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THE POPULAR SCIJENCE MONTHLY. 



hibiting the distribution of the principal 

 agricultural products. Any one who will 

 familiarize himself a little with these maps, 

 and then deliberately read the book, will 

 probably get a great deal more knowledge 

 than he could obtain by months of travel 

 in the Russian Empire. 



Report of the Commissioners op Agri- 

 culture FOR THE Year 1875. Pp. 536. 

 Washington: Government Printing-Of- 

 fice. 



Opr readers are not altogether unfamil- 

 iar with the matter contained in this " Re- 

 port," for we have from time to time dur- 

 ing the past year made selections from the 

 monthly reports, especially of observations 

 and experiments made by Mr. Glover and 

 Mr. McMurtrie, respectively the botanist 

 and the chemist of the department. These 

 are repeated in the annual report, or, rath- 

 er, they are bound up with it. The volume 

 also contains papers on the forest-trees of 

 the United States, varieties of fruits, alfalfa, 

 the French mode of curing forage, hog- 

 cholera, and several other subjects of in- 

 terest to the agriculturist. 



Properties of Continuous Bridges. By 

 C. Bender, C. E. Pp. 150. Also, Boil- 

 er - Incrustation. By F. J. Rowan. 

 Pp. 88. New York : Van Nostrand. 

 Price, 50 cents each. 



The series of handy volumes on applied 

 science to which these two treatises belong 

 needs no commendation from us. The 

 works are of a severely practical nature, 

 and their merits are well understood by the 

 engineers and mechanicians to whom they 

 are addressed. 



Effects of Alcoholic Poison. By J. H. 

 Kellogg, M. D. Battle Creek, Michi- 

 gan : Health Reformer print. Pp. 1 24. 

 Price, 25 cents. 



Dr. Kellogg attempts in this little 

 pamphlet to discuss the question of alco- 

 hol in "its physical, moral, and social ef- 

 fects," and yet he finds room for a long 

 chapter of twenty-seven pages on "Wine 

 and the Bible," in which he wrestles man- 

 fully with such contradictory texts as those 

 which call wine " cruel venom of asps," 

 and those which say that " it maketh the 

 heart glad." 



The Jukes : A Study in Crime, Pauperism, 

 Disease, and Heredity. Also, Further 

 Studies of Criminals. By R. L. Dug- 

 dale, Member of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Prison Association, New 

 York. With an Introduction by Elisha 

 Harris, M. D., Corresponding Secretary 

 Prison Association. New York : G. P. 

 Putnam's Sous. 



The title-page is itself a history of this 

 remarkable work. . To the student of the 

 social sciences this pamphlet is a valuable 

 contribution, giving as it does in tabulated 

 details the lives of a family of large num- 

 bers, whose condition had become so fixedly 

 criminal that harlotry, bastardy, and a ca- 

 reer of law-breaking, ever gravitating prison- 

 ward, had become the inevitable heirship of 

 the " Jukes," the word itself becoming a 

 synonym of evil. 



Early Migrations. Origin of the Chinese 

 Race. Philosophy of their Early De- 

 velopment, with an Inquiry into the Evi- 

 dences of their American Origin ; sug- 

 gesting the Great Antiquity of Races on 

 the Americi'i Continent. 



Japanese Wrecks, stranded and picked up 

 adrift in the North Pacific Ocean, eth- 

 nologically considered.,, 



Early Maritime Intercourse of Ancient 

 Western Nations, chronologically ar- 

 ranged and ethnologically considered. 



The above are from the " Proceedings 

 of the California Academy of Sciences," 

 1876 ; each has the common heading, "Early 

 Migrations," and their author is Charles 

 Wolcott Brooks. The pamphlets give evi- 

 dence of large research, and are at least in- 

 genious. The drift is toward the settlement 

 of China from the American Continent, 

 probably Peru. Is not the following state- 

 ment made carelessly? " North American 

 Indians have never been cannibals" (" Ori- 

 gin of the Chinese Race," p. 27). Do not 

 the discoveries of the late Prof. Wyman, in 

 the shell - heaps of Florida, speak to the 

 contrary ? 



Address before the St. Louis Academy 

 OF Science, at its Annual Meeting for 

 1877, by the President, Charles V. Rei- 

 ley. St. Louis, Mo. : R. P. Studley & 

 Co. 

 An interesting resume of the year, in 



matters pertaining to the biological sciences, 



with, perhaps, a special attention to home 



work. 



