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alphabetically, an index has been added to 

 insure the ready finding of every bit of in- 

 formation that the volume contains. (Ap- 

 pletons, $1.25). 



The Wagner Free Institute of Science, of 

 Philadelphia, issues in Volume IV of its 

 Transactions a memoir by Dr. Joseph Lcidy 

 GO. Fossil Vertebrates from the Alachua Clays 

 of Florida. Dr. Leidy was engaged on this 

 memoir at the time of his death, and it has 

 been completed and edited by Frederic A. 

 Lucas. The specimens on which it is based 

 are chiefly the bones and teeth of a species 

 of rhinoceros and of a mastodon. Others 

 pertain to three species of llama, to two of 

 hippotherium, to a tapir, another species of 

 rhinoceros, a mastodon, and a megatherium. 



The chief articles in Nos. 4 and 5 of the 

 Bulletin of the Department of Labor, May 

 and July, 1896, are chapters iii and iv of 

 the papers on Industrial Communities, by 

 W. F. Willoughby, describing respectively 

 the village of the Coal Mining Company of 

 Blanzy, France, and that of the Iron and 

 Steel Works of Friedrich Krupp, Essen, 

 Germany. No. 4 contains also an article on 

 the Sweating System, by Henry White, Gen- 



eral Secretary of the United Garment Work- 

 ers of America, in which statistics and ab- 

 stracts of recent legislation are given. In 

 No. 5 there is a set of statistics and an 

 abstract of laws passed since 1885 concern- 

 ing convict labor, which brings the greater 

 part of the information in the special report 

 of the department on this subject, made in 

 1886, down to date. Both numbers contain 

 currrent information on a variety of other 

 matters aifecting labor. 



Mr. Oeorge Haven Putnam has brought 

 out a second edition of his Question of Copy- 

 right (Putnams, $1.75) a book that is at 

 once a valuable manual and a memorial of a 

 noble struggle for honest dealings with for- 

 eign authors. The new edition brings the 

 record of copyright laws in the chief coun- 

 tries of the world down to March, 1896; it 

 contains a chapter on the results of the 

 United States law of 1891, a summary of 

 lawsuits concerned with the international 

 provisions of that law, and other new matter. 

 In a preface to the new edition Mr. Putnam, 

 while admitting that our law works better 

 than the friends of international copyright 

 expected, points out ways in which he be- 

 lieves it should be modified. 



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Agricnltural Experiment Stations. Hatch Ex- 

 periment Station (Mass.): Bulletins Nos. 40 and 41. 

 Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed 

 Fertilizers, and on the Use of Tuberculin. New 

 Hampshire College : The Tent Caterpillar. Pur- 

 due University (Ind): Commercial Fertilizers. 

 United States Department (Weather Bureau): Cli- 

 mate and Crop Service for August, 1896. 



Bailey, L. H. The Nursery Book (third edi- 

 tion) New York and London: The Macmillan 

 Co. Pp.365. $1. 



Bedell, Frederick. The Principles of the Trans- 

 former. New York and London: The Macmillan 

 Co. Pp. 416. S3.35. 



Brinton, Daniel G. The Myths of the New 

 World (third edition, revised). Philadelphia: 

 David McKay. Pp. 360. $2. 



Britton, N. L., and Brown, Addison. An Il- 

 lustrated Flora of the Nortiiern United States, 

 Canada, and the British Possessions. New York: 

 Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 612. 



Bulletins, Catalogues, etc. Brigham, A. P.: 

 Syllabus of a Course of Five Lectures on Physical 

 Geography for the Cook County Teachers' Insti- 

 tute held at Chicago University, August 31 to 

 September 4, 1890. Proceedings of the American 

 Philosophical Society, August, 18%. Sixth An- 

 nual Directory of the Scientific Alliance of New 

 York, 1896. Washington Agricultural College and 

 School of Science, Catalogue for 1896. 



Clarke, W. H. Cheerful Philosophy for 

 Thoughtful Invalids. Reading, Mass.: E. T. 

 Clarke & Co. Pp. 41. 50 cents. 



Cochrane, Robert. The Romance of Industry 

 and Invention. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Co. 

 Pp. ~'95. $1.25. 



Cohn, Dr. Lassar. Chemistry in Daily Life. 

 (Translated by M. M. Pattison Muir.) Philadel- 

 phia: Lippincott & Co. London: Gravel & Co. 

 Pp. 324. $1.75. 



Compayre, Gabriel. The Intellectual and 

 Moral Development of the Child. Translated by 

 Mary E. Wilson. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 

 Pp. 2!)8. $1.50. 



Corrigan, Severinus J. The Constitution and 

 Functions of Gases. St. Paul: Pioneer-Press Co. 

 Pp. 159. 



Day, William C. The Stone Industry in 1895. 

 (United States Geological Survey publications.) 

 Washington : Government Printing Oflice. Pp. 61. 



Dresser, Horatio W. The Perfect Whole. 

 Boston: George H. Ellis. Pp.259. $1.50. 



Education, Report of the Commissioner of, for 

 the Year 1893-'94. Washington: Government 

 Printing Office. Pp. 1061. 



Harley, Lewis R. Three Typical Educational 

 Systems. Philadelphia: LTniversity of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Pedagogical Series, Vol. I, No. 1. Pp. [/I. 



Hertwig, Oscar. The Biological Problem of 

 To-day. (Translated by P. Chalmers Mitchell.) 

 New York: The Macmiflau Co. Pp. 1'18. $1.25. 



Jordan, David Starr. Notes on Fishes little 

 Knov.n or New to Science. (Leland Stanford, Jr., 

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