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THREE volumes of the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, containing the proceedings of the physico-rnathematical section, have been received recently. In vol. xxii. Mr. Wyragevitch describes certain Actinozoa of the Black Sea in the neighbourhood of Balaclava, and Mr. A. Borissiak contributes notes on the Black Sea plankton. Mr. K. N. Davidoff's article on the islands of the Indo-Australian archipelago deserves mention. The confusion of European and Malay races in Amboina has produced a curious type, and the Malay tongue has absorbed, it is shown, Dutch and Portuguese words. The barbarous custom of wooing with the head of an enemy still prevails. The Solifugae of Persia are discussed by Mr. A. Birula. In vol. xxiii. Mr. V. Bianchi writes on Passeriformes and Palsearctic larks, basing his remarks on studies in the museums of London, Tring, and Paris. Mr. N. Donitch contributes observations of the annular solar eclipse in March, 1904, made at Cambogia, and of the total solar eclipse in August, 1905. The latter was observed from Alcala and Assouan. Notes on inundations at St. Petersburg are contributed by Mr. S. Griboyedoff, and studies of rainfall in that capital, with diagrams and tables, are given by Mr. E. Rosenthal. Vol. xxiv. contains the results of lengthy investigations, by Mr. A. Bielopolsky, of the radial velocity of the variable star Algol, and another astronomical paper, by Mme. Zhiloff, on the orbit of the minor planet Doris (48). A new species of pheasant from the mountain regions of western China is described by Mr. V. Bianchi. Details of balloon experiments at the aerodynamic institute at Kutshino are furnished by Mr. V. Kuznetsoff. From fossils collected by the Polar expedition of the late Baron Toll in 1900-3, Mme. M. Pavloff is able to draw deductions as to the changes of climate in east Siberia since the Tertiary period. Several papers on aerial mechanics are contributed by Mr. D. P. Riabushinsky. Mr. M. Golenkin writes on a botanical Visit to Java, and the report of the geological museum of Peter the Great concludes the volume.
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Russian Scientific Works. Nature 78, 186–187 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078186a0
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