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Meteorological Society, London, seeks to put 

 forward the main features of our knowledge 

 of the conditions that prevail in the atmos- 

 phere as they are interpreted through the 

 science of to-day. He has written not for 

 the minority, who vaguely wonder at the re- 

 lation of extraordinary facts and pass on, 

 but for the more numerous class who, be- 

 sides the facts, want to know the reason why. 

 In successive chapters he presents briefly in 

 clear style the different qualities, phenom- 

 ena, and operations of the atmosphere, in- 

 cluding precipitation, storms, sounds, and 

 colors, and devotes a chapter to flight and 

 another to life in the atmosphere. The latest 

 developments of exploration by kites are ex- 

 plained. 



The Report of the Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation for 1895-96, besides the usual depart- 

 mental information and national and State 

 statistics, contains many papers of value and 

 interest ; among which we mention those on 

 laws relating to city school boards, educa- 

 tion in various European and South Ameri- 

 can countries, schools in certain Middle and 

 Southern States during the first half of the 

 century (by A. D. Mayo), music in German 

 schools, libraries and library legislation, the 

 Fifth International Prison Congress, Jewish 

 schools two thousand years ago, correlation 

 of studies, a biography and bibliography of 

 Horace Mann, and an article that savor3 much 

 of old times and is, withal, very entertaining, 

 on early educational life in middle Georgia. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Proceedings. April to September, 1897. Pp. 176, 

 with plates. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins 

 and Reports. Ohio: No. 8j. Strawberries. By 

 W. J. Green. Pp. 24; No. 86. The Story of the 

 Lives of a Butterfly and a Moth. Pp. 10; News- 

 paper Bulletin, No. 178. The San Jose Scale and 

 the Periodical Cicada. Pp. 81. — Purdue Univer- 

 sity, Lafayette, Ind.: Tenth Announcement of 

 the Winter School of Agriculture.— United States 

 Department of Agriculture: Notes on the Grasses 

 and Forage Plants of Iowa, Nebraska, and Colo- 

 rado. By L. H. Pammel. Pp. 47. 



American School of Metaphysics. L. E. 

 Whipple, Principal. Prospectus. 272 Madison 

 Avenue, New York. Pp. 48. 



Blackford, C. M., Jr., M. D., Atlanta, Ga. Prize 

 Essay on the Present Status of Serum Therapy. 

 Pp. 16. 



Bourgognon, A. Physical Problems and their 

 Solutions. New York: D.VanNostrand Company. 

 Pp. 222. 50 cents. 



Brown, D. W. An Attempt at a Synthetical 

 Demonstration of the Primary Problems of the 

 Differential Calculus. Pp. 20. 



Bruce Photographic Telescope. Plates of 

 Nebulae and Star Clusters. Three plates. 



Bureau of American Republics. Code of Com- 

 mercial Nomenclature — Knglish, Spanish, and Por- 

 tuguese. Three volumes. Pp. 670, 645, 640. 



Call, R. Ellsworth. The Hydrographic Basins 

 of Indiana and their Molluscan b'anna. Pp 12; 

 The Evolution of the Map of Mammoth Cave, 

 Kentucky. Pp. 6, v, ith plates. 



Curtis, Carlton C. A Text-Book of General 

 Botany. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 

 Pp 359. $3. 



Dawson, George M. The Physical Geography 

 and Geology of Canada. Toronto: Howell & 

 Hutchinson. Pp. 48; Some Observations tend- 

 ing to show the Occurrence of Secular Climatic 

 Changes in British Columbia. Ottawa: J. Durie 

 & Son; Toronto: The Cobb Clark Company. 

 Pp. 8. 



Deane Pumping Machinery Catalogue, 1897. 

 Holyoke, Mass. Pp. 131. 



Gilman, Daniel C. Semicentennial Historical 

 Address at Sheffield Scientific School, New 

 Haven, Conn. Published by the School. Pp. 40. 



Groner, D. A. N. What is the Force of Gravi- 

 tation ? Kansas City, Mo. : Tne Acme Publishing 

 Company. Pp. 58. 



Haviland, P. W. Science. The Ancient He- 

 brew Significance of the Book of Genesis. New 

 York: The Author, 205 West One Hundred and 

 Eighteenth Street. Pp. 186. $1. 



Heilprin, Angelo. Map of the Arctic Regions, 

 comprising the most Recent Explorations of Peary, 

 Nansen, and Jackson. Geographical Society of 

 Philadelphia. 



Iowa Geological Survey. Annual Report, 1896, 

 with Accompanying Papers. Samuel Calvin, State 

 Geologist; J. G. Leonard, Assistant. Des Moines. 

 Pp. 555. 



Johns Hopkins University Circulars. Novem- 

 ber, 1897. Pp. -ii. 10 cents. 



Mach, Ernst. Popular Scientific Lectures. 

 Translated by T. J McCormack Second edition, 

 revised and enlarged. Chicago : Open Court 

 Publishing Company. Pp. 382. $1. 



Means, D. McM. Industrial Freedom, with an 

 Introduction by the Hon. David A. Wells. New 

 York : D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 248. 



Merrill, F. J. H. Geological Map of a Part of 

 Southeastern New York, showing the Distribution 

 of Stones used as Building Stones. Albany: New 

 York State Museum. 



Newland, A. F., and Row, R. K. The Natural 

 System of Vertical Writing. Six graded books, 

 with a Teacher's Manual. With a Monograph by 

 C. H. Ames. D. C. Heath & Company. Price of 

 each book, 75 cents per dozen. 



Olmstead, D. H. The Protestant Faith ; or, 

 Salvation by Belief. Third edition. New York: 

 G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 80. 



Parker, Francis W., and Helm, N. L. Uncle 

 Robert's Visit. New York : D. Appleton and 

 Company. Pp. 191. 



Peabody Education Fund. Proceedings of the 

 Trustees at the Thirty-sixth Meeting, 1897. Pp. 65. 



Roche. Georges. La Culture des Mers en Eu- 

 rope (Cultivation of the Seas in Europe). Paris: 

 Felix Alcan. Pp. 328 6 francs. 



Scovill & Adams Company, of New York. 

 The American Annual of Photography and Photo- 

 graphic Times for 1898. Pp. 370. 75 cents. 



8eitz,J.A. The Colloquy (Poem). New York: 

 G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 2J6. $1.75. 



Somatose. American Biscuit and Manufactur- 

 ing Company, New York. 



