LITERARY NOTICES. 



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Annual Report of the Wisconsin Geolo- 

 gical Survey for 1879. By J. C. Cham- 

 berlin, Chief Geologist. Madison, Wis- 

 consin : State Printer, 1880. 



We learn from this brief report that the 

 work of the survey is approaching comple- 

 tion. Two volumes of the reports are now 

 in the printer's hands ; and a third, which, 

 however, will be Vol. I. of the series, will 

 shortly follow, and will be devoted to the 

 general geology of the State. 



Deutsch - Amerikanische Apotheker - Zei- 

 tung. Edited by Dr. George W. Ra- 

 chel, and published by the Pharmaceuti- 

 cal Publishing Company, 5 Gold Street, 

 New York. Pp.16. Illustrated. Price, 

 $2.50 a year. 



"The Deutsch -Amerikanische Apothe- 

 ker Zeitung" (German- American Druggists' 

 Gazette) is a semi-monthly journal whieh has 

 been started in the interest and as the organ 

 of the German apothecaries, chemists, and 

 physicians, of the United States. It prom- 

 ises original articles and correspondence 

 from writers of recognized standing in their 

 respective fields, notices and reviews of all 

 that is new in the branches of science to 

 which it is devoted, for which the American 

 and European press will be consulted, mar- 

 ket reports of drugs and chemicals, and free 

 discussions. The numbers before us are 

 filled with articles and paragraphs of scien- 

 tific merit, comprehensive in scope, varied 

 in character, and abreast with the times. 



Silver in its Relation to Industry and 

 Trade : The Danger of demonetizing 

 it. The United States Monetary Com- 

 mission of 1876: Review of Professor 

 Francis Bowen's Minority Report. By 

 William Brown. Montreal : Printed 

 by the Lovell Printing and Publishing 

 Company. 1880. Pp. 134. Price, 60 

 cents. 



The purpose of this work is to present 

 the arguments in favor of retaining silver 

 money "the money of industry," as the 

 author calls it in such a manner that they 

 shall be plain to ordinary minds, and that 

 interest in the discussions on the subject 

 shall be shared by the people at large. 



The "Naturhistorische Verein fur Wis- 

 consin," which has existed as an unincor- 

 porated society in the city of Milwaukee 



for twenty-two years, has been incorporated 

 as the Natural History Society of Wiscon- 

 sin, for the purpose of investigating the 

 facts pertaining to the natural history and 

 ethnology of the State. Its first year's re- 

 port, in the German language, contains no- 

 tices of the papers read at the several meet- 

 ings of the Society, and an essay on" Life on 

 the Prairie," by Dr. Emil Ulrici. Dr. Ulrici 

 also sends us a paper (in German), of which 

 he is the author, on " the settlements of the 

 Normans in Iceland, Greenland, and North 

 America, in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh 

 centuries." 



PUBLICATIONS KECEIVED. 



Diagram of the Progress of the Anthracite 

 Coal Trade of Pennsylvania. With Statistical 

 Tahles, etc. By the Messrs. Sheafer. Potts- 

 ville, Pa. 1879. 



On Fluid Extracts as prepared for the Com- 

 ing Pharmacopoeia. Detroit. 1880. Pp.7. 



Photometric Researches. By William H. 

 Pickering. Cambridge: John Wilson & Son. 

 1880. Pp. 14. 



Therapeutic Action of Mercury, pp. 27, and 

 Mechanical Therapeutics, Chemistry, and Toxi- 

 cology of Mercury, pp. 19. By S. V. Cleven- 

 ger, M.D. Chicago. 1880. 



The Felsites and their Associated Rocks 

 north of Boston. By J. S. Diller. Pp. 13. 



High School*. By B. G. Northrop. Syra- 

 cuse : Davis, Bardeen & Co. 1880. Pp. 26. 25 

 cents. 



The School Bulletin Tear-Book for 1880. An 

 Educational Directory of the State of New York. 

 Compiled by C. W. Bardeen. Syracuse : Davis, 

 Bardeen & Co. 1880. Pp. 36, with Map. $1. 



Memoirs of the Science Department, Univer" 

 sity of Tokio, Japan. Vol. II. On Mining and 

 Mines in Japan. By C. Netto, M. E. Tokio: 

 Published by the University. 1879. Pp. 54. Il- 

 lustrated. 



On the Ethers of Uric Acid. Second Paper. 

 Dimethyluric Acid. By H. B. Hill and C. F. 

 Mabery. From " Proceedings of the American 

 Academy." Pp. 11. 



The "American Journal of Philology ." Ed- 

 ited by Basil L. Gildersleeve. Vol. I.. No 2. Bal- 

 timore : The Editor, May, 1880. Pp.126. Quar- 

 terly, $1 per number, or $3 a year. 



Bromide of Ethyl as an Anaesthetic. By J. 

 Marion Sims, M. D., LL. D. Read before the 

 New Tork Academy of Medicine, March 19, 1880. 

 Pp. 22. 



A Defense of Free Thought, together with a 

 Theory of the Origin of Morals and Religion, 

 and some Speculations on Immortality. By an 

 Agnostic. Galveston, Texas. 1880. Pp.52. 



Annual Report upon the Surveys of the 

 Northern and Northwestern Lakes, and the Mis- 

 sissippi River, in charge of C. B. Comstock. 

 Washington: Government Printing-Offlce. 1879. 

 Pp. 180. 



The Fiftv-sixth Annual Report of the Officers 

 of the Retreat, for the Insane at Hartford, Conn. 

 Hartford. 1880. Pp.36. 



Hearing by the Aid of Tissue Conduction. 

 The Month-Trumpet and the Audiphone. By 

 Samuel Sexton, M.D. New York. 1880. Pp.8. 



Researches on Hearing through the Medium 



