LITERARY NOTICES. 



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Annual Report upon the Surveys and Ex- 

 plorations WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH 

 Meridian. By Lieutenant George M. 

 Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 

 Witli a Map showing the Areas surveyed 

 up to the Close of the Field Season of 

 1873. 



This is a pamphlet of 130 pages, issued 

 from the Government Printing-Office, being 

 Appendix F F of the Annual Report of the 

 Chief of Engineers for 1874. It contains 

 the report of Lieutenant Wheeler, in charge 

 of the expedition, together with the reports 

 of scientific researches made in connection 

 with the survey. In addition to topographi- 

 cal work proper, the survey combines the 

 establishment of numerous points astro- 

 nomically ; observations in meteorology and 

 hypsometry ; investigations in geology, min- 

 eralogy, and natural history ; together with 

 the collection of many other facts bearing 

 upon the industries and resources of the 

 regions traversed. 



Notes on the Natural History of Por- 

 tions OF Montana and Dakota. 



This is a pamphlet of 61 pages, emanat- 

 ing from the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, and is the substance of a report made 

 to the Secretary of War on the collections 

 made by the Northern Pacific Railroad Ex- 

 pedition of 1873, by J. A. Allen, naturalist 

 of the expedition. It comprises a descrip- 

 tion of the mammals, birds, reptiles, plants, 

 and butterflies, met with in their route from 

 the Missouri River to the Yellowstone, be- 

 tween the 46th and 47th parallels, and the 

 100th and 109th meridians. 



Eighth Annual Report of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Building Fund of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- 

 adelphia to the Contributors to the 

 Fund. January, 1875. 



This Report gives the list of subscrib- 

 ers from December, 1865, to December, 1874, 

 as 461, of whom 39 are ladies. The total 

 subscription is given at $203,965.24. This 

 building fund is the result of a call made 

 in 1865 for means to provide a new build- 

 ing, as their former limited space was be- 

 coming inconveniently crowded by new col- 

 lections. The new building was begun July 

 9, 1872, on the north wing, which is expected 

 to be ready to receive its collections in time 

 for the Centennial, if the now nearly-ex- 



hausted treasury be sufficiently replenished 

 for that purpose, an appeal for which is 

 made in this Report. 



On the Murid^. By Dr. Elliot Coues, 

 U. S. A. Reissued with Additions from 

 the Proceedings of the Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1874. 



The present pamphlet of 28 pages is the 

 first of a series of preliminary zoological 

 reports to be elaborated from the material 

 secured by the United States Commission 

 for the survey of the northern boundary, 

 and of which Dr. Coues was the naturalist. 

 The ground covered is the northern border 

 of the Territories of Dakota and Montana, 

 along the parallel of 49, from the Red River 

 of the North to the Rocky Mountains. 



English Grajlmar. By the Rev. Richard 

 Morris, LL.D. 115 pp. 18mo. Price, 

 cloth, 40 cents ; paper, 80 cents. Mac- 

 millan & Co., 1875. 



This little book is the first of a forth- 

 coming series of " Primers of History and 

 Literature," edited by J. R. Green, M. A., 

 Examiner in the School of Modern History 

 at Oxford. It presents in a handy and con- 

 cise form the practical principles of English 

 grammar, together with much information 

 seldom found in grammars of greater pre- 

 tensions. 



Preliminary Report upon Invertebrate 

 Fossils collected by the Expeditions 

 OF 1871, 1872, AND 1873^ with Descrip- 

 tions of New Species. By C. A. White, 

 M.D. Government Printing-Office, Wash- 

 ington, 1874. 27 pages. 



This preliminary report upon inverte- 

 brate fossils collected by Lieutenant Wheel- 

 er's expedition is made in order that the 

 expedition may obtain due credit for prior- 

 ity of discovery, as nearly all the species 

 noted are new. The pamphlet contains a 

 full description, together with location, of 

 some forty new invertebrate fossils. 



Migrants and Sailors considered in their 

 Relation to the Public Health. From 

 Reports and Papers of the American 

 Public Health Association. 



This pamphlet, of 21 pages, comprises 

 two papers : A. " Some Defects in the Im- 

 migration Service ; Suggestions of Remedy 

 therefor, with Reference to the Sanitary In- 



