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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Report on the Character of Six Hundred 

 Tornadoes. By Sergeant J. P. Finley, 

 Signal Corps, U. S. A. Washington: 

 Office of Chief Signal Officer. Pp. 19, 

 with Three Charts. 



The increasing frequency with which 

 notices of tornadoes appear, as the list ap- 

 proaches the present time, is to be taken 

 as a sign, not of more tornadoes, but of 

 better observations. The season in which 

 tornadoes appear most frequent is summer, 

 and the month June. Spring is the next 

 most frequent season, then autumn, then 

 winter. The region most often visited in- 

 cludes the States of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, 

 and Nebraska, of which Kansas suffers the 

 most. Outside of this region New York 

 has the most tornadoes, and next, Georgia. 

 Suggestions are given for avoiding the vio- 

 lence of tornadoes ; many other lessons are 

 derived from the study, and further ones 

 are anticipated from further studies. 



The December (or Christmas) number of 

 " Wide Awake " is a noble magazine of 13G 

 pages, with a supplement of 60 pages, filled 

 with articles of high literary character and 

 unexceptionable tendency. It is adorned 

 with a profusion of illustrations, which, 

 though executed in the best style of the 

 present fashion in wood-engraving, can not 

 be considered equal to the illustrations in 

 the same magazine ten years ago, when a 

 purer taste and a better style prevailed. 



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Dime Question-Books : General History, As- 

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Iowa Wenther-Service Annual for 1883. Gns- 

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Should American Colleges be open to Wom- 

 en as well as to Men ? Frederick A. P. Barnard, 

 President of Columbia College, New York City. 

 Pp. 17. 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eight- 

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The Taxation of the Elevated Railroads in the 

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Apparent Attractions and Repulsions of 

 Small Floating Bodies. John Le Conte. Berke- 

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Medicine and Medicine-Men. Anniversary 

 Address. John Godfrey. New Orleans, Louisi- 

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" The Sociologist : A Monthly Journal." Vol. 

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On the Loess and Associated Deposits of Des 

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Circulars of the Department of Education: 

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The Naval Use of the Dynamo-Machine and 

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" Census Forestry Bulletin," No. 23 Esti- 

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 Fuel during the Census Year. P. 1, with Map. 



Department of Agriculture Report of the 

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The Condition of Niagara Falls, and the 

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"The Reconstructionist : Devoted to the 

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A Method of Teaching the Greek Language 

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Statistical Report of Imports, Exports, Im- 

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Hospital Accommodations of County Poor- 

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Bromide of Ethyl (as an Anaesthetic). Julien 

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Report of an Exploration of Parts of Wyo- 

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 Pp. 69. 



"Journal of Social Science." December, 1882. 

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Report of the Standing Committee, New 

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On the Geological Effects of a Varying Rota- 

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 12. 



" Scientific Proceedings of the Ohio Mechan- 

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The Place of Original Research in College 

 Education. J. H. Wright, Dartmouth College, 

 Hanover, New Hampshire. Pp. 29. 



Mutual Relations of Intellectual and Moral 

 Culture. Joseph Le Conte. Berkeley, California. 

 Pp. 7. 



General Weather - Service, United States. 

 "Monthly Weather Review," November, 1882. 

 Washington, D. C. : Office of the Chief Signal- 

 Officer. Pp. 21, with Maps. 



Papers of California Academy of Sciences on 

 " Footprints found at the Carson State-Prison " 

 (H. W. Harkness, M.D., Joseph Le Conte, CD. 

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 Gibbs) ; and on " Fresh-water Mussels " (Robert 

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