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The Carnegie Institution has also undertaken the republication 

 of the leading Classics of International Law, under the editorship 

 of Dr. James Brown Scott. Sufficient reason for this undertak- 

 ing is found in the difficulty of obtaining texts in convenient 

 form for scientific study; of the earlier works, for example, few 

 are to be found in the libraries of this country. Further than 

 this, some of the most important works have never been translated 

 into English, being only accessible in the Latin texts. 



The following works have been recently issued: 



Le Droit des Gens on Principes de la Loi Naturelle. Appliques 

 a la conduite et aux affaires des Nations et des Souverains; par M. 

 de Vattel. With an Introduction by Albert de Lapradelle. 



Volume I. Reproduction of Books I and II of Edition of 

 1*758. Pp. lv, XXVI, 541; with a portrait of Vattell. 



Volume II. Reproduction of Books III and IV of Edition of 

 1758. Pp. 375. 



Volume III. Translation of the Edition of 1758 ; by Charles 

 G. Fenwick. With an Introduction by Albert de Lapradelle. 

 Pp. lix, 398. 



De Jure Naturae et Gentium Dissertationes ; by Samuel 

 Rachel. Volume I. A reproduction of the text of 1676, with 

 Introduction by Ludwig von Bar, and list of errata. Pp. 335. 

 Volume II. A Translation of the text ; by JohistPawley Bate; 

 with index of authors cited. Pp. 233. 



Obituary. 



Professor Cleveland Abbe, the distinguished meteorologist, 

 died at his home in Chevy Chase, near Washington, on October 

 28, in his seventy-eighth year. His early work was largely in 

 astronomy and it was when Director of the Observatory at Cin- 

 cinnati in 1870 that he was invited by Chief Signal Officer Gen. 

 A. J. Myer to come to Washington and undertake the work of 

 weather prediction in this country. The system of weather fore- 

 casting then established through his efforts not only grew to have 

 a broad, scientific basis in this country but was adopted from 

 here by many other civilized countries. He was also an active 

 student of problems relating to meteorological subjects, and his 

 contributions to this department of science were many and 

 important. 



Dr. Percival Lowell, Director of the Lowell Observatory at 

 Flagstaff, Arizona, died on November 12 in his sixty-first year. 

 Born in Boston, of a distinguished family, he brought to his life's 

 work as an astronomer rare intellectual gifts, keenness of observa- 

 tion, a vivid imagination and great industry. His investigations 

 of Mars, as also of some of the other planets, led to conclusions 

 which excited great interest and won him recognition by many 

 astronomical and learned societies, but sober science has generally 

 held that some of these conclusions were based more upon imagi- 

 nation than upon actual fact. 



Professor Pierre Duhem, the eminent French writer on 

 mathematical physics, died atCabrespine on September 14. 



