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Among the later publications by the 

 United States National Museum are de- 

 scriptive Notes of New Genera and Species 

 from the Lower Cambrian or Olenellus Zone 

 of North America, by Charles D. Walcott ; 

 New North American Acrididai, found north 

 of the Mexican Boundary, by Laurence Boe- 

 mer ; description of Two New Species of 

 Snakes from California, by Leonhard Stej- 

 neger ; Report on the Batrachians and Rep- 

 tiles collected by the United States Fish Com- 

 mission Steamer Albatross in 1887-'88, by 

 E. D. Cope ; Description of New Species of 

 Fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands and 

 along the coast of the United States of Co- 

 lombia during the same expedition, by D. S. 

 Jordan and C. H. Bollman ; and Annotated 

 Catalogue of Insects, collected by the Alba- 

 tross in 1887-88, by L. 0. Hoioard. 



Two essays on Primitive Architecture 

 have recently been published by Barr Fer- 

 ree. In one, on Sociological Influences, re- 

 printed from The American Naturalist, he 

 tells how the form and arrangement of the 

 dwelling have been modified according as 

 the occupants were a single family or sev- 

 eral families living in communism, as they 

 were sedentary or nomadic, timid or war- 

 like, etc. In the other, first published in 

 the American Anthropologist, he takes Cli- 

 matic Influences for his subject, and shows 

 how they have affected the pitch of roofs, 

 the size of windows, the closeness of walls, 

 the choice of material, etc. 



Mr. Alfred R. Wolff (New York) has 

 published a pamphlet on The Ventilation of 

 Buildings, in which he states the problem 

 that the architect has to solve, correcting 

 several popular misconceptions about venti- 

 lation, shows by what calculation the proper 

 quantity of fresh air to be supplied to the 

 inmates of a room may be found, and calls 

 attention to the fact that efficient ventilation 

 in cold weather involves additional expense 

 in heating. He then considers several meth- 

 ods of obtaining the required supply and re- 

 moval of air, and the relation of the usual 

 methods of heating to ventilation. 



The Second Annual Report of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station of Cornell Uni- 

 versity (published by the University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y.) contains the reports of the several 

 officers of the station, appended to which 

 are Bulletins 5 to 15 inclusive, dealing with 



the production of lean meat in mature 

 animals; whether heating milk affects the 

 butter made from it; fodders and feeding- 

 stuffs ; influences of certain conditions upon 

 the sprouting of seeds ; wind-breaks in their 

 relation to fruit-growing, tomatoes, deterior- 

 ation of manure, etc. Many of the papers 

 are illustrated. 



The Fourth Reading-Booh in Lippin- 

 cott's New Series, by Eben H. Davis (Lippin- 

 cott, 80 cents), is made up of selections in 

 prose and verse from standand English and 

 American authors, including some recent 

 writers, whose works are drawn upon by 

 permission of their publishers. A Chapter 

 of Suggestions for Training the Voice is pre- 

 fixed, and a list of questions for the use of 

 teachers and a vocabulary are appended. 

 The volume is illustrated. 



A collection of Heroic Ballads, edited 

 with notes by D. H. Montgomery, has just 

 been issued (Ginn, 50 cents). The vol- 

 ume contains sixty-eight ballads, among 

 which are many whose excellence has made 

 them long popular, such as Macaulay's Ho- 

 ratius, Ivry, etc. ; Aytoun's Execution of 

 Montrose, and Edinburgh after Flodden; 

 Marco Bozzaris, Casabianca, Lochinvar, Bar- 

 bara Frietchie, Sheridan's Ride, and Curfew 

 must not ring To-night. Others less famil- 

 iar are Cowper's Boadicea, Scotland's Maiden 

 Martyr, Shan Van Vocht, Song of Marion's 

 Men, The Song of the Camp, and Lowell's 

 Commemoration Ode. Explanatory notes 

 are introduced at the foot of the pages, and 

 indexes to these notes and to the authors 

 represented are appended to the volume. 



A very full treatise on whist, entitled 

 American Whist Illustrated, has been written 

 by G. W. P., the author of American Whist 

 and Whist Universal (Houghton, $1.75). 

 He states that this publication is a digest of 

 his two previous volumes, with all the 

 amendments, revisions, and changes in play 

 required by the application of recent inven- 

 tions and improvements in the practice of 

 the American game. The volume is intro- 

 duced by a short history of cards, including 

 the game of modern whist ; then follow the 

 laws of American whist and the rules of a 

 Boston whist club — the Deschapelles. In 

 his rules for original leads and his analyses 

 of the play of second, third, and fourth 

 hands, the author is liberal with reasons and 



