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Catalogue of North American Musci. Ar- 

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A Classification tor the Natural Sciences. By 

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The Three Climates of Geology. By C. B. 

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Change as a Mental Restorative. By J. Mor- 

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Ninth Report of the State Entomologist on 

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Sanitary Reform in Japan ; A Lecture to the 

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The Anthracite Coal-Fields of Pennsylvania 

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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



American Climate and Character. Mr. 



C. Edward Young, of Hartford, Connecticut, 

 has given in " The Sanitarian " a summary 

 of the opinions which several distinguished 

 European hygienists have expressed respect- 

 ing the iufluence of our climate upon the 

 temperament and civilization of the Ameri- 

 can people. Dr. Edward Reich, in his 

 " Studien iiber die Volksseele," speaks of 

 the great difference existing between the 

 English and Americans, although they are of 

 the same race, and ascribes it to the con- 

 trast of the climates. The air of America, 

 he says, " is much too dry for the Anglo- 

 Saxon race, in point of heat too excessive ; 

 from this results the exaggerated nervous 

 activity, the excesses of the national charac- 

 ter, and the mad chase after the material 

 things of the world." Dr. Max von Petten- 

 kofer has concluded, from the investigations 

 he has made into the comparative loss of 

 heat experienced by a person breathing 

 dry air and one breathing damp air, that 

 with the dry air more heat is lost and more 

 created, and in consequence the circulation 

 is quicker and more intense, life is more 

 energetic, and there is no opportunity for 

 the excessive accumulation of fat or flesh, 

 or for the development of a phlegmatically 

 nervous temperament. Hence, in our dry 

 climate is laid the foundation of the nervous- 

 ness which characterizes our people. Dr. 

 Prosper de Pietro Santa, in his "Essai de 

 Climatologie," makes essentially the same 

 deduction. Dr. Buchner, author of " Mind 

 and Matter," has remarked, in a series of 



