 18. Pp. 

 113, 4to. Cincinnati, 1917 (published by authority of the Board 

 of Directors of the University). — This publication is Part III of 

 the Catalogue of Proper Motion Stars; by Jermain G. Porter, 

 Director, E. I. Yowell, first astronomer, Elliott Smith, sec- 

 ond astronomer. 



7. Third Melbourne General Catalogue of 3068 Stars for the 

 Equinox 1890. Pp. 77, 4to. Melbourne, 1917.— The Second 

 Melbourne General Catalogue of 1,211 stars for the Equinox of 

 1880 was published in 1889. The MS. of the present catalogue 

 was prepared fifteen years ago. The observations were made at 

 Melbourne Observatory from 1884-7 to 1894-0 under the direc- 

 tion of R. L. J. Ellery, Government Astronomer to 1895. The 

 present volume has been revised and prepared for the press 

 under the direction of Pietro Baracchi, Government Astrono- 

 mer, 1895-1915. 



