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has notes which prove, he says, "conclu- 

 sively," the contagiousness of phthisis. He 

 also publishes a note from Surgeon-General 

 von Lauer, of the Royal Prussian War De- 

 partment, supporting the same view, and 

 describes his apparatus for catching tuber- 

 cle-bacilli in the air near victims of tuber- 

 culosis, and some of the results of using it. 



Foul Brood : Its Management and Cure. 

 By D. A. Jones. Beeton, Ont. : " Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal." Pp. 24. 



" Foul brood " is a disease of bees, 

 which, in order that the treatment may not 

 be misapplied, the author carefully distin- 

 guishes from " chilled," " neglected," " over- 

 heated," " drowned," and " dead " brood. 

 It is a germ-disease, and lurks in the honey, 

 whence the bees contract it. The author's 

 remedy is to cause the bees to fast till all 

 the diseased honey is eliminated from their 

 ' systems. The process has to be very care- 

 fully performed, and the cautions to be ob- 

 served are particularly insisted upon in the 

 directions. 



Bulletins of the United States Geologi- 

 cal Survey. No. 2, pp. 8 ; No. 3, pp. 

 36 ; No. 4, pp. 34, with Nine Plates ; No. 

 5, pp. 325; No. 6, pp. 43; No. 11, pp. 

 66, with Six Plates. Washington : Gov- 

 ernment Printing-Office. 



The bulletins are numbered in a con- 

 tinuous series, and will be bound in volumes 

 of convenient size. The first six numbers 

 constitute Vol. I, which will contain 493 

 pages, with eleven plates. Of the present 

 list, No. 2 consists of " Gold and Silver Con- 

 version Tables," which give the coining 

 values of troy ounces of fine metal, and the 

 weights of fine metal represented by given 

 sums of United States money. In No. 3 

 are described the fossil faunas of the Upper 

 Devonian along the meridian of 76 30', 

 from Tompkins County, New York, to Brad- 

 ford County, Pennsylvania. Number 4 gives 

 accounts by Charles A. White of mesozoic 

 fossils, including descriptions of certain 

 aberrant forms of the Chamidce from the 

 cretaceous rocks of Texas ; of a small col- 

 lection gathered in Alaska by Mr. W. H. 

 Dall ; and of the Nautiloid genus Enclima- 

 toceras Hyatt. No. 5 is a " Dictionary of 

 Altitudes" in the United States, arranged 

 by States and alphabetically by places, com- 



piled by Mr. Henry Gannett. The data are 

 derived from special, railroad, State, and 

 municipal surveys, and generally from baro- 

 metric or trigonometrical determinations. 

 No. 6 is a list of elevations in the Dominion 

 of Canada, derived generally from railroad 

 and canal surveys. No. 11 is a paper on 

 the quaternary and recent mollusca of the 

 Great Basin, with descriptions of new forms, 

 by Pi. Ellsworth Call, for which an introduc- 

 tory sketch of the quaternary lakes of the 

 Great Basin is furnished by Mr. G. K. Gil- 

 bert. 



Ethical Culture. Four Lectures. By 

 Samuel Burns Weston. Philadelphia. 

 Pp. 70. Price, 20 cents. 



The Society for Ethical Culture, whose 

 views are partly set forth in these lectures, 

 regards the moral reason as the soul's sov- 

 ereign authority, and holds that in yielding 

 obedience to that authority, in living true 

 to the dictates of our moral and rational 

 nature, we are on the path that leads to the 

 heights of religion. The present lectures 

 were delivered to the society in Philadel- 

 phia. The special subjects are: "The Need 

 of an Ethical Religion " ; " Why Christiani- 

 ty does not satisfy us " ; " The Success and 

 Failure of Liberalism " ; and " The Meaning 

 of a Society for Ethical Culture." 



The Sanitary Monitor. A Monthly Jour- 

 nal. Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 2, May and 

 June, 1885. J. F. Winn, M. D., Editor 

 and Proprietor. Pp. 14 each number. 

 Price, 10 cents; $1 a year. 



The "Monitor" is devoted to "Indi- 

 vidual, Family, and Public Health," and 

 gives contributions, addresses, editorial ar- 

 ticles, reports, and items bearing upon these 

 important subjects. It is not a medical 

 journal, but is designed especially for the 

 instruction of the laity in matters pertain- 

 ing to the preservation of health. 



Architectural Studies. Part I. Twelve 

 Designs for Low-Cost Houses. New 

 York: William T. Comstock, 6 Astor 

 Place. Price, $1. . 



The designs are shown on a large scale, 

 with full details, and include prize designs 

 from " building competition," with specifica- 

 tions, bills of materials, and estimates of 

 oost. The costs of the buildings are estimat- 

 ed at $2,600 and less. 



