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" The American Journal of Physiology " 

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Address before Section B (Physics') or the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, at the Montreal Meeting:. By T. C. 

 Mendenhall. Salem, Mass., 1882. Pp. 14. 



Test of Building Material, made at Watertown 

 Arsenal, Mass., August, 1882. Philadelphia, 1882. 

 Pp. 33. 



Aberrations of Audibility of Fog-Sitrnals. By 

 Arnold B. Johnson. Washington : Jndd & Det- 

 weiler, Printers. 1882. Pp. 14, with Two Maps. 



The Longfellow Calendar for 1883, with Se- 

 lections for Every Bay iii the Year. Boston : 

 Houghton, Mifflin' & Co. 



Statement of Work done at the Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory during the Years 18i"7-1832. 

 Pp.23: and, A Plan for securing Ouservatious 

 of the Variable Stars. Pp. 15. By Edward C. 

 Pickering. Cambridge: John Whson & Son, 

 188a. 



The Worship of the eciprocal Principles of 

 Nat lire among the Ancient Hebrews. By J. P. 

 MacLean. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co. 1S82. 

 Pp. -a. 25 cents. 



Seventh Annual Report of Johns nopkins 

 University. Baltimore, Md. 1882. Pp. 122. 



' Paleontological Bulletin," No. 35. By Pro- 

 fessor E. D. Cope. Philadelphia : A. E. Foote. 

 1882. Pp.44. 



Northern Transcontinental Survey. First An- 

 nual Report of Rapnae! Puinpelly, Director. 

 NewYorii: Wells backelt & i.ankin, Printers. 

 1882. Pp. 16. 



Some Observations on Ostriches and Ostrich- 

 Farming. Pp. 11. 



Some Indications of an Early Race of Men in 

 New England. By Henry W. Haynes. From 

 the " Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natu- 

 ral History." lp. 9. 



On the Determination of the Flashing Point 

 of Petroleum. By John T. Stoddard. Pp. 4. 



Radiant Heat an Exception to the Second 

 Law of Thermo-Dynamics. By H. T. Eddy, 

 Ph. D. 1882. Pp. 10. 



The Sense of Dizziness in Deaf-Mutes. By 

 William James, M. D. Cambridge, 1882. Pp.16. 

 Transactions of the Anthropological Society 

 of Washington. From February, 18 r i9, to Janu- 

 ary, 1882. Vol. I. Washington. 1882. Pp. 142. 

 Food Adulterations. By Professor Albert B. 

 Prescott, M. D. Reprint from "Annual Report 

 of Michigan State Board of Health for 1882." 

 Pp. 6. 



The Tides. By John Nader, Civil Engineer. 

 1879. Pp. 31. 



Sketch of Lewis H. Morgan. By F. W. Put- 

 nam. From the " Proceedings of (he American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences," May, 1882. Pp. 8. 

 Facts and Phases of Animal Life. By Vernon 

 S. Morwood. Illustrated. Netv York : D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co. Pp.286. Price, $150. 



Winners in Life's Race ; or. The Great Back- 

 boned Family. Bv Arabella B. Bucklev. Illus- 

 trated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp.367. 

 Price, $1.50. 



Lectures on Art, delivered in Support of the 

 Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 

 Bv Reginald Stuart Poole and others. London : 

 Macmillan & Co. Pp. 232. Price, $1.50. 



Anatomical Technology as applied to the Do- 

 mestic Cat. An Introduction to Human. Verte- 

 brate, and Comparative Anatomy. By Burt G. 

 Wilder and Simon H. Gage. New York and 

 Chicago: A. S. Barnes & Co. Pp. 575. Price, 

 $4.50.' 



The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, with a Se- 

 lection from his Correspondence and Occasional 

 Writings, and a Sketch of his Contributions to 

 Science. By Lewis Campbell and William Gar- 

 nett. London : Macmillan & Co. Pp. 662. Price, 

 $6. 



New Method of Learning the French Lan- 

 guage. By F. Berber. New York: D. Appleton 

 & Co. Pp\ 138. Price. $1. 



A Study, with Notes, of "The Princess" 

 (Tennyson's poemV By S. E. Dawson. Mon- 

 treal: "Dawson Brothers. Pp. 120. 



American Hero-Myths : A Study in the Na- 

 tive Religions of the Western Continent. By 

 Daniel G. Brinton, M. D. Philadelphia: H. C. 

 Watts & Co. Pp. 251. Price. $1.75. 



Traits of Representative Men. By George 

 W. Bungav. Illustrated. New York : Fowler 

 & Wells. "Pp. 286. Price, $1.50. 



