72 Scientific Intelligence. 



Fletcher, who, for many years, has been carrying on these 

 studies under relations which allowed of intimate knowledge of 

 the Indians and their life. As joint author, a member of the 

 tribe, Francis La Flesche, has been associated. The ceremonies 

 and customs of the tribe are given with much fulness, and thus 

 we gain a representation of the people as they existed during the 

 earlier part of the last century. The value of the work is much 

 increased from the fact that it is based upon the original material 

 gathered directly from the natives themselves. 



The Bureau has also published the following Bulletins : 



No. 44. Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America ; 

 by Cyrus Thomas assisted by John R. S wanton. Pp. vii, 108, 

 with Linguistic map of Mexico and Central America. 



No. 51. Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff 

 Palace ; by Jesse W. Fewkes. Pp. 82 ; 35 plates, 4 figures. 



8. Appleton's Scientific Primers. Edited by J. Reynolds 

 Green. — This series of science primers includes the following : 

 Chemistry by W. A. Tilden ; Biology by R. J. Harvey Gibson ; 

 Botany by J. Reynolds Green ; Geology by J. W. Gregory. 

 These little volumes have been prepared for a reader having no 

 previous knowledge of the various subjects, and although very 

 brief and elementary in character, the effort has been to present 

 the subjects from the modern standpoint. It is suggested that 

 the Chemistry Primer should be taken up first, to be followed by 

 that on Biology, and then the more special subjects of Botany 

 and Geology. 



«> 

 Obituary. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the eminent English botanist, 

 died on December 1 1 in the ninety-fifth year of his age. Born 

 in. 181 7, he accompanied, when only twenty-one, the expedition 

 of Sir James Ross to the Antarctic as assistant-surgeon on board 

 the Erebus. In 1847 he traveled extensively in the Himalayas 

 investigating the flora of the region, and later he made other 

 botanical expeditions to the East. In 1855 he was made assistant 

 director of the Kew Gardens and ten years later he became 

 Director, succeeding in that position his father, Sir William 

 Hooker. His contributions to botany, in the development of 

 the Kew Gardens as well as in the results of his original dis- 

 coveries and investigations, have given him a rare position in 

 English science. 



Professor George Davison, for thirty years head of the United 

 State Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Pacific coast and Pro- 

 fessor emeritus in the University of California, died early in 

 December at the age of eighty-six years. 



Dr. William Sutherland, well known through his work in 

 molecular physics, died at Melbourne on October 4 at the age of 

 fifty-two years. 



Professor Giorgio Spezia, the Italian geologist, died at Turin 

 on November 10. 



