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the advance that has been made in fifty 

 years in the opportunities for medical in- 

 struction. When the university was estab- 

 lished, it was the fourth medical school 

 founded west of the Alleghanies. Louis- 

 ville alone now has as many medical schools, 

 and there are almost as many between the 

 Ohio River and the Pacific Ocean, a3 the 

 university is years old. 



Contributions to the Anatomy of Geo- 

 coccyx Calfiornianus. By R. W. 

 Shdfeldt. Pp. 281, with Four Plates. 



Geococcyx is the ground-cuckoo. The 

 author had already published a paper on 

 the genus in 1886. The present memoir, 

 which is based on a specimen obtained in 

 California, may be considered a second in- 

 stallment on the subject. While ornitholo- 

 gists usually place the genera Geococcyx and 

 Coccyzus in the same sub-family, Cocci/gince, 

 the author's examination discloses anatomi- 

 cal characters in his specimen which are 

 essentially different from the corresponding 

 ones as found in the true cuckoos. He there- 

 fore proposes for them two sub-families 

 the Centropodince, to contain the ground- 

 cuckoos ; and the Cuculince for the true 

 cuckoos ; these, with the third sub-family, 

 Crotophagince, to make up the family Cu- 

 culkla;, or North American cuckoos. 



List of Astronomical Observatories. By 

 George H. Boehmer. Washington : 

 Government Printing-Office. Pp. 16. 



The list simply gives the names of the 

 observatories and the places where they 

 are situated, classified as "American" and 

 " Foreign." The arrangement is alphabeti- 

 cal, by the names of the places. 



American Jurassic Mammals. By Pro- 

 fessor 0. C. JIarsh. Pp. 20, with Four 

 Plates. 



The author, who is in possession of all 

 the known remains of mammals from the 

 Jurassic in this country, had already pub- 

 lished several articles descriptive of them ; 

 but a large amount of new material has 

 been secured, including representatives of 

 several hundred individuals, and bones of 

 various parts of the skeleton. The fossils, 

 though fragmentary, are usually well pre- 

 served ; but, as a rule, no two bones of the 

 skeleton are found together. This fact, with 



the diminutive size of the animals and other 

 circumstances, makes investigation difficult. 

 The first specimens discovered in this coun- 

 try proved to be very near allies of Euro- 

 pean forms ; later ones resembled others 

 described by Owen, but, as the skeletons 

 were more complete, differences appeared. 

 A few American genera have no known 

 representatives in Europe, while some forms 

 found there are unknown hci'e. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Farlow, William G. Vegetable Parasites and 

 Evolution. Salem, Mass. : Salem Press. Pp. 19. 



Thomas, Cyrus. Work in Mound Exploration 

 of the Bureau of Ethnolosry. Washington : Gov- 

 ernment Printing-Office. Pp. 15. 



Willson, F. N., Princeton, N. J. A Completed 

 Nomenclature for the Principal Eoulettes. Pp. 15. 



Abbott, Helen C. De S., Philadelphia. Plant 

 Analysis as an Applied Science. Pp 35 ; Plant 

 Chemistry as illustrated in the Production of Sugar 

 from Sorghum. Pp. 16. 



Huston, H. A., Director, Lafayette, Ind. The 

 Indiana Signal Service, July, 1S87. Pp. 10. 



Hay, O. P., Irvington, Ind. A Preliminary 

 Catalogue of the Amphibia of the State of Indiana. 

 Pp. 10. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Indiana. 

 Pp. 23. 



Jordan, David S., and Evermann, Barton W. 

 The Food-Fishes of Indiana. Pp. 16. 



Parker, Professor H. W., Grinnell, la. Fruit 

 and Fruit Culture as related to Health. Pp. 8. 



Shufeldt, R. W., M. D. The Skull in the 

 Apaches. Pp. 10. 



Weed, Clarence M. Notes on some Illinois Mi- 

 crogasters. Pp. 8. 



Godfrey. John, Louisville, Ky. Medicine and 

 Medicine-Men (Poem). Pp 34. 



Investigation of the New Tork City Asylum for 

 the Insane. Report of the State Board of Charities. 

 Pp. 43. 



Colonial and International Congress on Inebrie- 

 ty. London. Report of a Reception given to T. D. 

 Crothers, M. D., London. Pp. 15. 



Crothers, T. D., M. D., Hartford, Conn. The 

 Alcoholic Question Medically considered. Pp. 5. 

 Temperance, Parties, Politics. Pp. 3. 



Iowa State Board of Health, Monthly Bulletin, 

 August, 1887. Pp. 16. 



Bulletin of the New England Meteorological So- 

 ciety. June and July, 1SS7. 1'p 7 each. 



The Workhouse, New York City. Report of 

 State Board of Chanties. Pp.15. 



Perkins, J. McC. Letters-Patent for Inven- 

 tions. Boston: Rand, Avery & Co. Pp. 24. 25 

 cents. 



Georgia, Department of Agriculture. Crop Re- 

 port for August, 1887. 



Riley, C. V. United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture : Division of Entomology. Reports of 

 Practical Work. Pp. 62. The Icerya, or Fluted 

 Scale, otherwise known as the Cottony Cushion- 

 Scale. Pp. 40. Washington : Government Print- 

 ing-Office. 



McGill University, Montreal. Faculty of Medi- 

 cine. Annual Calendar, 1887-88. Pp. 91. 



Vassar Brothers' Institute, Ponghkeepsie, New 

 Tork. Transactions in the Scientific Section. Pp. 

 2S2. 



Garden City Dairy Company of Chicago. An 

 Abstract of the" Oleomargarine Question. Pp. 30. 



