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Temperature Limits of the Vitality of the 

 Mammalian Heart ; and of S. Watase on the 

 Morphology of the Compound Eye of Ar- 

 thropods. The articles requiring it are am- 

 ply and excellently illustrated. 



The Journal of Morphology, No. 3, Vol. 

 Ill, of which C. 0. Whitman and W. Phelps 

 Allis are editors, has four articles — viz. : on 

 the Embryology of the Earthworm, by Ed- 

 mund B. Wilson ; the Ribs and Median Fins 

 in Fishes, and The Morphology of the Verte- 

 brate Skull, by Dr. C. Baur ; and a discus- 

 sion, by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, of the posi- 

 tion of Chamsea (the wren-tit) in the system. 

 They are well illustrated. 



Dr. Michael Foster, in conducting The 

 Journal of Physiology, enjoys the assistance 

 of two English co-operators and of Prof. 

 H. P. Bowditch, Prof. H. Newell Martin, and 

 Prof. H. C. Wood, in the United States. 

 Numbers 1, 2, and 3 of Vol. XI contain 

 thirteen articles relating to bodily tempera- 

 ture, respiration, salivary secretion, the di- 

 gestive system, the blood, phonation, the 

 nervous system, and knee-jerk. Cambridge, 

 England. 



The quarterly University Studies, pub- 

 lished by the University of Nebraska, for 

 July, 1890, L. A. Sherman, editor, contains 

 papers on the Determination of Specific Heat 

 and of Latent Heat of Vaporization with the 

 Vapor Calorimeter, by Harold N. Allen ; the 

 Color Vocabulary of Children, by Harry K. 

 "Wolfe ; and the Development of the King's 

 Peace and the English Local Peace-Magis- 

 tracy, by George E. Howard. The last is 

 also published separately. In it the au- 

 thor, who is Professor of History in the 

 University, traces the idea of the public 

 peace of the community from the beginning 

 to the re-establishment of popular self-gov- 

 ernment in the English shire by the act of 

 Parliament of August 13, 1888. 



The quarterly Bulletin of the National 

 Association of Wool Manufacturers for 

 June, 1890, S. N. Dexter North, editor, is 

 devoted chiefly to questions concerning the 

 pending Tariff Bill and its effect on woolens. 

 An article not coming under this description 

 is a History of Wool-combing in England. 



It appears from the Calendar of the Fac- 

 ulty of Medicine of McGill University, Mont- 

 real, that the session of 1890 will be its 

 fifty-eighth, the medical school having been 



founded in 1824 and suspended during the 

 political troubles from 1836 to 1839. The 

 new building has been found admirably 

 adapted for making the teaching of the pri- 

 mary branches practical and thorough. The 

 session is from October 1st to April, with a 

 summer session of twelve weeks from the 

 middle of April. The school was attended 

 last year by 261 students. 



The first number of the first volume of 

 the Quarterly Review of the United Breth- 

 ren in Christ, which is intended to repre- 

 sent the thought of the growing religious 

 denomination of that name, J. W. Etter, 

 D. D., editor, appeared in January, 1890. 

 While its articles are intended to and do 

 appeal chiefly to churchmen, we notice as 

 of general interest that of the Rev. J. H. 

 Pershing on the Conemaugh Cataclysm ; and 

 as claiming the attention of those who wish 

 to be acquainted with various sides of 

 thought, that of Prof. J. P. Landis on Some 

 Foes of Christianity. The foes described in 

 this article are Pantheism, Materialism, Ag- 

 nosticism, Rationalism, and Socialism, which 

 are grouped as " anti-theistic theories." 



In a paper read by Dr. G. Brown Goode 

 before the American Historical Association, 

 on Museum History and Museums of History, 

 a historical review is followed by a state- 

 ment of the author's ideas of what a muse- 

 um should contain, what purposes it should 

 be intended to serve, and bow it should be 

 arranged and managed. The same author's 

 address on the Origin of the National Scien- 

 tific and Educational Institutions of the Unit- 

 ed States gives a connected view of the growth 

 of such institutions from their beginning in 

 the attempt of Mr. Boyle, Bishop Wilkins, 

 and others to establish in the colony of 

 Connecticut a society for promoting knowl- 

 edge. A third address by Dr. Goode was 

 delivered before the American Philosophical 

 Society, at the commemoration of the one 

 hundredth anniversary of the death of Ben- 

 jamin Franklin, and is on his Literary La- 

 bors. In it Dr Franklin is presented as one 

 who, although standing prominently forth as 

 the only great literary man of America in 

 colonial days and the first fifty years of the 

 Republic, had no thought of obtaining for 

 himself literary fame, but made use of what 

 he gained to promote the welfare of his 

 country. 



