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States, perhaps, presenting such varied and 

 remarkable records of this kind. Yet, while 

 the State has furni.-hed much of interest to 

 the sciences of geology and paleontology, the 

 published accounts in these departments are 

 confined to scattered and abstruse papers 

 accessible only to the specialist. The present 

 publication is an effort to put this knowl- 

 edge, so far as the particular formation to 

 which it relates is concerned, within the 

 reach of students. Professor Williston has 

 been engaged for twelve years in the study of 

 the geology and paleontology of the State, 

 having spent more than three years in field 

 exploration, and has been eight years col- 

 lecting material for his book, enjoying the 

 advantage of access to the very important 

 collection of the university. Much of the 

 information is here published for the first 

 time. The fossils of the western part of the 

 State only are described in it, for the sole 

 reason that more preparatory work has been 

 done on them in the university in recent 

 years ; but other departments are in prepa- 

 ration and will appear in due course. The 

 fossils described are birds, dinosaurs, croco- 

 diles, mosasaurs, turtles, microscopic organ- 

 izations, and invertebrates, all of the Upper 

 Cretaceous. 



In a paper on TJie Relations of the People 

 of the United States to the English and the 

 Germans, read before the Thursday Club of 

 Chicago, Mr. William Vntke undertakes a 

 defense of the Germans against a supposi- 

 tion that they are hostile to the United 

 States. This is right, if the Germans need 

 defense, which we doubt; but to give his 

 thesis the shape of an attack on England, as 

 is done in the paper, is unnecessary. 



The account of the investigations con- 

 ducted by Dr. D. N. Bergey under the super- 

 vision of Drs. J. S. Billings and S. Weir 

 Mitchell, on the Influence upon the Vital He 

 sistance of Animals to the Micro-organisms 

 of Disease, brought about by a Long Sojourn 

 in Impure Atmosphere, already referred to 

 in the Monthly, is published under the Hodg- 

 kins Fund in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Contributions. 



The Report of the United States National 

 Museum which we are called upon to notice 

 U for the year 1895, and bears the signature 

 of G. Broun Goode. It embraces accounts 



of the origin and development of the museum, 

 its organization and scope, and its work in 

 public education; reviews of the special 

 topics in its operations for the year; synop- 

 ses of the scientific work in various depart- 

 ments ; the administrative reports ; appen- 

 dixes relating to accessions to the collections, 

 lectures, meetings, etc. ; and a number of 

 special papers of great value and interest, 

 including an account of the Kwakiutl Indians, 

 by Franz Boas; The Graphic Art of the 

 Eskimos, by W. J. Hoffman ; The Geology 

 and Natural History of Lower California, by 

 G. P. Merrill ; The Tongues of Birds, by F. 

 A. Lucas ; The Ontonagon Copper Bowlder 

 in the United States Museum, by Charles 

 Moore ; The Antiquity of the Red Race in 

 America, by Thomas Nilsen; and accounts 

 of the Mineralogical Collections in the 

 Museum, by Wirt Tassin, and of the Taxider- 

 mical Methods in the Leyden Museum, Hol- 

 land, by Dr. Shufeldt. 



The Dawn of the Twentieth Century is a 

 poem, described by the author, Charles P. 

 Whaley, as his first sermon, dedicated to 

 rationalism. He describes himself as hav- 

 ing recovered from " a severe attack of or- 

 thodoxy," which deprived him for the time 

 of the power of logical reason, and to have 

 at last discerned a theology, " founded upon 

 absolute, demonstrable scientific facts," 

 which is to prevail in the next century. 

 His poem presents his view of that theology. 



In the September number of the Quar- 

 terly Review, The New World, an article by 

 Prof. Otto Pfleidener on Evolution and The- 

 ology, defines the task of Ecclesiastical 

 Protestantism after having abandoned the 

 ethical ideals of mediaeval Christianity, as 

 being "for a still wider development, to 

 strike off the dogmatic fetters of ecclesiasti- 

 cal criticism, and to clothe its religious prin- 

 ciple in new forms of thought, which shall 

 render for our age the same service that the 

 Greek and Roman dogmas rendered for the 

 earlier time." In an article on Social and 

 Individual Evolution, Mr. Henry Jones main- 

 tains that the social tendencies of the pres- 

 ent day point to a limitation of individual 

 independence and enterprise. 



A contribution to the anthropology of 

 the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Facial 

 Paintings of the Indians of Northern British 



