LITERARY NOTICES. 



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pared with rapidity, but the reader, we 

 think, will find few traces of it. They were 

 written out with extreme care, and, in viv- 

 idness of description, felicity of illustration, 

 and transparent clearness, they fall below 

 nothing that this author has given us be- 

 fore. The text is accompanied with numer- 

 ous neatly-executed cuts of apparatus and 

 experiments, which will aid the thousands 

 who heard the lectures to recall the scenes 

 and circumstances of their delivery, while 

 other thousands, who saved their time and 

 money by absence, will get the result of the 

 professor's teachings in a form by no means 

 unsatisfactory. 



Prof. Tyndall came to this country, not 

 to have a " good time," but to do hard 

 work ; and he worked hard, not to profit 

 himself, but to promote the interests of sci- 

 ence, which he has most at heart. And he 

 not only gave his talent, his exertion, and 

 six months of his precious time, to this ob- 

 ject, but he left all the profits of the enter- 

 prise to be used for promoting scientific 

 education. 



Prof. Tyndall's receipts from his lectures 

 in the several cities were as follows : 



Boston, six lectures $1,500 



Philadelphia, six lectures 3,000 



Baltimore, three lectures 1,000 



Washington, six lectu res 2,000 



New York, six lectures 8,500 



Brooklyn, six lectures 6,100 



New Haven, two lectures 1,000 



Total $23,100 



Of this amount, the surplus above ex- 

 penses, amounting to upward of $13,000, 

 was conveyed, by an article of trust, to the 

 charge of a committee, of which Prof. 

 Joseph Henry is chairman, and which is 

 authorized to expend the interest in aid of 

 students who devote themselves to original 

 researches. This is certainly a noble exam- 

 ple, and deserves to be emulated. 



The " Proceedings of the Farewell Ban- 

 quet to Prof. Tyndall " are now in press, 

 and are soon to be published in a pamphlet. 

 It will contain letters from the scientific 

 men throughout the country, and all the 

 speeches delivered on the occasion, revised 

 by their authors. 



Arrangements have been made by the 

 firm of Holt & Williams to furnish the 

 Fortnightly Review to American subscribers 



at the reduced price of $6.00 a year, or 

 50 cents a number. This able periodi- 

 cal was projected and established by 

 Mr. George H. Lewes, some ten years ago, 

 and was at first, as its name implies, pub- 

 lished once a fortnight. It was modelled 

 on the* plan of the Revue des Deux Mondcs, 

 the leading French periodical, which is is- 

 sued every two weeks. After three or four 

 years, however, Mr. Lewes withdrew from 

 his management, and it was changed to a 

 monthly, under the editorship of Mr. Mor- 

 ley, author of the excellent papers on Vol- 

 taire and Rousseau. The Fortnightly is 

 the chief organ of the Positivist writers in 

 England, such as Mill, Harrison, Brydges, 

 and contains much able discussion of radical 

 politics and advanced philosophy. 



Annals of Bee Culture, for 1872, D. L. 

 Adair, Editor (published by John P. Mor- 

 ton, Louisville, Ky.), contains twenty-two 

 papers by well-known authorities on matters 

 relating to the apiary. The opening article, 

 "The Genesis of the Honey-Bee," by the 

 editor, will well repay an attentive perusal. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 

 Manual of Paleontology. By Henry 

 Alleyne Nicholson. Edinburgh, 1S72. Black- 

 wood. 



Caliban : the Missing Link. By Daniel 

 Wilson, LL. D. London and New York : 

 Macmillan. 



Modern Diabolism ; Commonly called 

 Modern Spiritualism. With New Theories 

 of Light, Heat, etc. By M. J. Williamson. 

 New York, 1873. James Miller. (Not 

 worth reading.) 



Arrangement of the Families of Fishes 

 (Smithsonian . Miscellaneous Collections, 

 24*7). By Theodore Gill, M. D., Ph. D. 

 Washington, 1872. . 



Arrangement of the Families of Mam- 

 mals. Same author. 



Traction Engines and Steam Road-roll- 

 ers. By Prof. R. H. Thurston, of Stevens 

 Institute of Technology. 



Lecture before the Burlington Library 

 Association, by Philip Harvey, M. D. 



Birds of North America. 



What Physiological Value has Phos- 



