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same observers, if that be possible. There is found here the 

 same relation between proper motion, magnitude and parallax as 

 in the larger list of northern stars. 



In part IV the catalogue- previously published is revised and 

 extended to include this later work, so that it shows the entire 

 fruit of the parallax investigation of the Winchester Observatory 

 on 238 stars. w. b. 



2. Bedrock, a Quarterly Review of Scientific Thought 

 (Constable & Co., 10 Orange st , London, W. C). — The January 

 number of "Bedrock" (No. 4) contains, among other impor- 

 tant articles, one by Elie Metchnikoff on the warfare against 

 tuberculosis ; by Professor J. Joly on pleochroic halos ; by Sir 

 Bryan Donkin on science and spiritualism ; by Eric Pritchard on 

 the milk problem ; and by H. H. Turner on ' k How could I prove 

 that I had been to the South Pole ? " 



3. Outline of Courses in Botany, Microscopy, and Pharma- 

 cognosy ; by Henry Kraemer, Pb.B., Ph D. Pp. 50. Phila- 

 delphia (J. B. Lippincott Co.).— Outlines of laboratory work 

 for students in schools of pharmacy, based on the author's " Text- 

 Book in Botany and Pharmacognosy " (already noticed in this 

 Journal) and illustrating the courses given in the Philadelphia 

 College of Pharmacy. Instruction is expected to extend through 

 three years, and covers botany the first year, pharmacognosy 

 of drugs of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia the second, and pharmacog- 

 nosy of important non-official drugs the third. a. l. d. 



Obituary. 



Dr. F. Teller, chief geologist of the K. K. Geologische 

 Reichsanstalt in Vienna, died on January 10 in his sixty-first 

 year. 



M. L. P. Cailletet, the French physicist, died on January 5 

 in his eighty-first year. His work on the liquefaction of the so- 

 called fixed gases in 1 877 and 1878, with that of Pictet, formed 

 one of the most important epochs in the history of Physics. 



M. L. Teisserenc de Bort, the able French meteorologist, 

 died on January 6 at the age of fifty-four years. 



Dr. Paul Gordan, the eminent German mathematician, died 

 on December 21 at the age of seventy -four years. 



Professor Robert Collett, the Norwegian zoologist, died in 

 January last at the age of seventy years. 



Dr. Augustus Witkowski, Professor of Experimental Physics 

 in the University of Cracow, died on January 21 at the age of 

 fifty-eight years. 



The Earl of Crawford (James Ludovic Crawford), the astron- 

 omer, president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878-79, 

 died on January 31 at the age of sixty-five years. 



William Greenwood Wright, the entomologist, died on 

 December 1, 1912, in the eighty- third year of his age. 



Dr. Otto Schoetensack, the German anthropologist, died on 

 December 23 in his sixty-third year. 



