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No. S8. Dynamic Meteorology and Hydrography ; by V. 

 B.tkrknes and different collaborators. Part I, Statics by V. 

 B.ikrknes and J. W. Sanostrom. Pp. 146 and appendixes, 31 

 figures. 



No. 119. Determination of the Solar Parallax, from photo- 

 graphs of Eros made with the Crossley Reflector of the Lick 

 Observatory, University of California ; by Charles D. Perrine, 

 Harold K. Palmer, Frederic C. Moore, Adelaide M. Hoije. 

 Pp. 98. See p. 153. 



No. 120. The Symmetric Function Tables of the Fifteenthic 

 including an Historical Summary of Symmetric Functions as relat- 

 ing to Symmetric Function Tables ; by Floyd Fiske Decker. 

 Pp. 1 6, 5 large tables. 



No. 127. Superheated Steam in Locomotive Service ; by 

 William F. M. Goss. Pp. 144, 1 plate, 108 figures. 



No. 130. A Study of the Absorption Spectra of Solutions of 

 Certain Salts of Potassium, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Chromium, 

 Erbium, Proseodymium, Neodymium, and Uranium as affected 

 by Chemical Agents and by Temperature ; by Harry C. Jones 

 and W. W. Strong. Pp. ix, 159, 98 plates. 



No. 132. Department of Marine Biology, Alfred 6. Mayer, 

 Director. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory. Volume I IT, 

 pp. 1-152, 17 plates, 38 figures. Contains twelve papers by dif- 

 ferent authors. 



No. 133. Department of Marine Biology, Alfred G. Mayer, 

 Director. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory. Volume IV, 

 pp. 1-186, 43 plates, 17 figures. Contains three papers by Henry 

 S. Pratt, Edwin Linton and T. W. Vaughan. Pp. 185. 



No. 135. Researches upon the Atomic Weights of Cadmium, 

 Manganese, Bromine, Lead, Arsenic, Iodine, Silver, Chromium, 

 and Phosphorus ; by Gregory Paul Baxter, in collaboration 

 with M. A. Hines, H. L. Frevert, et al. 



No. 136. Metabolism in Diabetes Mellitus ; by Francis G. 

 Benedict and Elliott P. Joslin. Pp. vi, 234. 



No. 141. The Water Balance of Succulent Plants; by D. T. 

 Macdougal and E. S. Spalding. Pp. iii, 77, 8 plates. 



3. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures and 

 condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1909. 

 Pp. x, 751, 73 plates, 1 map. Washington, 1910. — The Annual 

 Volume of the Smithsonian Institution for 1909 opens with the 

 Report of the Secretary, Dr. Walcott, issued in advance about a 

 year since, and at that time noticed in this Journal (vol. xxix, 1 96). 

 It also contains, in the General Appendix (pp. 119-751), the usual 

 series of well-selected papers devoted to a wide range of subjects, 

 many of them republished from foreign journals. These papers are 

 all more or less popular in method of presentation, so that they 

 appeal to the intelligent public, which finds here a remarkable 

 resume of recent scientific progress not to be found in so con- 

 venient a form elsewhere. Among them may be mentioned ope 

 on Radio-telegraphy by J. A. Fleming ; another by Marchis on 



