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" Distribution of the more Important Forest- 

 Trees in the Gulf Region." The editor con- 

 tributes observations in forestry matters 

 made by him during a recent journey in 

 Europe; Professor Spalding, of Ann Ar- 

 bor, a paper on "Forestry in Michigan"; 

 and Dr. Warder, of Ohio, accounts of ex- 

 perimental forest plantations in Iowa and 

 near Waukegan, Illinois. 



The Scientific and Technical Reader. 

 London, Edinburgh, and New York : 

 T. Nelson & Sons. Pp. 400. Price, 



The " Reader" is a compendium of brief 

 selections in different departments of sci- 

 ence, usually from standard authors, ar- 

 ranged so as to present a general order of 

 collection, and designed to instruct the 

 reader on the subjects discussed in an 

 agreeable manner. The selections are clas- 

 sified and arranged under the heads " Ge- 

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 "Zoological," "Physiological," "Physical," 

 and " Technical." 



Tables foe the Use of Students and Be- 

 ginners in Vegetable Histology. By 

 D. P. Penhallow, B. S. BostoD : S. E. 

 Cassino. Pp.41. (With blank pages for 

 notes.) 



This work was first conceived as an aid 

 to the author's own students in vegetable 

 histology. It has been prepared with the 

 aim to bring together the most prominent 

 facts and reactions of an elementary course 

 of histology in such a manner that the stu- 

 dent may have them on his work-table ready 

 for immediate and constant reference, and 

 may use them as a general guide. The work 

 being tentative, it has been deemed desirable 

 not to make it too extended till the plan has 

 been approved by qualified judges. 



Transactions of the Linnsan Society of 

 New York. Vol. I. New York: Pub- 

 lished by the Society. II. B. Bailey, Cor- 

 responding Secretary. Pp. 168. Price, 

 paper, $2 ; cloth, $3. 



The Linnacan Society of New York was 

 formed in 1S78, with eleven members, and 

 was organized with Clinton Hart Merriam 

 as president ; Ilarold Derrick as vice-pres- 

 ident ; and Ernest Ingersoll as secretary. 

 Abstracts of its proceedings and various pa- 



pers read before it have appeared in differ- 

 ent scientific serials, but it has felt the need 

 of a direct medium of publication. The 

 outgrowth of that need is the present vol- 

 ume, executed in the highest style of the 

 printer's art, with thick paper and wide 

 margins a volume worthy of the objects 

 of the society, and of the valuable and inter- 

 esting papers which it contains. The papers 

 are : " The Vertebrates of the Adirondack 

 Region, Northeastern New York (General 

 Introduction Mammalia ; Carnivora), by 

 Clinton Dart Merriam, M. D. ; " Is not the 

 Fish-Crow (Corvus ossifragus, Wilson) a 

 Winter as well as a Summer Resident at the 

 Northern Limit of its Range ? " by William 

 Dutcher ; and " A Review of the Summer 

 Birds of a Part of the Catskill Mountains, 

 with Prefatory Remarks on the Faunal and 

 Floral Features of the Region," by Eugene 

 P. Bicknell. The volume is adorned with a 

 steel-plate portrait of Linnaeus, from an old 

 engraving in the possession of Mr. L. S. 

 Foster, as a frontispiece. 



ANSICHTEN UBER DIE URSACHEN DER VuL- 



cane (Opinions on the Causes of Vol- 

 canoes). Pp. 6. NEPTUNISCH ODER 

 Plutonisch? (Neptunian or Pluton- 

 ian?) Pp. 14. Both by Ed. Reyer, 

 Vienna. 



The first of these papers is a review of 

 the three theories those of interior heat, 

 chemical action, and mechanical action of 

 the origin of volcanoes, with a discussion 

 of the causes of eruptive phenomena and 

 outbreaks. The second essay considers the 

 relations of granite, porphyry, and lava, and 

 the origin of granite. 



The Foundation Principle of Education 

 by the State. By Samuel Barnett. 

 Boston : New England Publishing Com- 

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This pamphlet includes the substance of 

 an address delivered before the joint session 

 of the National Teachers' Association and 

 the National Institute of Instruction at Sara- 

 toga, in July last. The purpose of the ad- 

 dress is to show the close connection between 

 the educational development of citizens and 

 the welfare of the State, and the interest the 

 State has in seeing that educational facili- 

 ties are provided and improved. 



