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Newman, K. El Kambio del Kompozition ke 

 experimenta el agua de " El Salto " durante el 

 Imbierno (The Change of Composition which is 

 Undergone by the Water of "El Salto" during 

 the Winter). Santiago de Chile. Pp.14. LaUni- 

 flkazion de las Medidas (Unification of Measures). 

 Valparaiso : Karlos Badezon. Pp. 61. 



Penn, William. Plan for the Peace of Europe. 

 (Old South Leaflets.) Boston. Pp. 20. 



Reports. Harvard College Astronomical Ob- 

 servatory: Fifty-first Annual Report of the Di- 

 rector, E. C. Pickering, for 1896. Pp. 13 ; Mis- 

 cellaneous Papers (List of Titles), 1888-'fl5. Pp. 

 15 ; Observations made at the Blue Hill Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory in 189.5. By A. Lawrence 

 Rotch. Pp. 80 ; Discussion of Cloud Observa- 

 tions at Blue Hill. By H. Helm Clayton. Pp. 

 230, with sev.^nteen plates Observations of the 

 New England Weather Service in 1895. By J. 

 Warren Smith. Pp. 36. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, United States, i vols. Pp. 166 and 615, with 

 charts. Commissioner of Education, United 

 States. Pp. 1164 Commissioner of Fish and 

 fisheries. United States, 1893. Pp. 484; 1894. 

 Pp. 718. National Museum, United States. 1894. 

 Pp. IOjjO. (Geological Survey of Alabama (Report 

 on the Valley Regions, Paleozoic Strata). By 

 Henry McCalley, Assistant Geologist. Board of 

 Education, City of Uuluth. Pp. 98, with plates. 

 Peabody Museum of American Archajology and 

 Ethnology, 1895-'C6. Pp. 111. S. P. Langley, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896. 

 Pp. 77. Interstate Commerce Commission (In- 

 come of RaUways, 189C), preliminary. 



Reprints. Dolbear, Prof. A. E. : Mechanical 

 Conceptions of Electrical Phenomena (Journal 

 Franklin Institute). Pp. 28. Evermann, Barton 

 W. : Description of a New Species of Shad. Pp. 

 8 ; Do. and Smith, H. M. : The Whitefisbes of 

 North America. Pp. 40, with plates ; Do. and 

 Kendall, W. C. : Annotated List of Fishes known 

 from the State of Vermont. Pp. 21; Do. and Cox, 



A. O. : Fishes of the Missouri River Basin. Pp. 

 104 ; all from Report of Fish Commission. Fitz, 

 G. W. : A Study ot Respiratory Movements. Pp. 

 16, with plates. Jordan, D. S., and Evermann, 



B. W. : A Check List of Fishes and Fishlike Ver- 

 tebrates of North and Middle America. United 



States Fish Commission. Pp. 364. Luquer, L. 

 McL., and Reiss, Heinrich: The " Augen " Gneiss 

 Area, Pegmatite Veins, and Diorite Dikes at Bed- 

 ford, N. Y. Pp. 22, with plates MacMillan, 

 Conway: On the Formation of Circular Muslieag in 

 Tamarack Swamps. Pp. 8, with plates. Meams, 

 Edgar A.: Ornithological Vocabulary of theMoki 

 Indians. Pp. 12, with plate. New Mammals from 

 the Mexican Boundary Line. Pp. 4. Ries, Hein- 

 rich : The Pottery Industry of the United States. 

 Robertson, Charles : Flowers and Insects. Two 

 papers. Pp. 12 and 30. Russell, Israel C. Two 

 Essays on Igneous Intrusions. Pp. 50. Scudder, 

 Samuel H.: List of Exotic Orthoptera. Pp. 16. 

 Ward, Lester F : Social Genesis. Pp. 15. W^ood, 

 Casey A. : The Wearing of Veils, and its Effects 

 on the Eyesight. Pp. I. 



Sandemann, George. Problems of Biology. 

 New York: The Macmillan Company. London: 

 Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., limited. Pp. 213. $2. 



Silberstein, Solomon J. The Disclosures of 

 the Universal Mysteries. New York : Philip 

 Cowen, 213, 215 East Forty-fourth Street. Pj). 



298. $2. 



Stisted, Georgiana M. The True Life of Cap- 

 tain Sir Richartl F. Burton. New York: D. Ap- 

 pleton&Co. London: H.S.Nichols. Pp.419. $2. 



United States National Museum Reprints. 

 Ashmead, William N.: Descriptions of New Cy- 

 nopidous Galls and Gall Nuts. Pp. 24. Bean, 

 Tarleton H., and Barton, A. : Fishes collected at 

 Bering and Copper Islands. Pp. 14 ; Do. in 

 Kamcnatka and Japan, etc. Pp. 12, with plate. 

 Dall, W. H. : Mollusks collected by the Mexican 

 Boundary Commission, l892-'94. Pp. 42, with 

 plate. Giippy, R. J. L., and Dall, W. H. : De- 

 scriptions of Tertiary Fossils from the Antillean 

 Region. Pp. 24, with plate. Stanton, Timothy 

 W. : On the Genus Remondia, Gabb (Cretaceous 

 Bivalve Mollusks). Pp. 4, with plate. Stiles, 

 Ch. W.: A Revision of the Adult Tapeworms of 

 Hares and Rabbits. Pp. 84. Uhler, Philip R. : 

 Summary of the Hemiptera of Japan. Pp. 42. 

 Wilson, Thomas : The Swastica, the Earliest 

 Known Symbol, and itsMigrations, with Observa- 

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The Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory. 



The Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, 

 established and equipped by Dr. Ludwig 

 Mond, and presented by him to the British 

 nation, was opened by the Prince of Wales, 

 December 22d. From a review of the history 

 of the idea of founding the institution, given 

 by Dr. Mond in his presentation address, we 

 learn that a movement was set on foot fifty 

 years ago, under the auspices of Prince 

 Albert, to establish an institute for the pur- 

 suit of pure chemistry, where practical and 

 systematic instruction could be given to 

 students, and a place provided where origi- 

 nal research could be conducted by fully 

 qualified investigators. At first it was pro- 

 posed to attach this institute to the Royal 



Institution ; but this plan had to be aban- 

 doned, on account of the inadequacy of the 

 Royal Institution to provide accommodations 

 for the scheme. The teaching part of the 

 plan was, however, provided for a few years 

 afterward by the foundation of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Chemistry, which under the direction 

 of Hofmann soon became one of the most 

 successful institutions of that science in the 

 world, while the provision of a place for 

 original research still had to wait. Even be- 

 fore he knew of these facts. Dr. Mond had 

 determined to found in London a laboratory 

 of research in purely scientific chemistry and 

 in physical chemistry whence the greatest 

 results in the knowledge of the real nature 

 of things might be expected and had be- 



