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er quantities of water to the volcanic fur- 

 nace beneath. Hence the remote causes of 

 the outburst of 1883. 



Physics. By Professor George F. Bar- 

 ker. Pp. 60. Besides the results in gen- 

 eral physics, Professor Barker mentions the 

 studies that have been made in the physics 

 of liquids and gases, light, acoustics, and 

 electricity, and special applications. 



Mineralogy. By Professor E. S. Dana. 

 Pp. 26. The subject is considered under 

 the headings of " General Works on Min- 

 eralogy," " Crystallography and Physical 

 Mineralogy," "Chemical Mineralogy," "New 

 Mineral Localities in the United States and 

 elsewhere," and "New Minerals." 



Anthropology. By Professor Otis T. 

 Mason. Pp. 56. This account includes con- 

 siderable technical matter ; but we find in it 

 sections on the ethnology of the American 

 aborigines, and on the glossology, compara- 

 tive technology, sociology, and mythology 

 and folk-lore of our tribes. 



Astronomy. By William C. Winlock. 

 Mr. Winlock works as a substitute for 

 Professor E. S. Holden, whose manuscript 

 review, already prepared, was lost in remov- 

 ing his library. Faye's " Cosmological The- 

 ory," and G. H. Darwin's review of it, new 

 discoveries of nebulae, investigations of as- 

 tronomical constants, recent star catalogues, 

 studies in parallax, in variable, new, or 

 temporary stars, in stellar spectra, proper 

 motions, and photometry, astronomical pho- 

 tography, what has been done and said about 

 comets, the studies of Langley and others 

 on the sun, and of other astronomers on 

 various planets, receive attention. 



Zoology. By Professor Theodore Gill. 

 Pp. 53. The continued tendency toward the 

 special study of embryology, and of animals 

 from an cmbryological point of view, is re- 

 marked upon: At the same time systematic 

 zoology has at least maintained its course. 

 Particular mention is made of Dr. Boulen- 

 ger's catalogue of the lacertilian reptiles in 

 the British Museum, Professor Cope's " Ter- 

 tiary Vertebrata," and Professor Marsh's 

 " Dinocerata." The subject is reviewed 

 according to the various groups of the ani- 

 mal kingdom in which memoirs have ap- 

 peared. 



North American Invertebrate Pale- 

 ontology. By John Belknap Marcou. Pp. 



47. Mr. Marcou gives summaries of the 

 various monographs that were published 

 during the year, the whole furnishing a fair 

 and tolerably full representation of what 

 was accomplished. All of these reviews, 

 except the "Geography" and the "Paleon- 

 tology," which is itself a bibliography, add 

 bibliographies of their subjects, and necro- 

 logical notices. In Professor Gill's zoology 

 the bibliographical notices are given in the 

 text according to the groups to which the 

 subjects belong. 



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The Interstate Beaders. Primary, pp. 82; 

 Intermediate, pp. 32. Price of each, 30 cents for 

 ten numbers. Grammar-School, pp. 48. 15 cents 

 a number. All monthly, and No. 1, September, 

 lSb6. Chicago and Boston : Interstate Publishing 

 Company. 



The Irish Question. By the Right Hon. TV. E. 

 Gladstone. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 

 Pp. 57. 10 cents. 



The Relation of Hospitals to Medical Education. 

 By Charles Francis Withington, M. D. Boston: 

 Cupples, Upham, & Co. Pp. 47. 



Report of the Iowa Weather Service. 18S3. By 

 Dr. Gustavus Hhirichs, Director, Des Moines. Pp. 

 203. 



Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- 

 ences. Vol. V, No. 2. Pp. 52, with Plate. 



Report of American Association Committee on 

 Indexing Chemical Literature. Pp. 7. 



Catalogue of Rutgers College, at New Bruns- 

 wick, N.J. ISSS-'Se. Pp.66. 



Function : Its Evolution and Influence. By C. 

 N. Pierce, D. D. S. Philadelphia. Pp. 7. 



A New Philosophy of the Sun. By Henry Ray- 

 mond Rogers, Jamestown, N. Y. Chautauqua So- 

 ciety of History and Natural Science. Pp. 27. 



The Manifesto. August, 1886. Henry C. Blinn, 

 editor, Shaker Village, N. H. Pp. 24. 



The Silver Question. By E. J. Farmer, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. Pp. 12. 



Michigan State Board of Health. Report of 

 Proceedings. July 13, 1886. Pp.13. 



The Botanical Gazette. John M. Coulter, Charles 

 R. Barnes, and J. C. Arthur, editors. Monthly. 

 Crawfordsville, Ind. Pp. 36. 



Kupfer in den Vereinigten Staaten (Copper in 

 the United States). By E. Reyer, Vienna, Aus- 

 tria. Pp. 10. 



The Menorah. Monthly. Benjamin F. Peixotto, 

 editor. New York : No. 39 Broadway. Pp. 48. 



The Hvgiene of Nature. By Dr. Romaine J. 

 Curtiss, Jbliet, 111. Pp. 18. 



Architecture. Heating, and Ventilation of Insti- 

 tutions for the Blind. By J. F. McElroy, Adrian, 

 Mich. Pp. 21. 



Edison's Incandescent Electric Lights for Street 

 Illumination. By A. Hickenloper. Cincinnati : 

 Robert Clarke & Co. Pp. 95. 50 cents. 



Duffy's Wave-Motor as a Source of Power, etc. 

 San Francisco : Terence Duffy. Pp. 15. 



The Second Law of Thermodynamics. By Pro- 

 fessor J. Burkitt Webb. Salem, Mass. : The Salem 

 Press. Pp. 14. 



The Heart of the Fish, compared with that of 

 Menobranchus, with Special Reference to Reflex In- 

 hibition and Independent Cardiac Rhythm. By T. 

 Wesley Mills. Montreal. Pp. 11. 



