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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



by Livingston Stone ; and Deep-Sea Explora- 

 tion, with a general description of the steamer 

 Albatross, her appliances and methods, by Z. 

 L. Tanner. 



The Fourteenth Annual Report of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology for 1893-'94 (J. W. 

 Powell, Director) presents the results of a 

 full year of study by the members of the 

 Bureau, the publication of which in book 

 form has been so delayed that they are 

 hardly longer new to the public, and several 

 authors whose works are referred to in the 

 administrative report — Mallery, Pilling, Dor- 

 sey, among them — have died. The adminis- 

 trative report gives a clear account of the 

 classification of the work of the bureau, and 

 of the labor of its agents in various fields, 

 showing that a large amount of information 

 is being accumulated, while the original and 

 living sources are still accessible, which 

 might, if the studies were long delayed, be 

 irrecoverably lost, and which is destined to 

 be of incalculable value to students of man- 

 kind. The special papers, published in full 

 with ample illustration, are Stone Imple- 

 ments of the Potomac - Chesapeake Tide- 

 water Province, by W. H. Holmes ; The 

 Siouan Indians, a Preliminary Sketch, by W 

 J McGee ; Siouan Sociology, a Posthumous 

 paper, by J. 0. Dorsey ; Tusayan Katcinas, 

 by J. W. Fewkes ; and The Repair of Casa 

 Grande Ruin, Arizona, by Cosmos Mindeleff. 



Part second of Volume XXVI of the 

 Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of 

 Harvard College, comprising Miscellaneous 

 Investigations of the Henry Draper Memo- 

 rial, gives first a Review of Progress during 

 the Years 1891 to 1894, followed by ac- 

 counts of Observations on the Distribution 

 of Stars in Clusters, Measurement of Posi- 

 tions and of Brightness and Spectra of Stars 

 in Clusters. These articles are illustrated by 

 eleven excellent photographic plates, record- 

 ing and communicating to the eye what was 

 seen. 



The Seventeenth Annual Report of the 

 United States Geological Survey, covering 

 the work of the fiscal year 1895-'96, is pub- 

 lished in two parts, constituting two very large 

 volumes of 1076 and 864 pages. The first 

 part, besides the director's report, in which 

 the work of the various branches of the sur- 

 vey is described, contains papers on Mag- 



netic Declination in the United States, by 

 Henry Gannett ; A Geological Reconnois- 

 sance of Northwestern Oregon, by J. S. 

 Ditler; The Geology of the Sierra Nevada, 

 by R. W. Turner ; The Coal and Lignite of 

 Alaska, by W. H. Dall ; Glacial Brick Clays 

 of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massa- 

 chusetts, by N. S. Shaler and others; and 

 the Eocene and Upper Cretaceous of the 

 Pacific Coast, by T. W. Stanton. The sec- 

 ond part contains papers on the Gold Quartz 

 Veins of Nevada City and Grass Valley, by 

 Waldemar Lindgren ; Geology of Silver City 

 and the Rosita Hills, by W. Cross ; the New 

 and Kanawha Rivers, by M. D. Campbell and 

 W. C. Mendenhall ; The Underground Water 

 of the Arkansas Valley, by G. K. Gilbert; 

 The Water Resources of Illinois, by Prank 

 Leverett ; and Artesian Waters of a Portion 

 of the Dakotas, by N. H. Denton. 



Extension Bulletin No. 20 of the Univer- 

 sity of the City of New York is also Public 

 Libraries Bulletin No. 6, and embodies the 

 report of the Public Libraries Division for 

 1896, including statistics of New York libra- 

 ries. 



The Bulletin of the Department of Labor 

 for September, 1897, contains articles on the 

 inspection of factories and workshops in the 

 United States ; the mutual rights and duties 

 of parents and children ; the municipal or 

 co-operative restaurant of Grenoble, France ; 

 digests of recent reports of five State Bureaus 

 of Labor Statistics and of recent foreign sta- 

 tistical publications ; decisions of courts af- 

 fecting labor ; and recent Scate laws relating 

 to labor. 



The Report of the Chief of the Weather 

 Bureau for the year ending June 30, 1896, 

 besides the usual meteorological tables and 

 related matter for the year, briefly treats of 

 new work undertaken with a view of improv- 

 ing the bureau service, special improvements 

 made during the year, and the preparation 

 and distribution of forecasts and warnings. 

 Noticeable features are the paragraphs about 

 observations with kites and international 

 cloud observations, and the paper, illustrated 

 with charts, on tornadoes since 1889. 



To their Library of Useful Stories D. 

 Appleton and Company add The Story of the 

 Earth's Atmosphere (price, 40 cents), in which 

 the author, Douglas Archibald, of the Royal 



