136 NATURAL SCIENCE. Feb., 1895. 



New Serials. 



In September, 1894, tne Para Museum issued no. 1 of the Boletim do 

 Museu Paraense de Historic, Natural e Ethnographia. The part contains 

 papers on " Archaeology and Ethnography of Brazil," by F. Penna ; 

 " Notes on the Spiders of Brazil," by Dr. E. Goeldi; " Notes on some 

 Terrestrial Worms of Brazil," by Dr. Goeldi; and " Observations and 

 Impressions of a Journey from Rio to Para," by the same. A 

 portrait is given of Governor Lauro Sodre, to whose kindly interest 

 the Para Museum has been much indebted. 



L'Ami des Sciences Naturelles is the title of a new monthly devoted to 

 zoology, botany, and geology. The new journal is edited by Mr. E. 

 Benderitter, and is published at Rouen. 



Dr. Roux is the editor of a new serial devoted to experimental 

 morphology, Archiv fiiv Entwickelungsniechamk der Ovganismen, for 

 which Mr. Engelmann, of Leipzig, is the publisher. The opening 

 paper of the first number gives an interesting account of the methods 

 and objects of this biological study. 



The New York Nation says that our American contemporary 

 Science is to be revived under an editorial committee. Among the 

 names of the committee mentioned are Professors O. C. Marsh, 

 H. P. Bowditch, W. K. Brooks, N. L. Britton, and Drs. Hart 

 Merriam, J. W. Powell, and D. G. Brinton. 



The Footpath is a new paper that purports to deal with natural 

 history. Having been so fortunate as to obtain a letter by Mr. 

 Gladstone in praise of natural history for the young, it has received 

 some notice from the public Press. We, however, have not as yet 

 been afforded an opportunity of judging as to the merits of its other 

 contents. 



Under the direction of the well-known psychologists, Beaunis, 

 Binet, Ribot, Delabarre, Flournoy, and Weeks, an annual record of 

 psychological progress is projected. The first volume will abstract 

 all books on psychology issued during 1894, an( ^ w ^ index all papers 

 published during the same period that deal with the histology, 

 anatomy, and psychology of the nervous system in man and animals, 

 also including its pathology. This new review will also serve as the 

 organ of the psychological laboratory at the Sorbonne. 



The first yearly volume of Taschenbuch fiiv Braunkohlen-Interessenten 

 des novdivestlichen Buhmens has recently appeared at Teplitz. It consists 

 of 80 pages, with a map. 



Dr. C. R. Keyes, whose appointment as Assistant State-Geologist 

 of Iowa we duly chronicled, has proved his worth in the newly-started 

 Annual Report. The first volume contains a description of the 

 geological formations of the State, and a Bibliography ; the second 

 is devoted to the coal-bearing rocks. The illustrations in both are 

 exceptionally good, for Dr. Keyes is an artist as well as a geologist. 

 One of them is a photograph, taken in winter, of The Cascade, near 

 Burlington ; the frozen waterfall hangs in huge icicles from the pro- 

 jecting ledge of " Augusta Limestone " (a term here applied to the 

 Burlington and Keokuk Limestones combined), while behind are seen 

 the soft underlying Kinderhook beds. We explain this obvious 

 illustration, since it was reproduced by a scientific contemporary as 

 an instance of "a curious formation" of limestone giving "the 

 appearance of a cascade." There are curious things in nature, but 

 this is not one of them : the error has been ingeniously (not in- 

 genuously) corrected. 



