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chusetts, 575 ; Report for 1873 of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 

 579 ; Report of the Bussey Institute, 582 ; Report of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology for 1873, 580 ; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, 581 ; Catalogues of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 581 ; 

 Annual Meeting of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 582 ; Anderson School of Natural History, 576, 578, 579. New York : The 

 " Torrey Memorial Cabinet," 584 ; " Directory " of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, 584; Issue of "Proceedings" by the New York Lyceum of Natural 

 History, 585 ; the Bulletin of the Science Department of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, 585. Pennsylvania : Publishing Fund of the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, 586 ; Report of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences, 586 ; Philadelphia National Museum, 587 ; Report of the Zoological 

 Society of Philadelphia, 587 ; the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 588. 

 Maryland : Reorganization of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 589 ; 

 Botanical Conservatory of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 590 ; South- 

 ern Historical Society, 590. Washington : Annual Report of the Library 

 of Congress, 591 ; Recent Publications of the Smithsonian Institution, 591 ; 

 Ordnance Bureau Report on Small Arms, etc., 592 ; United States Depart- 

 mental Centennial Board, 593 ; Additions to the National Herbarium in 

 1874, 593. Kentucky : Sale of Dr. Troost's Cabinet of Minerals and An- 

 tiquities, 594. Chile : International Exposition in Chile, 604. 



The Old World. England : Report of the Zoological Society of London, 

 595 ; Annual Return of the British Museum, 596 ; New Physical Laboratory 

 at Oxford, 598 ; Temporary Museum at the Last Meeting of the British 

 Association, 599 ; Forty-fourth Meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, 600 ; Psychological Society of Great Britain, 600 ; 

 the Manchester Aquarium, 600 ; Aid to Investigation in Agricultural Sci- 

 ence, 604. France: The French Museum of Physical and Mechanical 

 Science, 600 ; Prize for an Essay on the Hardness and Friability of 

 Steel, 601; Meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, 601; the American Society of Paris, 602. Germany: A New 

 Observatory, 603 ; Maritime Meteorology in Germany, 603. Denmark : 

 Prize Essay for the Copenhagen Academy of Sciences, 603. Japan : 

 German Society of Natural History and Anthropology in Japan, 604. 



(b.) GENERAL. 



European Savans in American Institutions, 594; Proposed Catalogue of all 

 Scientific Institutions, 595 ; the Use of the Divining-rod, 605 ; Life-saving 

 Stations on the Coast of the United States, 606; an Experiment in Sociol- 

 ogy, 608 ; Quetelet's Tables of Mortality, 609 ; Wreck of the Whaler Arctic 

 of Dundee, 610; Lady Mathematicians, 605. 



P. NECROLOGY 611 



Q. BIBLIOGRAPHY 617 



R. INDEX TO THE REFERENCES 633 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX 639 



