﻿Miscellaneous 
  Intelligence. 
  497 
  

  

  different 
  lines 
  of 
  public 
  interest. 
  About 
  half 
  the 
  volume 
  is 
  

   given 
  to 
  topics 
  relating 
  to 
  history, 
  to 
  Government 
  relations 
  

   abroad 
  and 
  at 
  home, 
  to 
  finance, 
  and 
  to 
  social 
  and 
  economic 
  prob- 
  

   lems, 
  including 
  labor 
  and 
  labor 
  legislation. 
  The 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  volume 
  takes 
  up 
  different 
  branches 
  of 
  science, 
  art 
  and 
  litera- 
  

   ture, 
  also 
  religious 
  and 
  educational 
  matters. 
  A 
  full 
  index 
  cover- 
  

   ing 
  thirty 
  pages, 
  and 
  conveniently 
  printed 
  on 
  tinted 
  paper, 
  makes 
  

   the 
  numerous 
  topics 
  discussed, 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  very 
  briefly, 
  easily 
  

   accessible 
  to 
  the 
  reader. 
  

  

  4. 
  Explorations 
  and 
  Field- 
  Work 
  of 
  the 
  /Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion 
  in 
  1916. 
  Pp. 
  134 
  with 
  a 
  folded 
  plate 
  as 
  frontispiece 
  and 
  

   many 
  text 
  figures. 
  Washington, 
  1917 
  (Smithsonian 
  Miscellane- 
  

   ous 
  Collections, 
  vol. 
  66, 
  No. 
  17). 
  — 
  This 
  recent 
  publication 
  is 
  made 
  

   particularly 
  attractive 
  by 
  a 
  wealth 
  of 
  beautiful 
  illustrations. 
  It 
  

   goes 
  over 
  the 
  entire 
  field 
  of 
  the 
  explorations 
  carried 
  on 
  by 
  the 
  

   Smithsonian 
  in 
  the 
  past 
  year, 
  the 
  lines 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  so 
  numerous 
  

   that 
  each 
  topic 
  can 
  be 
  treated 
  only 
  briefly. 
  The 
  opening 
  chapter 
  

   by 
  Dr. 
  Walcott, 
  with 
  its 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  beautiful 
  mountain 
  

   views 
  taken 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  Canadian 
  Rockies, 
  is 
  particularly 
  

   interesting; 
  this 
  is 
  also 
  true 
  of 
  the 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  botanical 
  

   exploration 
  of 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands, 
  and 
  indeed 
  of 
  many 
  other 
  

   sections 
  of 
  the 
  volume. 
  

  

  Other 
  publications 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  include 
  the 
  

   following: 
  

  

  Thirty-first 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Eth- 
  

   nology 
  to 
  the 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  1909- 
  

   1910. 
  F. 
  W. 
  Hodge, 
  Ethnologist-in- 
  charge. 
  Pp. 
  1037. 
  The 
  

   administrative 
  report 
  (pp. 
  1-26) 
  is 
  followed 
  by 
  an 
  exhaustive 
  

   monograph 
  of 
  a 
  thousand 
  quarto 
  pages 
  on 
  Tsimshian 
  Mythology 
  

   by 
  Franz 
  Boas, 
  based 
  on 
  texts 
  recorded 
  by 
  Henry 
  W. 
  Tate. 
  

   Pp. 
  27-1037, 
  pis. 
  3, 
  figs. 
  10. 
  

  

  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  Bulletin 
  55. 
  Ethnobotany 
  of 
  

   the 
  Tewa 
  Indians; 
  by 
  Wilfred 
  W. 
  Robbins, 
  John 
  P. 
  Harring- 
  

   ton, 
  and 
  Barbara 
  Freise-Marreco. 
  Pp. 
  xii, 
  124; 
  9 
  pis., 
  7 
  figs. 
  

  

  The 
  Determination 
  of 
  Meteor-Orbits 
  in 
  the 
  Solar 
  System; 
  by 
  

   G. 
  von 
  Niesse 
  (translation 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Cleveland 
  Abbe). 
  Pp. 
  

   35. 
  (Misc. 
  Collections, 
  vol. 
  66, 
  No. 
  16.) 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  Arnold 
  Hague, 
  the 
  geologist, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Geological 
  Survey 
  since 
  1879 
  and 
  earlier 
  (3 
  867-1877) 
  a 
  member 
  

   of 
  the 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  40th 
  Parallel, 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  in 
  Washing- 
  

   ton 
  on 
  May 
  14th 
  in 
  his 
  seventy-seventh 
  year. 
  A 
  notice 
  is 
  deferred 
  

   to 
  a 
  later 
  number. 
  

  

  George 
  Massee, 
  the 
  English 
  mycologist, 
  died 
  on 
  February 
  

   17 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  sixty-six 
  years. 
  

  

  Jean 
  Gaston 
  Darboux, 
  the 
  eminent 
  French 
  mathematician 
  

   and 
  professor 
  in 
  the 
  Sorbonne, 
  died 
  in 
  February 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  

   seventy-five 
  years. 
  

  

  R. 
  H. 
  Tiddeman, 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain, 
  

   died 
  on 
  February 
  20 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  seventy-five 
  years. 
  

  

  