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and H. W. Kircliner. The system includes 

 an elevated track, with aeroplane sails as 

 one of the sources of motor power. (St. 

 Louis, Mo.) 



Parts VIII and IX of ff. H. Bancroft's 

 Book of the Fair are devoted to the Wom- 

 an's Exhibits, the Children's Department, 

 and the Machinery and Agricultural Halls. 

 (The Bancroft Company, Chicago. Price, 

 $1 each.) 



Entolai may be characterized as a " phil- 

 osophical romance," or as a life history, 

 with a religious element, described other- 

 wise by the author, A. M. Bourhnd, as a 

 letter to those he loves about science and 

 the ideal. Its purport may be conceived 

 from the dedication : " To those whose love 

 of Nature has so thoroughly possessed them 

 that they have been able to escape from 

 every vestige of superstition, and as a con- 

 sequence of which have embraced an un- 

 faltering faith in the loving confidence in 

 righteousness, that sustains all things, and 

 rejoices in all truth." (Van Buren, Ark. : 

 Lloyd Garrison.) 



From EartJi's Cejiter : A Polar Gateivay 

 Message, is the title of a story embodying a 

 thinly disguised teaching of some of the 

 doctrines of the Edward Bellamy school, by 

 S. Byron Welcome. A country within the 

 earth, reached by means of a polar current, 

 is supposed, where the ideal prevails of the 

 conditions imagined by the dreamers of the 

 class we have referred to. 



Among recent bulletins of the United 

 States Geological Survey is a Report of Work 

 done in the THvision of Chemistry and Physics, 

 for 1890-'91, by Frank W. Clarke, which is 

 occupied mainly with analyses of minerals 

 and meteorites. Another bulletin is a Record 

 of North American Geology for 1890, by 

 Nelson H. Barton, being an alphabetical 

 author and subject bibliography of books 

 and essays in periodicals, dealing with North 

 American geology, and received by the Sur- 

 vey in 1890. Works on general geological 

 subjects, if printed in North America, are 

 also inehuled. Samuel H. Scudder describes 

 in another bulletin, with three plates. Some 

 Insects of Special Interest from Florissant, 

 Colorado. Still another is a record of Earth- 

 quakes in California in 1S90 and 1891, by 

 Edward S. Holden. It consists of an ob- 

 servation of each shock made at the Lick 



Observatory, together with brief descriptions 

 from many city and country newspapers in 

 various parts of the State. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins 

 and Reports. Alabama : Experiments in Crossing 

 Cottons. Pp. 48, with Plates. Delaware: Straw- 

 berries. Pp. 10. Massachusetts: Analyses of 

 Commercial Fertilizers. Pp. 8. New York: On 

 Legal Standard for Cheese. Pp. 20. Preventing 

 Leaf Blight. Pp. 6. North Dakota: Weather and 

 Crop Service for June, 1894. Pp 15. 



Bendire, Charles. Nests and Eggs of New 

 Birds from Island near Madagascar. Pp. 3. 



Binet, Alfred. Psychologie des Grands Calcu- 

 lateurs et Joueurs d'Echecs (Psychology of Great 

 Calculators and Chess Players). Paris: Hachette 

 & Cie. Pp. 361. 



Bird, Charles. Geology. A Manual for Stu- 

 dents in Advanced Classes, and for General 

 Headers. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 

 Pp. 429. $2.2o. 



Brinton, D. G. The " Nation " as an Element 

 in Anthropology. Pp. 16. On Various Supposed 

 Relations between the American and Asian Races. 

 Pp. 16. The Alphabets of the Berbers. Pp. 11. 



Call, R. E. On the Geographic and Hypso- 

 metric Distribution of North American Vivipari- 

 dae. Pp. 12, with Map. 



Carus, Dr. Paul. The Nature of the State. 

 Chicago; The Open Court Publishing Ccmpany. 

 Pp. .56. 25 cents. 



Cooke, Ebenezer, Editor. Pestalozzi's How 

 Nature Teaches her Children. Syracuse, N. Y.: 



C. W. Bardeen. Pp. 206. $1.50. 



Dall, William H. Monograph of the Genus 

 Gnathodon, Gray. Washington: United States 

 National Museum. Pp. 18, with Plate. 



Dean, Lee Parker. The Evolution of Worlds 

 from Nebukr. Bridgeport, Conn.: The Marigold 

 Printbig Company. Pp. 84. 



Earl, Alfred. Practical Lessons in Physical 

 Measurement. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 

 350. $1.35. 



Farrington, Oliver C. An Analysis of Jadeite 

 from Mogoung, Burma. Pp. 3. 



Fewkes, J. Walter. A Study of Certain Figures 

 in a Maya Corfex. Reprint from the American 

 Anthropologist. Pp. 16, with Plates. 



Frankland, Dr. and Mrs. Percy. Micro-or- 

 ganisms in Water. New York: Longmans, Green 

 & Co. Pp. .'533. $5. 



Frost, Edwin Brant, Translator and Editor. 

 Dr. J. Scheiner's Treatise on Astronomical Spec- 

 troscopy. Boston: Ginu & Co. Pp. 482, with 

 Plates. $5. 



Gebhard, William Paul. On Testing House 

 Drains and Plumbing Work. Pp. 8. Tne Rela- 

 tions between Gas Companies and C4as Consumers. 

 Pp. 7. Artificial Illumination. P)). 8. 



Gill, Theodore The Nomenclature of the 

 Family Poecilidas or Cyprinodontida\ Pp. 2. 

 The Differential Characters of the Salmonida; 

 and Thymallidaj. Pp. 0. The Relations and 

 Nomenclature of Stizostidion or Lucioperea. Pp. 

 6. The Nomenclature r.nd Characteristics of the 

 Lampreys. Pp. 4. All United States National 

 Museum, Washington. 



Houston, Edwin J. A Dictionary of Electrical 

 Words New York : The W. J. Johnston Com- 

 pany, Limited. Pj). 669. $5. 



Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to 

 the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. New York: 



D. Appleton A Co. Pp. 234. $1.25. 



Huxley, Thomas H. Discourses, Biological 

 and Geological. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 

 Pp. 388. $1.25. 



