Miscellaneous Intelligence. 4Y5 



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A view is given of the mine from whicli the mineral is obtained 

 and it is remarked that the green variety of the species, hiddenite, 

 is also found there. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



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

 the National Academy of Sciences was held at Chicago from 

 Nov. 17 to 29. The list of titles of papers presented v\^ill be given 

 in the following number. 



2. American Association. — The annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science will be held in 

 St. Louis in Convocation Week, beginning on December 28. Most 

 of the societies usually affiliated with the Association will hold 

 their meetings at the same place and time, and joint sessions in 

 many cases are promised. The success of the tirst Convocation 

 held at Washington a year ago gives reason to anticipate an 

 equally interesting occasion at St. Louis. 



3. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution^ showing the operations., expenditures and conditions 

 of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1902. Pp. Ixvi, 

 687, with many plates. Washington, 1903. — The report of the 

 Secretary, S. P. Langley, in the volume now issued, was noticed 

 on p. 242 of the preceding volume. In addition to this and other 

 administrative matters the volume contains a General Appendix 

 (pp. 117-659) which presents the usual selection of interesting 

 scientific memoirs relating chiefly to the year 1902. 



4. The Physico -Chemical Review. — It is announced that an 

 international review of the sciences of physical chemistry and 

 the allied branches of chemistry and physics will be began in 

 1904 with Dr. Max Rudolphi, of Darmstadt, as editor-in-chief, 

 and with the cooperation of numerous scientists in Germany and 

 abroad. It will contain abstracts of papers published elsewhere; 

 these will be in French and English as well as German and will 

 be prepared by the authors so far as possible. The Review will 

 be issued twice a month, making an annual volume of about 860 

 pages. Specimen numbers will be sent post-free by the pub- 

 lishers, Gebrtider Borntraeger, Dessauer Strasse 29, Berlin SW. 



Obituary. 



Robert Henky Thurston, Director of Sibley College and 

 Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, died 

 in Ithaca on October 25th, his sixty-fourth birthday. 



Professor Henry Carrington Bolton, the well known 

 chemist and author, died in Washington on November 19 at the 

 age of sixty years. 



