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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  The 
  activities 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  are 
  so 
  extraordinarily 
  varied 
  that 
  

   the 
  mere 
  enumeration 
  in 
  the 
  table 
  of 
  contents 
  in 
  the 
  report 
  now 
  

   issued 
  covers 
  some 
  thirteen 
  pages. 
  It 
  is 
  hardly 
  necessary 
  to 
  

   add 
  that 
  under 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Stratton, 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  

   Bureau 
  has 
  been 
  prosecuted 
  with 
  remarkable 
  energy 
  and 
  suc- 
  

   cess 
  ; 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  to 
  science 
  and 
  the 
  nation 
  at 
  large 
  

   has 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  vastly 
  greater 
  than 
  was 
  anticipated 
  at 
  its 
  

   inception 
  in 
  1901. 
  The 
  new 
  publications 
  include 
  12 
  scientific 
  

   and 
  15 
  technologic 
  papers 
  and 
  3 
  miscellaneous 
  publications. 
  

  

  3. 
  The 
  National 
  Research 
  Council. 
  — 
  The 
  pamphlet 
  giving 
  

   the 
  organization 
  and 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Research 
  Council 
  

   for 
  1919-20 
  bears 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  December, 
  1919. 
  "We 
  have 
  now 
  

   the 
  first 
  number 
  of 
  volume 
  1 
  of 
  the 
  Bulletin 
  which 
  discusses 
  

   "The 
  national 
  importance 
  of 
  scientific 
  and 
  industrial 
  research;" 
  

   by 
  George 
  Ellery 
  Hale 
  and 
  others. 
  Nos. 
  2 
  and 
  3 
  are 
  now 
  

   in 
  preparation. 
  

  

  4. 
  Memoirs 
  of 
  the 
  Bemice 
  Pauahi 
  Bishop 
  Museum 
  of 
  Poly- 
  

   nesian 
  Ethnology 
  and 
  Natural 
  History. 
  — 
  Volumes 
  recently 
  

   received 
  include 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  Vol. 
  V, 
  Part 
  III. 
  — 
  Fornander 
  Collection 
  of 
  Hawaiian 
  Anti- 
  

   quities 
  and 
  Folk-Lore. 
  Quarto, 
  pp. 
  506-721. 
  — 
  This 
  volume 
  gives 
  

   the 
  Hawaiians' 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  their 
  islands 
  and 
  

   origin 
  of 
  their 
  race 
  with 
  the 
  traditions 
  of 
  their 
  migrations, 
  etc., 
  

   as 
  gathered 
  from 
  native 
  sources. 
  The 
  author 
  is 
  Abraham 
  For- 
  

   nander 
  and 
  the 
  translations 
  have 
  been 
  edited 
  and 
  illustrated 
  

   by 
  Thomas 
  G. 
  Thrum. 
  The 
  Mythical 
  Tales 
  include 
  pp. 
  506- 
  

   569 
  and 
  Traditionary 
  Stories 
  pp. 
  570-693. 
  The 
  Story 
  of 
  Kawelo 
  

   in 
  six 
  chapters 
  (pp. 
  694-721) 
  closes 
  the 
  volume. 
  

  

  Yol. 
  VI, 
  No. 
  1 
  — 
  Fornander 
  Collection 
  of 
  Hawaiian 
  Antiqui- 
  

   ties 
  and 
  Folk-Lore 
  — 
  Third 
  Series, 
  Part 
  I, 
  Quarto, 
  pp. 
  1-217. 
  

   No. 
  2. 
  — 
  Fornander 
  Collection 
  of 
  Hawaiian 
  Antiquities 
  and 
  Folk- 
  

   Lore 
  — 
  Third 
  Series, 
  Part 
  II. 
  Pp. 
  222-358. 
  These 
  volumes 
  dis- 
  

   cuss 
  other 
  interesting 
  topics 
  having, 
  like 
  the 
  above, 
  to 
  do 
  with 
  

   the 
  customs, 
  origin 
  and 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  Polynesian 
  race, 
  that 
  of 
  

   Hawaii 
  in 
  particular. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  R. 
  C. 
  Maclaurin, 
  president 
  of 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  Insti- 
  

   tute 
  of 
  Technology 
  since 
  1908, 
  died 
  on 
  January 
  15 
  in 
  his 
  forty- 
  

   ninth 
  year. 
  He 
  was 
  of 
  Scotch 
  birth, 
  but 
  when 
  only 
  twenty-eight 
  

   was 
  made 
  professor 
  of 
  mathematics 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  In 
  1907 
  

   he 
  accepted 
  the 
  chair 
  of 
  mathematical 
  physics 
  at 
  Columbia 
  

   University, 
  but 
  two 
  years 
  later 
  left 
  this 
  for 
  the 
  ■ 
  position 
  at 
  

   Cambridge 
  which 
  he 
  filled 
  so 
  brilliantly. 
  His 
  early 
  death 
  is 
  a 
  

   great 
  loss 
  to 
  the 
  cause 
  of 
  education 
  in 
  this 
  country. 
  

  

  Sir 
  William 
  Osler, 
  the 
  distinguished 
  professor 
  of 
  medicine 
  

   at 
  Oxford, 
  died 
  on 
  December 
  29 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  seventy 
  years. 
  

  

  