840 St •h-n i / 1/< ■ I a telligmce. 



three pensioners died during the year. It is interesting to note 

 that two institutions not included in the Carnegie list have under- 

 taken to provide a pension fund for themselves. 



The Second Part of the Report is devoted to an interesting 

 discussion of the relations of colleges to the secondary schools. 

 The difficulty of bringing the high school and the college into 

 close relations is one that has been felt for many years, and the 

 importance of it is especially recognized at the present time. Dr. 

 Pritchett takes up the various points involved, and indicates 

 what he would regard as a promising method of removing the 

 difficulty. The closing pages of the Report are devoted to brief 

 obituary notices of the teachers who have died during the past 

 year. 



2. A Text-Book of General Bacteriology ; by Edwin O. 

 Jordan, Ph.D. Second revised edition, pp. 594, illustrated. 

 Philadelphia and London, 1910 (W. B. Saunders Company). — 

 While the book is adapted primarily to the needs of students of 

 medicine, it is general in its scope, as indicated by the following 

 subjects treated : Methods of studying bacteria, their structure 

 and development ; effects of physical and chemical agents, effects 

 produced by bacterial growth, the relations of bacteria to dis- 

 eases of animals and plants, bacteria in milk, air, soil, water, etc., 

 their importance in the arts and industries, and other topics. A 

 good bibliography is given. 



The subject matter is presented clearly, the illustrations are 

 good, and the book should be of much value to students of gen- 

 eral bacteriology. L. f. r. 



•3. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalcencn in the British 

 Museum, by Sir George F. Hampson. Volume X. The JVoc- 

 tuidee. Pp. xix, 829, 214 figures. — The tenth volume of the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Moths, earlier parts of which have been 

 repeatedly noticed in this Journal, has recently appeared. It is 

 devoted to the Noctuid subfamily Erastrianae. This is represented 

 here by 1222 species belonging to 136 genera. This sub-family 

 is largely confined to the more arid districts of tropical and warm 

 temperate regions, and has few species in the colder zones. The 

 plates belonging to this volume are promised at an early date. 



Mieanique Sociale ; par Spiru C Haret. Pp. 256. Paris (Gatvthier- 

 Villars) ; Bucarest (Ch. Gobi), 1910. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Henry Pickering Bowditch, Professor of Physiology in 

 Harvard University, died on March 13 at the age of seventy-one 

 years. 



Professor. J. H. van't Hoff, the distinguished Professor of 

 Physical Chemistry at the University of Berlin, died on Febru- 

 ary 1 in his fifth-ninth year. 



Professor Julius Wiliiet.m Brui-il, the German chemist, died 

 at Heidelberg on February 5 at the age of sixty years. 



