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the proper names preserved in the oldest 

 Libyan monuments and a series of similar 

 names believed to be genuine Etruscan. 



In its third edition, the Directory of 

 Writers for the Literary Press, compiled by 

 W. M. Griswold (the author, Bangor, Me., 

 $1), has been expanded to fifty-nine pages. 

 It gives the full names of writers, their ad- 

 dresses, professional positions, date of birth, 

 and subjects on which they write. The ad- 

 dresses of the chief American and English 

 periodicals, literary clubs, and colleges are 

 also included in the directory. A list of 

 authors recently dead is appended. 



A number of special papers by Dr. Edgar 

 A. Mcarns on the natural history of the 

 Western Territories and other localities tes- 

 tify to his industry and carefulness in that 

 study. Description of Supposed New Species 

 and Subspecies from Arizona gives ten spe- 

 cies and some subspecies of rodents (a squir- 

 rel, a musk-rat, mice, hares, etc.), with de- 

 tailed measurements and characteristics. A 

 paper on Arizona Mountain Birds furnishes 

 illustrations of a feature which the author 

 desires to emphasize, of the extension of the 

 Alpine flora and fauna of the Rocky Mount- 

 ains southward into this Territory, where they 

 appear on the mountains, with characters 

 changing according to the altitude, " like 

 islands in a region of more southern aspect." 

 Other papers include a list of the Birds of 

 Fort Klamath, Oregon, collected by Lieuten- 

 ant Willis Wittich, annotated and added to ; 

 and an A ddendum to a list of the Birds of 

 the Hudson Highlands, with annotations. A 

 welcome feature of these papers is that good 

 English names are given for all the species. 

 Two other papers, relative to Dr. Mearns's 

 work, are published by the Herbarium of 

 Columbia College. They are a list of the 

 plants collected by him at Fort Verde and 

 in Mogollon and San Francisco Mountains, 

 by N. L. Britten ; and the General Floral 

 Characters of those regions, by H. H. 

 Rusby. 



In a Tuhe-building Spider, Mr. W. L. 

 Poteat, of Wake Forest College, N. C, pub- 

 lishes some interesting notes on the archi- 

 tectural and feeding habits of Atypus niger. 

 In asserting that " quite unaccountably 

 American naturalists have taken compara- 

 tively little interest in spiders," the author 

 seems to overlook the voluminous contribu- 



tions of McCook, which have been acknowl- 

 edged to be among the most valuable that 

 have been made ; the more modest but very 

 intelligent and original researches of the 

 Peckhams; and the work of other authors 

 whose papers have come to us from time to 

 time — all showing that the subject has not 

 been neglected. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Agriculture, United States Department of. Treat- 

 ment of Plant Diseases. Pp. 23. 



Bainton, George. The Art of Authorship. New 

 York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 355. $1.25. 



Barus, Carl. Therm o-Electric Measurement of 

 High Temperatures. Washington: U. S. Geologi- 

 cal Survey. Pp. 313. 



Boston Society of Natural History. Correspond- 

 ence relating to the Nampa Image. Pp. 36. 



Clarke, F. W. Work done in the Division of 

 Chemistry and Physics, 18S6-"87. Washington : U. 

 S. Geological Survey. 



Dawson, G. M. Larger Unexplored Regions of 

 Canada. Pp. 12, with Map. 



De Guimps, Roger. Pestalozzi, his Life and 

 Work. New York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 438. 

 $1.25. 



Dodel, Arthur. Instruction in Drawing. Bos- 

 ton : The Prang Educational Company. Pp. 84. 



Fontaine, W. S. Potomac, or Youngest Mesozoic 

 Flora. Washington: U. S. Geological Survey. Two 

 volumes. Pp. 377, and ISO Plates. 



Foster, Michael, and others, Editors. The Jour- 

 nal of Physiology. Vol. XI, No. 3. Cambridge, 

 England. Pp. 104, with Plates. $5 a volume. 



Frazer, Persifor. The Philadelphia Meeting of 

 the International Congress of Geologists. Pp. 10. 



Fredericq, Paul. Study of History in Germany 

 and France. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University. 

 Pp. 118. $1. 



Fullerton, G. S. Sameness and Identity. Phila- 

 delphia : University of Pennsylvania. Pp. 156. 



Gardener, Helen H. A Thoughtless Yes. New 

 York : Belford Company. Pp.231. 



Geddes, Prof. Patrick, and Thomson. J. Arthur. 

 The Evolution of Sex. N ew York : Scribner & 

 Welford. Pp.332. $1.25. 



Gunton, George. Evolution of the Wages Sys- 

 tem. Boston: J. H. West. Pp.16. 10 cents. 



Halsted, Byron D., New Brunswick, N. J. Rusts, 

 Smuts, Ergots, and Rots. Pp. 19, with Plates. — 

 Stamens of Solanaceae. Pp. 4, with Plates. 



Hay, Robert. Geological Reconnaissance in 

 Southwestern Kansas. Washington : U. S. Geologi- 

 cal Survey. Pp. 48, with Map. 



Heath, D. C, «& Co. Catalogues of Publications 

 and of Modern Language Texts, 1S90. Pp. 150 

 and 58. 



Hensoldt, Dr. H., New York. Crystallogenesis. 

 Pp. 16. 



Heydenfeldt, S., Jr. The Unison of the Con- 

 scious Force. San Francisco : W. Huston & Co. 

 Pp. 30. 



Iowa College. Grimnell, Catalogue, 1889. Pp. 60. 



Kimball, John C. Evolution of Arms and Armor. 

 Boston : J. H. West. Pp.32. 10 cents. 



Kirk, Edward C, Philadelphia. The Manual 

 Training Idea in Dental Education. Pp. 26. 



Knowlton, F. H. Fossil Wood and Lignite in 

 the Potomac Formation. Washington : U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. Pp. 52, with Plates. 



Ladies' Health Protective Association of New 

 York. Report for 18S3 and 18S9. Pp. 23. 



