LITERARY NOTICES. 



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establish a connection between the Kinder- 

 garten and the public schools. The present 

 book is the first fruits of his efforts in this 

 direction, and aims to make the principles 

 of Froebel applicable to primary schools. 



Report on the Geology of the Henry 

 Mountains. By G. K. Gilbert. Wash- 

 ington : Government Printing - Office. 

 Pp. 170, with full-page Engravings and 

 Photographs. 



The author expresses a considerable de- 

 gree of satisfaction at the manner in which 

 his work in the survey of these mountains 

 has been accomplished. He had his own 

 way in conducting it, and pursued it under 

 circumstances of exceptional advantage, 

 with the result that, he says, " so thorough 

 was the display [of the formations], and 

 so satisfactory the examination, that, in 

 preparing my report, I have felt less 

 than ever before the desire to revisit the 

 field and prove my conclusions by more ex- 

 tended observation." The Henry Mount- 

 ains are not a range, and have no trend, but 

 are simply a group of five individual mount- 

 ains, separated by low passes, and -without 

 discernible system of arrangement, situated 

 in Southern Utah, on the right bank of the 

 Colorado River of the West, and between 

 its tributaries, the Fremont and tbe Esca- 

 lente. The highest peaks rise about 5,000 

 feet above the plateau at their base, and 

 11,000 feet above the level of the ocean. 

 At the time of their discovery by Professor 

 Powell they were in the center of the largest 

 unexplored district in the United States ; and 

 they are in a desert country that has hardly 

 any economic value. 



A Bibliography of Fossil Insects. By 

 Sam[jel H. Scddder. Pp. 48. 



This work forms one of the series of the 

 " Catalogue of the Library of Harvard Uni- 

 versity," and is one of the first formal at- 

 tempts to collect separately the titles of 

 papers on fossil insects. It shows the re- 

 sults of great labor, for it gives not only the 

 titles of books and papers on the subject, 

 but also a very large number of references 

 to works and essays in which fossil insects 

 are only referred to, or form one among 

 other topics of equal prominence, which 

 are touched upon in the course of a chapter, 

 essay, or book, and in all the principal lan- 



guages of science. Except when otherwise 

 stated, all the papers quoted have been ex- 

 amined by the author personally. 



Tables for the Determination, Descrip- 

 tion, and Classification of Minerals. 

 By James C. Foye, Ph. D., Professor in 

 Lawrence University. Chicago : Jansen, 

 McClurg & Co. Pp. 85. Price, $1. 



The object of this work is to furnish 

 tables by means of which students may, 

 with as few easy tests as possible, learn to 

 determine and classify minerals found in 

 the United States, and become familiar with 

 their principal characteristics. Two tables 

 serve for the determination of species ; a 

 third gives the crystalline structure and 

 other distinctive characteristics of each 

 species ; a fourth classifies the species ac- 

 cording to "Dana's Mineralogy"; and a 

 fifth classifies by basic elements and ores. 

 The appendix gives the distinctions between 

 some of the closely allied species and varie- 

 ties. A great deal of information is com- 

 pressed into a small space. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIYED. 



The Little Mountains East of the Catskills. 

 By W. M. Davis. Pp. 33. With Plate. 



Scientific Proceedings of the Ohio Mechanics' 

 Institute. Vol. I. No. 2. Cincinnati, May, 1882. 

 Pp. 50. 



Clinical Contributions to Electrical Thera- 

 peutics. By Romaiue J. Curtiss, M. D. Joliet, 

 Illinois. Pp. 52. 



Quarterly Report of the Bureau of Statistics 

 for Three Months ended March 31, 1882. Wash- 

 iugton: Government Printing- Office. Pp.96. 



Note on the Aurora of April 16-17, 1882. By 

 H. Carvill Lewis. Pp. 9. Illustrated. 



Proceedings of the National Association for 

 the Protection of the Insane and the Prevention 

 of Insanity. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 1S82. Pp. 55. 



Missouri Historical Society. Publication No. 

 6. Archaeology of Missouri. By F. H. Balder. 

 St. Louis, Missouri. Pp. 17. 



A New Theory of the Suspension System, 

 with Stiffening Truss. By A. Jay DuBois, Ph.D. 

 Pp. 43. 



Indian Languages of the Pacific States and 

 Territories, and of the Pueblos of New Mexico. 

 By Albert S. Gatschet. New York: A. S. Barnes 

 & Co. 1882. Pp. 10. 



Preventing Disease. By J. R. Black, M. D. 

 Newark, Ohio. Pp. 17. 



Charles Rohert Darwin. Bv Joseph F. James. 

 Read before the Cincinnati Society of Natural 

 History, May 2, 1882. Pp.7. 



A Bill reirulatins Rates of Postage. Boston : 

 Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers. 1882. Pp. 9. 



The Student's Guide in Quantitative Analy- 

 sis. By H. Carrino-ton Bolton, Ph. D. Illustrat- 

 ed. New York : John Wiley & Sons. 1882. Pp. 

 127. $1.50. 



