422 Scientific Intelligence. 



3. Field Museum of Natural History. Annual Report of the 

 Director, D. C. Davies, to the Board of Trustees, for the year* 

 1921. Pp. 75, with 16 plates. Chicago, 1922.— This report is 

 made of especial interest since it opens with a notice and portrait 

 of Dr. Frederick J. V, Skiff, who served as director from Decem- 

 ber 16, 1893, until his sudden death on February 21, 1921. What 

 Dr. Skiff did towards the development of the museum during a 

 period of service extending over nearly thirty years is best appre- 

 ciated by those who were closely associated with him. The 

 museum has also suffered by the loss of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, 

 one of the original trustees, and of Charles B. Cory, curator of 

 Zoology. The Museum was reopened in its new building on May 

 2, 1921, at that time everything was in readiness of the renewal 

 of its work. The entire deficit in the building fund has been 

 assumed by President Stanley Field, who had earlier contributed 

 the sum of $150,000. Capt. Marshall Field has agreed to contrib- 

 ute $50,000 annually for five years to pay for expeditions in the 

 field, for new exhibition cases and for the publication of papers 

 by members of the staff; he had already contributed $65,000 

 toward the deficit in the building fund. 



4. Publications of the British Museum of Natural History. — 

 Recent publications are the following : 



Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa (Polyzoa) in the department 

 of Geology : The Cretaceous Bryozoa, volume IV. This volume 

 (pp. 1-404, with 8 plates) by W. D. Lang is part II of the cata- 

 logue of the Cribrimorphs, completing the Cretaceous Cribri- 

 morph Cheilostomata. See introduction to volume III. 



Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings. Vol. 

 VI, Supplement, A to I. Pp. 551, 4to. With Addenda and Cor- 

 rigenda to vols. I and II, A to Hooker. Pp. 48. The first vol- 

 ume of this Catalogue was published in 1903 ; volumes II- V fol- 

 lowed in 1904-1915. These were prepared by B. B. Woodward, 

 who, with some clerical aid has. compiled the present Supplement. 



5. National Academy of Sciences. — The autumn meeting of 

 the National Academy will be held in New York City, November 

 14 to 16. The opening session will be on Tuesday morning in 

 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, at 10 o 'clock. The ses- 

 sion for the presentation of papers will immediately follow the 

 business session. This will be opened by a brief address of wel- 

 come from President Butler. So far as possible, papers from 

 the Sections of astronomy, chemistry, geology and paleontology 

 will be assigned to this day. On Tuesday evening President and 

 Mrs. Butler will receive the visiting members and their friends at 

 the President's house, 60 Morningside Drive, beginning 8.30. 

 A subscription dinner will be held on Wednesday evening, at a 

 place to be announced later. 



