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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



the two Houses, this volume appears earlier 

 than has been usual. It also covers a 

 shorter length of time, or only half of the 

 year. The report reviews the progress of 

 work in all the departments of the Institu- 

 tion ; the explorations in which it has been 

 interested, in all parts of North America, 

 with researches in the remains of prehis- 

 toric man in parts of France ; publications, 

 including Dr. Rau's " Prehistoric Fishing in 

 Europe and North America " ; Vols. XXIV 

 and XXV of the "Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge"; the"SmithsonianMis- 

 cellaneous Collections," in which are included 

 several monographs ; the scientific writings 

 of Professor Joseph Henry ; the " Report 

 on the Reptiles and Batrachians of North 

 America " ; the " Bulletin," and " Proceed- 

 ings " of the National Museum ; and the 

 publications of the National Museum. In- 

 formation is given concerning international 

 exchanges, and lists of some four thousand 

 foreign correspondents and of the institu- 

 tions in the United States to which the 

 Smithsonian publications are sent. In the 

 " Appendix " are found the record of scien- 

 tific progress in 1885, in the several depart- 

 ments of research ; various papers relating 

 to anthropology ; an " Index to the Litera- 

 ture of Uranium," by H. Carrington Bolton ; 

 and a priced list of Smithsonian publica- 

 tions. 



wlllem usselinsk, founder of the dutch 

 and Swedish West India Companies. 

 By J. Franklin Jameson. New York : 

 G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 234, paper. 

 Price, $1. 



This memoir is one of the papers of the 

 American Historical Association (Vol. II, 

 No. 3). It is devoted to one of that class 

 of promoters of American settlement to 

 whom the author thinks that less than full 

 justice has been given "of those who, 

 without themselves having come to this 

 country, or shared in the picturesque ad- 

 ventures of the age of settlement, stood 

 behind all efforts toward colonization, and 

 assisted them in ways more prosaic, but not 

 less efficient, nor less deserving of grateful 

 remembrance the class of colonial project- 

 ors. . . . It is the object of the present 

 essay to relate in sufficient detail to enable 

 its importance to be correctly estimated, the 

 career of a member of this latter class, a 



man almost unknown to the English-reading 

 public, yet who was, though not directly the 

 founder, at any rate the originator of two of 

 our colonies that upon the Hudson, and 

 that upon the Delaware." In another place 

 Usselinsk is styled " the Lesseps of the sev- 

 enteenth century." The materials for the 

 biography have been derived from the 

 books and pamphlets of Usselinsk, his 

 manuscripts, and manuscripts concerning 

 him. The abundance and scope of these 

 sources are illustrated by the copious bib- 

 liography which is affixed to the end of the 

 work. 



Voice, Song, and Speech. By Lenox 

 Browne and Emil Behnke. New York : 

 G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 248. 



This is the seventh edition of a work to 

 the merits of which we have already called 

 attention in a notice of a previous edition 

 in the " Monthly" for July, 1884. It owes 

 its origin to the fact that each of the authors 

 one a surgeon, and the other a teacher 

 having contributed to the literature of 

 the human voice, both found their views 

 one-sided and needing to be complemented 

 from the experience of the other. They 

 therefore joined to produce a single com- 

 prehensive work. In the present edition, 

 as well as in the sixth, the substitution of 

 engravings for the expensive photographs 

 of the larynx and soft palate has made 

 possible a very considerable reduction in 

 price from that of the earlier editions. 



Local Government in Canada. By John 

 George Bourinot. Baltimore: N.Mur- 

 ray. Pp. 72. Price, 50 cents. 



This is an historical study in the series 

 of Johns Hopkins University. The author, 

 by the public positions he has held, and by 

 the preparation of an account of the " Ori- 

 gin and Growth of Parliamentary Institu- 

 tions in the Dominion," has enjoyed excel- 

 lent opportunities for qualifying himself 

 for this special research. His attention 

 was drawn to the subject through the in- 

 terest awakened by reading the histories 

 of local government in various of our own 

 States, which have appeared in this series. 

 He was convinced that a similar paper on 

 local government in Canada would be of 

 value to students of political science. The 



