Scientific Serials

Abstract

Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, Vol. ii. No. 9, June, 1893.—The mechanics of the earth's atmosphere is a collection of translations by Cleveland Abbe (published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1891,324 pp. 8vo). An account of it is furnished by R. S. Woodward (pp. 199–203). The volume contains twenty papers, all but two of which were published originally in the German language. The opening paper is by Hagen (1874), then follows the classic memoir by Helmholtz (1858), with five others by the same author. Then comes the extension of one of the last cited papers by Kirchhoff (1869); we then have five memoirs by Oberbeck, a paper by Hertz (1884), three papers by Bezold (1888–1889), a paper by Lord Rayleigh (1890, on the vibration of the atmosphere), and papers by Margules (1890) and Ferrel (1890). It will be readily inferred from this outline that Mr. Abbe has performed a work of prime importance to mathematical meteorologists. Dr. T. S. Fiske (pp. 204–211) also gives an outline sketch of mathematical investigations in the theory of values and prices, by Dr. I. Fisher (reprinted from the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, July, 1892). The number closes with a few brief notes and a list of recent publications.