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plides and Bassides; by Claude Morley. Pp. ix, 148. The 

 second part of this revision of the Ichneumonidae by Mr. Morley 

 was published in 1913. The present Part includes two additional 

 tribes, and is illustrated by a plate in color by Mr. Rupert 

 Stenton. 



A Monograph of the Genus Sabicea; by Herbert F. Ween- 

 ham. Pp. 82; 12 pis., and text-figs. — This is the first of a series 

 of monographs planned as the result of a study of the family of 

 Rubiaceae by Mr. Wernham. It is based on a study of the col- 

 lections of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and also the principal con- 

 tinental Herbaria. 



Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1913; 

 by S. F. Harmer. Pp. 12, with 1 text-figure and 3 maps. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaense in the British Museum. 

 Supplement, Vol. I. Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae 

 (Nolinae and Lithosianae); by George F. Hampson. Pp. xxviii, 

 858; 276 figs. — This Supplement contains descriptions of the 

 large numbers of species in the families of this great work 

 embraced in Vol. I, published in 1898 and Vol. II, 1900. The 

 name Amatidae is substituted, according to priority, for that of 

 Syntomidae. A Supplement to Vol. Ill is planned. 



Obituary. 



Professor Andrew Wheeler Phillips, for many years pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in Yale University, and the author of 

 numerous mathematical works, died at his home in New Haven 

 on January 10, in his seventy-first year. 



Dr. Cyrus Fogg Brackett, professor emeritus of physics at 

 Princeton University, died recently at the age of eighty-two. 



Dr. Benjamin Sharp, the zoologist, and formerly correspond- 

 ing secretary of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 died January 25 at Morehead, N. C. 



Vice- Admiral Sir George Nares, the Arctic explorer, who, 

 in addition to his contributions to our knowledge of the arctic 

 regions, was also prominent in connection with several scientific 

 voyages, particularly some of the "Challenger Expeditions," died 

 on January 15, at the age of eighty-four. 



Mr. J. S. Harding, prominent among English meterologists, 

 died on January 11 in his seventy-sixth year. 



Mr. F. W. Rqdler, curator of the Museum of Practical Geol- 

 ogy in London and author of many papers on geology and chem- 

 istry, died on January 23 in his seventy-fifth year. 



