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Prof. Leeds, first, in an increased knowledge 

 of what constitutes clean air, clean water, 

 clean food, and clean environments, on the 

 one hand, and on the other hand what con- 

 stitutes filth in air, fi,lth in water, filth in 

 food, and filth in our environments, whether 

 it be filth mineral, vegetable, or animal ; and, 

 secondly, in a better knowledge of the 

 means of preserving cleanliness and repress- 

 ing filthiness. 



Bulletin of the Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey of the Territories 

 (Hayden's). Vol. III., No. 3. Pp. 105. 

 With Plates. Washington : Govern- 

 ment Printing-Oftice. 



Besides a series of five paleontological 

 papers by Dr. C. A. White, this number 

 of the " Bulletin " contains a brief essay by 

 E. A. Barber on the " Utah Dialects." 

 Also, one by P. Schumacher on "Method 

 of Making Stone Implements." There is 

 a paper by Dr. Coues on "Insectivorous 

 Mammals;" one by Lieutenant McCauley 

 on the " Ornithology of the Red River of 

 Texas ; " a " Catalogue of Land and Fresh- 

 Water Shells," by S. Aughey, Ph. D. ; 

 finally, " Notes on the Geographical Work 

 of the Survey," by A. D. Wilson. 



Annual Report of the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Health. Pp. 520. 

 Boston : A. J. Wright, State Printer. 



The Massachusetts health reports, of 

 which this volume is the eighth, form a se- 

 ries of public documents hardly equaled 

 for the wealth of important information 

 which they contain. The " Special Re- 

 ports "on sanitary subjects comprised in 

 the present volume are seven in number, 

 and treat of " Pollution of Streams, Disper- 

 sal of Sewage, etc. ; " " Sewerage ; " " San- 

 itary Condition of Lynn ; " " Registration 

 of Deaths and Diseases ; " " Growth of 

 Children ; " " Disease of the Mind ; " and 

 " Health of Towns." It is only by unceas- 

 ing iteration of the lesson that filth is the 

 great cause of disease, that the local au- 

 thorities of towns and cities can be aroused 

 to a sense of the danger of allowing in- 

 sanitary conditions to persist. This lesson 

 is inculcated with much force and thorough- 

 ness of research in some of the special re- 

 ports named above. 



Art-Education applied to Industry. By 

 George Ward Nichols. Pp.211. With 

 numerous Illustrations. New York : 

 Harper & Brothers. Price, $4. 

 The title of this work sufficiently indi- 

 cates its purpose, which is to promote among 

 the people an acquaintance with the princi- 

 ples of art as applied to the products of in- 

 dustry. The author would have these prin- 

 ciples taught in all grades of our schools, 

 and offers a scheme of a progressive course 

 of art-instruction which he thinks might 

 easily be adopted by directors of schools in 

 this country. He gives an account of the 

 present statre of art-education in sundry Eu- 

 ropean countries, and especially commends 

 the programme of art-education in use in 

 the public schools of Belgium. The work 

 is profusely illustrated. 



Linear Perspective. Part I. By F. R. 

 Honey. Pp. 36. With Plates. New 

 Haven: Judd & White. Price, $1.25. 



The author of this little treatise, who is 

 instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Per- 

 spective in the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 here presents to the student, with all need- 

 ed clearness, the leading principles of Linear 

 Perspective in the space of a very few pages, 

 and then proceeds to make application of 

 them to perspective drawing. The course 

 of instruction advances by easy steps from 

 the construction of the perspective of a 

 point situated in the horizontal plane to the 

 construction of the perspective of a groined 

 arch and its shadows, and of a spiral stair- 

 way. 



Annual Record of Science and Industry 

 for 1876. By Spencer F. Baird. Pp. 

 845. New York : Harper & Brothers. 

 Price, $2. 

 The "Annual Record," which from the 

 first has been recognized as the very best 

 work of its kind anywhere published, con- 

 tinues to give evidence of the skill and care 

 of its editor. The volume for 1876 contains 

 some notable improvements on all its pred- 

 ecessors. One valuable feature now added 

 is the index of authors and subjects, ap- 

 pended to the " General Summary." An- 

 other is the prefixing of the names of Prof. 

 Baird's principal collaborators to the chap- 

 ters of the " General Summary," written by 

 them. The chapter on " Astronomy" is by 

 Prof. Holden, that on "Meteorology" by 



