296. > Scientific Intelligence. 



supply a rational basis for practical dietetics. With this end in 

 view the entire field of the nutritive phenomena — digestion, 

 absorption, metabolism — is reviewed in relation to the anatomical 

 parts of the body and physiological processes involved. The 

 chemical nature of the foodstuffs and the transformation which 

 they experience prior to their utilization by the organization are 

 discussed. From the popular standpoint — and to this the volume 

 is especially intended to contribute — the applications of the scien- 

 tific facts to correct dietary habits are presented in a form 

 acceptable to those with limited scientific training. There are 

 many elements of novelty, various unique view-points, and evi- 

 dences of the up-to-date character of the compilation everywhere. 

 The addendum of analyses of American food materials gives an 

 added practical value to the volume. l. b. m. 



4. OstwalcVs Klassiker der exacten Wissenschaften. Leipzig, 

 1911 (Wilhelm Engelmann). — The following are recent additions 

 to this valuable series of scientific classics : 



No. 181. Mechain und Delambre : Grundlagen des dezimalen 

 metrischen Systems oder Messung des Meridianbogens zwischen 

 Breiten von Dtinkirchen und Barcelona. 



Borda und Cassini : Versuche tiber die Lange des Sekunden- 

 pendels in Paris. In Auswahl tibersetzt und herausgegeben ; von 

 Dr. Walter Block. Pp. 200. 



No. 182. Vollstandigere Theorie der Maschinen, die durch 

 Reaktion des Wassers in Bewegung versetzt werden ; von 

 L. Euler. Herausgegeben von Ernest A. Brauer und M. 



WlNKELMANN. Pp. 94. 



Obituary. 



Professor George Jarvis Brush, an assistant editor of this 

 Journal from 1863 to 1879, died at his home in New Haven on 

 February 6 in his eighty-first year. He was appointed Professor 

 of Mineralogy in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University 

 in 1864, and became Director of the School in 1872. In 1898 he 

 retired from active service but remained President of the Sheffield 

 Trustees until his death. A notice of Professor Brush is deferred 

 until a later number. 



Sir Joseph Lister, famous for his discovery of the antiseptic 

 treatment in surgery, died in London on February 11 at the age of 

 eighty -five years. He served as Professor of Surgery in Glasgow 

 and Edinburgh Universities, and in King's College, London. 



Charles Gilbert Wheeler, the chemist and mining geolo- 

 gist, died on January 30 at the age of seventy-five years. 



Mr. J. B. Edouard Bornet, the eminent French phycologist, 

 died at Paris on December 18, at the age of eighty-three years. 



