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facts and the preparation of daily reports on the observations, as 
well as in the discussion of the series of results brought in from 
over the country and world with reference to a knowledge of 
meteorological principles, and a broad basis for prognostications. 
All considerations sustain the decision that the head of the depart- 
ment should be a man of meteorological and physical science, 
accustomed to scientific work, and, at the same time, one of large 
executive experience and success. 
G. F. Matthew. Fauna of the St. John Group, No. 3, Trans. Roy. Soe. Can., 
1885. 
Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory, Topeka, Rénigsel vol i, No. 1. 
Contains descriptions of fresh-water molluska by R. EK. Call and notes on fishes 
by C. H. Gilbert. 
Bulletin of the Buffalo Soe. Nat. Sci., vol. v, No. 2. Contains papers on the 
fossil fishes of the Genesee, Portage and Black Shales, by H. U. Williams; and 
on the fishes of the Corniferous, by the same and F. K. Mixer, and other papers. 
Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia of the British Museum, Part 3, by R. Lyddekker. 
Contains catalogue with notes of the Ungulate, suborders Perissodactyla, Taxo- 
dontia, Condylarthra and Amblypoda, with some figures. 
The Geology of Long Island, by F. J. H. Merrill, 24 pp. 8vo, with 2 plates 
(Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., ili, Nos. 11, 12, 1886). A valuable contribution to Amer- 
ican geology. 
Fossil Insects.—Bulletin No. 31 of the U.S. Geological, Survey contains a sys- 
tematic review of our present knowledge of Fossil Insects, including Myriapoda 
and Arachnids, by Mr. 8. H. Scudder. 
OBITUARY. 
Professor E. L. Youmans, of New York, died on the eighteenth 
of January, in his 67th year. He had long been active and suc- 
cessful in the work of extending a knowledge of scientific truths 
and principles among the general public. His published works 
include a Class Book of Chemistry (1852); Alcohol and the Con- 
stitution of Man (1853); Chemical Atlas (1855); Hand-book of 
Household Science (1857); and some others. He planned the well 
known International Scientific Series, begun in 1871 and of which 
fifty-seven volumes have now been issued. He also established the 
Popular Science Monthly in 1872, of which he remained the chief 
editor. A compilation of essays on the Conservation of Energy and 
the Correlation of Forces, to which he added an Introduction, 
was prepared by him in 1864. He was also instrumental in 
extending a knowledge of the writings of Spencer, Tyndall and 
Huxley in this country, and as the scientific adviser of the Messrs. 
Appleton, and in other ways, his influence was felt in the ad- 
vancement of science. 
Setwyn L. Harpine, the young author of a valuable paper in 
the first number of this volume died early in January after five 
days illness. The past summer he received from Harvard his 
degree of A.B., summa cum laude, with honors in physics; and 
at the time of his death he was studying Electrical and Mechani- 
cal Engineering in the Massachusetts School of Technology. 
THEODOR VON OPppouzER, the eminent astronomer, died at 
Vienna on the 26th of December in his 46th year. 
