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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  entre-52° 
  Y-57° 
  (1875) 
  para 
  el 
  Equinoccio 
  1925f 
  by 
  Pablo 
  T. 
  

   • 
  Delavan. 
  Volume 
  V. 
  Pp. 
  xxii, 
  149. 
  La 
  Plata, 
  Observatorio 
  

   Astronomico, 
  1919. 
  — 
  Catalogues 
  of 
  the 
  stars 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  

   heavens 
  are 
  not 
  too 
  numerous 
  nor 
  complete 
  ; 
  hence 
  this 
  volume 
  

   will 
  be 
  especially 
  valuable. 
  It 
  connects 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  with 
  the 
  

   catalogue 
  planned 
  by 
  the 
  Argentine 
  National 
  Observatory 
  of 
  

   Cordoba 
  which 
  is 
  to 
  extend 
  from 
  the 
  Durchmusterung 
  of 
  Arge- 
  

   lander 
  (including 
  all 
  stars 
  to 
  the 
  ninth 
  magnitude 
  from 
  80N. 
  

   to 
  — 
  23S.) 
  to 
  — 
  52 
  °S. 
  Ing. 
  Felix 
  Aguilar 
  is 
  to 
  observe 
  the 
  zone 
  

   from 
  —57° 
  to 
  —62°. 
  

  

  4. 
  Technical 
  Booh 
  Review 
  Index. 
  Issued 
  by 
  the 
  Technology 
  

   Department 
  of 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  Library 
  of 
  Pittsburgh. 
  — 
  This 
  Index, 
  

   printed 
  from 
  part 
  of 
  a 
  card-index 
  maintained 
  by 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  

   Library 
  of 
  Pittsburgh, 
  is 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  book 
  reviews 
  in 
  scientific, 
  

   technical 
  and 
  trade 
  journals 
  currently 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  Tech- 
  

   nology 
  Department. 
  It 
  is 
  concerned 
  mainly 
  with 
  books 
  on 
  pure 
  

   and 
  applied 
  science 
  but 
  includes 
  a 
  few 
  on 
  allied 
  subjects. 
  The 
  

   arrangement 
  is 
  by 
  authors. 
  The 
  price 
  of 
  the 
  Index 
  is 
  fifty 
  

   cents 
  a 
  year. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  Rear 
  Admiral 
  Robert 
  Edwin 
  Peary, 
  the 
  indefatigable 
  Arctic 
  

   explorer, 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  in 
  Washington 
  on 
  February 
  20. 
  He 
  

   was 
  born 
  at 
  Cresson, 
  Penn. 
  in 
  1856 
  and 
  was 
  graduated 
  from 
  

   Bowdoin 
  College 
  in 
  1877. 
  In 
  1881 
  he 
  entered 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Navy 
  

   as 
  civil 
  engineer 
  and 
  was 
  early 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  surveys 
  for 
  

   the 
  proposed 
  Nicaragua 
  Ship 
  Canal. 
  His 
  Arctic 
  explorations 
  

   commenced 
  in 
  1886, 
  and 
  his 
  8th 
  Arctic 
  expedition, 
  begun 
  in 
  

   July, 
  1908, 
  was 
  crowned 
  with 
  success 
  when 
  he 
  reached 
  the 
  North 
  

   Pole 
  on 
  April 
  6, 
  1909. 
  The 
  scientific 
  results 
  of 
  his 
  Arctic 
  work 
  

   were 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  importance 
  and 
  he 
  well 
  merited 
  the 
  promotion 
  

   to 
  the 
  rank 
  of 
  rear 
  admiral 
  given 
  him 
  in 
  1911. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Frank 
  Perkins 
  Whitman, 
  whose 
  death 
  was 
  

   announced 
  recently, 
  had 
  held 
  the 
  chair 
  of 
  physics 
  in 
  Western 
  

   Reserve 
  University 
  since 
  1886. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Troy, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  in 
  

   1853 
  and 
  was 
  graduated 
  from 
  Brown 
  University 
  in 
  1874. 
  He 
  

   made 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  important 
  contributions 
  to 
  his 
  special 
  depart- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  study; 
  his 
  place 
  among 
  scientific 
  men 
  is 
  well 
  stated 
  by 
  

   his 
  associates 
  in 
  Cleveland: 
  "he 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  research 
  scholar 
  and 
  

   never 
  wished 
  to 
  be 
  considered 
  one, 
  but 
  he 
  did 
  have 
  a 
  profound 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  problems 
  of 
  physics 
  and 
  astronomy 
  and 
  

   he 
  kept 
  up 
  with 
  the 
  research 
  work 
  done 
  in 
  these 
  branches." 
  1 
  

  

  1 
  Science, 
  Jan. 
  30, 
  p. 
  106. 
  

  

  