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Straits of Corea. The country has always 

 been exclusive in its policy, this exclusion 

 extending in later years even to its near 

 neighbors, China and Japan, so that very 

 little has been known of the physical fea- 

 tures of the country or of the habits and 

 character of its people. The country for 

 centuries has been at war with China and 

 Japan, and the scene, of fierce internal feuds, 

 and only latterly has it been able to secure 

 itself against its foreign enemies and unite 

 into one kingdom under one ruler. It has 

 been supposed that the Corean Peninsula 

 was settled from China, but this, Mr. Oppert 

 declares, is an utter mistake. The Coreans 

 differ widely in their customs from the Chi- 

 nese, and do not present the physical ap- 

 pearance to justify such an origin. The 

 upper classes of the Coreans are of a Cau- 

 casian type and the lower of a Mongolian 

 one. The country is destitute of native his- 

 tories, and the people profess to know no- 

 thing of their origin, though some of the 

 aristocratic classes have fabulous accounts 

 of it. The author gives much interesting 

 matter concerning the customs, institutions, 

 and natural features of the country, and 

 feels impatient at its seclusion from the 

 trade of the world, and appears to think a 

 forcible opening of it desirable. 



United States Geological and Geographi- 

 cal Survey of Colorado and Adja- 

 cent Territories in 1876. By F. V. 

 Hayden. Washington : Government 

 Printing-Office. 18T8. 

 Tins is the tenth annual report of the 

 survey under the direction of Professor 

 Hayden, and is devoted to the survey com- 

 pleting the work in Colorado and portions 

 of adjacent Territories. The report consists 

 of an account of the work done in the geol- 

 ogy, topography, archaeology and ethnology, 

 and paleontology and zoology of the region. 

 The report has a number of excellent maps, 

 and numerous lithographic plates of the 

 ancient mines examined, and of specimens 

 of the pottery, both ancient and modern, of 

 the natives of the region. 



Sunshine and Storm in the East. By Mrs. 

 Brassey. New York : Henry Holt & Co. 

 1880. Pp. 438. Price, $3.50. 



Those who enjoyed Mrs. Brassey's ac- 

 count of her "Voyage in the Sunbeam" 



will welcome her present account of her two 

 visits to Cyprus and Constantinople. The 

 book is in the form of a diary, which is 

 not, it seems to us, a very interesting way 

 of presenting the scenes and incidents of 

 travel. The work is profusely illustrated 

 and handsomely printed on heavy calendered 

 paper. The cover strikes us as somewhat 

 flashy, but is designed, we presume to be 

 artistic. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Does Spiritualism transcend Natural Law? 

 By W. G. Stevenson, M. D. 1880. Pp. 25. 



Interoceanic Ship-Railway. Remarks of Dr. 

 William F. Channing before Select Committee 

 of the House of Representatives, March 27, 1880. 

 With Exhibits. Pp. 10. 



The Education of the Blind. An Address be- 

 fore the Wisconsin Teachers' Association, July 

 10, 1879. By Mrs. Sarah P. C. Little. Pp. 15. 



A Catalogue of the Birds of Indiana, with Keys 

 and Descriptions of the Groups of Greatest In- 

 terest to the Horticulturist. By Alembert W. 

 Brayton, B. S., M D. Indianapolis : Douglass & 

 Carlow. 1880. Pp. 77. 



Remarks of Hon. Barton A. Hepburn in 

 Support of the Bill entitled " An Act to regu- 

 late ihe Transportation of Freight, by Railroad 

 Corporations." Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co. 

 1880. Pp. 30. 



A Study of some of the Starches. By Mrs. 

 Lou Reed Stowell. Ann Arbor. 1880. Pp.17. 



College Libraries as Aids to Instruction. 

 Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation. No. 1. 1880. Washington : Government 

 Printing-office. Pp. 27. 



The Unity Pulpit. Boston. Sermons of M. J. 

 Savage. No. 21. "Tiie Straggle and Triumph 

 of Man." No. 22, " Patience." No. 23, " The 

 Nearness of God." No. 24, " Faithfulness." Bv 

 W. H. Savage. No. 25, Series of Talks about 

 Jesus : I. " Sources of our Knowledge." No. 

 26. "Channing UnitariaDism."' No. 27, Talks 

 about Jesus: II. "The Miraculous." No. 28, 

 Talks about Jesus: III. "Birth and Childhood." 

 On the Removal of Foreign Bodies from the 

 Ear: With Four Cases. By Charles Stedman 

 Bull, M.D. New York. 1880. Pp.9. 



Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Chemung 

 County, New York. By W. H. Gregg, M.D. 

 Elmira. 1880. Pp. 25. 



Report of the Director of the Central Park 

 Menagerie. New York : M. B. Brown, Printer. 

 1880. Pp. 32. 



Railway Land Grants of the United States. 

 By F. H. Talbot. Chicago : The Railway Age 

 Publishing Company. 1880. Pp. 66. 



Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class 

 of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylva- 

 nia. Bv Frances Emily White, M. D. Philadel- 

 phia: Grant, Faires & Rodgers, Printers. 18S0. 

 Pp. 16. 



The Tongue of the Honey-Bee. By Profes- 

 sor A. J. Cook. Reprint from "The American 

 Naturalist." Illustrated. Pp. 9. 



On the Foramina perforating the Posterior 

 Part of the Squamosal Bone of the Mammalia. 

 ByE. D. Cope. Pp.10. 



A Review of the Modern Doctrine of Evolu- 

 tion. By E. D. Cope. Reprint from " The Amer- 

 ican Naturalist." Illustrated. Pp. 21. 



Some Thoughts and Facts concerning the 



