470 Scientific Intelligence. 



1. United States Naval Observatory^ Captain C. H. Davis, U. 

 S. N. Superintendent. Publications, Second Series, Vol. II. Zone 

 Observation with the Nine-inch Transit Circle, 1804-1901; 

 by Aaron N. Skinner, assisted by Frank B. Littell and Theo. 

 I. King. pp. xxviii, 525. — This volume embodies the results of 

 observations made, in accordance with the suggestion of Dr. A. 

 Auwers of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, on stars to the ninth 

 magnitude, inclusive, between the parallels, —13° 50' and —18° 

 10'. 



8. Bureau of American Ethnology. — The following volumes 

 have recently come to hand: 



Nineteenth Annual Report ; by J. W. Powell, Director. 

 Pt. I., pp. xcii + 548. 79 pis., 48 figs. An exhaustive report on 

 the Myths of the Cherokee Indians has been prepared by James 

 Mooney, (pp. 3-548). 



Bulletin No. 26 — Kathlamet Texts : by Franz Boas. 261 

 pp., 1 pi. 



9. OstwalcVs Klassiker der Exahten Wissenschaften. Leipsig, 

 1902 (Wilhelm Engelraann). — The following are recent additions 

 to this valuable series : 



Nr. 129. Allgemeine Methode partielle Differential gleichungen zu inte- 

 griren ; von Joliann Friedrick Pfaff. Pp. 84. 



Nr. 130. Pangeometrie ; von N. J. Lobatschefskij (Kasan 1856). Pp. 95. 



Nr. 131. Experimental-Untersuchiingen iiber Elektricitat (xiv und xv 

 Eeihe) ; v^on Michael Faraday (London 1838). Pp. 48. 



Nr. 132. tJber die Continuitat der gas formigen und fliissigen Zustande 

 der Materie, und Uber den gas formigen Zustand der Materie ; von Thomas 

 Andrews (London 1869). Pp. 81. 



Nr. 133. J. H. Lambert's Abhandlungen zur Bahnbestimmung der Come- 

 ten. Pp. 148. 



10. HodgMns Gold Medal Awarded. — The second Hodgkins 

 Gold Medal has been awarded to J. J. Thomson of Cambridge, 

 England, *' for his investigations on the conductivity of gases, 

 especially on the gases that compose the atmospheric air." The 

 committee of award consisted of Mr. Richard Rathbun, Chair- 

 man ; Doctor A. Graham Bell, for Electricity ; Doctor Ira Rem- 

 sen, for Chemistry ; Doctor Charles D. Walcott, for Geology ; 

 Professor E. C. Pickering, for Astronomy ; Doctor Theodore N. 

 Gill, for Biology ; Professor Cleveland Abbe, for Meteorology ; 

 Mr. William H. Holmes, for Anthropology, and Mr. S. W. Strat- 

 ton, for Physics. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Ogden Nicholas Rood, Professor of Physics in Columbia 

 University, died November 12 at the age of 71. (A sketch of 

 the life and work of Professor Rood will appear in this Journal 

 for January.) 



Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, for forty years Professor of Chemistry 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College, died November 7, at the 

 age of 79 years. 



Dr. Robert Rubenson, Director of the Central Meteorolog- 

 ical Institute of Sweden, died Oct. 14, aged 73. 



John Hall Gladstone, " one of the founders of physical chem- 

 istry," has died in London at the age of 75. 



