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promises important results, quite different from those which have 

 given the laboratory its reputation thus far, namely, the investi- 

 gations of the physics and chemistry of active volcanoes. For 

 example, specimens of gases collected from the crater of Kilauea, 

 made by members of the staff, have been brought to the labora- 

 tory and much may be expected from their detailed study. The 

 other departments have shown like activity, that of Botanical 

 Research having included investigations in the Algerian and 

 Libyan deserts. The non-magnetic ship Carnegie, in charge of 

 Dr. L. A. Bauer, has traversed some 28,000 miles in the Indian 

 and Pacific oceans during the year. The department of Meridian 

 Astronomy has carried on its work, but unfortunately has met 

 with a great loss by tbe death of its director, Dr. Lewis Boss. 

 One of the recent developments of the Institution has been the 

 attaching of eminent specialists to the force of the departments- 

 for limited periods of time. Eight such specialists have been 

 employed during the past year, and the plan is regarded as hav- 

 ing worked very satisfactorily. The wide distribution of the 

 publications of the Institution since its foundation is indicated 

 by the total of 100,869 volumes, which have gone out chiefly as 

 gifts, but also to some extent as sales. 



2. Publications of the Carnegie Institution.— Recent publi- 

 cations of the Carnegie Institution are noted in the following list 

 (continued from vol. xxxiv, p. 493) : 



No. 74, Vol. VI. The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian 

 Romances, edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum by 



H. OsKAR SOMMER. Pp. 391. 



No. 90 A. Guide to the Materials for American History, to 

 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain. Volume I, 

 Pp. xi, 346. The State Papers, by Charles M. Andrews. 



No. 159. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and 

 the West Indies ; by Leland O. Howard, Harrison G. Dyar, 

 and Frederick Knab. Volume I. Pp. vii, 520 ; 14 plates. 

 Vol. II, pp. x, 150 plates. 



No. 170. The Electrical Conductivity, Dissociation, and Tem- 

 perature Coefficients of Conductivity from Zero to Sixty-five 

 Degrees of Aqueous Solutions of a number of Salts and Organic 

 Acids ; by Harry C. Jones, assisted by various experimenters. 

 Pp. iv, 148. 



No. 171. Pierre du Ryer, Dramatist ; by Henry C. Lancas- 

 ter. Pp. v, 182. 



No. 174. Easter Island. The Rapanui Speech and the Peo- 

 pling of Southeast Polynesia ; by William Churchill. Pp. 340. 



No. 175. Researches of the Department of Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism. Land Magnetic Observations, 1905-1910; by L. A. 

 Bauer. Pp. 185 ; 10 plates, and numerous figures. 



No. 176. Study of Metabolism in severe Diabetes; by Francis 

 G. Benedict and Elliott P. Joslin. Pp. vi, 135. 



The Classics of International Law ; edited by James B. Scott. 

 Works of Grotius. Vol. I. Text of 1646. Pp. 618. Works of 

 Balthazar Ayala, 1581. Vol. I. Pp. xxvii, 227 > vol. II, pp. xii, 

 250. 



