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Extra Census Bulletin. Report on the Cotton 

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Studies in Astronomy. By Arthur K. Bartlett. 

 Published by the author. Battle Creek, Michi- 

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"The Utah Review." Rev. Theophilus Hilton, 

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Report of Field Experiments with Fertilizers. 

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First Annual Report of the Astronomer in 

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" The Journal of the American Agricultural 

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Report on Hawaiian Leprosy. By A. W. 

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Proceedings of the California Pharmaceutical 

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The Reasoning Faculty of Animals. By Jo- 

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A Great Lawyer. By Charles C. Bonney. 

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Report of Professor Spencer F. Baird, Secre- 

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On Maximum Synchronous Glaciation. By 

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A Memoir upon Loxolophodon and Uinta- 

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Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics 

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The University of Texas. By Professor Alex- 

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Fashion in Deformity. By Professor W. H. 

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The Foreigner in China. By L. N. Wheeler, 

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A Sketch of Ancient Philosophy, from Thales 

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The Microscope and its Revelations. By 

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Catalogue of 1,098 Standard Clock and Zo- 

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The American Association at Cincin- 

 natit The thirtieth meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of 

 Science began at Cincinnati August 17th, 

 and was one of the largest and every way 

 most successful that the body has held. 

 There was an unusually strong influx of new 

 members, and the regular working force of 

 the Association was well represented. The 

 papers were many and varied, and some of 

 them results of able investigation, and show- 

 ing a well-sustained activity of original re- 

 search. As regards provision for the social 

 entertainment of the members, Cincinnati 

 demonstrated that it understands this matter 

 quite as well as Boston, and is not to be out- 

 done. Every arrangement for the comfort 

 and the pleasure of the scientists was per- 

 fect, and those veho experienced them will 

 long remember the enjoyments of the oc- 

 casion. We can not, of course, report the 

 work, and can only refer to some of the 

 more impoi'tant papers. 



The meeting began with a welcoming ad- 

 dress by Judge J, D. Cox, of Cincinnati, 

 and a response by President Brush. The an- 

 thropological and archaeological departments 

 were fully represented, a large proportion of 

 the most instructive and most novel papers 

 bearing upon that subject. The proceedings 

 of this sub-section were opened with an im- 

 portant and highly interesting address by the 

 chairman, Colonel Garrick Mallery, on " The 



