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The Abdominal Brain. By Leila G. Be- 

 dell, M. D. Chicago: Gross & Del- 

 bridge. Pp. 45. 



The name of the book is taken from 

 Bichat, who first used the term. The pur- 

 pose is to maintain that not the brain and 

 spinal cord alone, but the whole nervous 

 system, particularly that part of it called 

 the sympathetic, is concerned in the opera- 

 tions of mind. The author refers,"in her 

 introduction, to a paper by Dr. W. A. Ham- 

 mond, which was published in " The Popu- 

 lar Science Monthly " after her essay was 

 read in her society, the " Woman's Physio- 

 logical Institute of Chicago," as bearing on 

 her subject, and indicating that there is a 

 place in science for her views, 



A New Philological Theory. By Profess- 

 or A. J. Mogyorosi. Alleghany, N. Y. 

 Pp. 11. 



Professor Mogyorosi believes that those 

 writers on languages are wrong who regard 

 the Aryan and Shemitic families as present- 

 ing the most perfect types of structure, and 

 ignore the Turanian family, which is, he sug- 

 gests, to the others as the center to the right 

 and left wings. He illustrates his position 

 by several examples of word-roots as they 

 appear in the several families, in which the 

 Magyar serves as the type of the Turanian. 



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The Iroquois Sacrifice of the White Doer. Pp. 

 8. On Some Doubtful or Intermediate Articula- 

 tions: au Experiment in Phonetics. Pp. 12. By 

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Notes on the Literature of Explosives. No. VI II. 

 By Professor Charles E. Munroe, U. S. Naval Acad- 

 emy, Annapolis, Md. Pp. 18. 



The Soaring Birds. A Mechanical Problem. By 

 I. Lancaster. Chicago. Pp. 22. 



Woman, a Poem. By Logan E. Bleckley. Clarks- 

 ville, Ga. Pp. 23. 



A Study of Thermometers, etc. By O. T. Sher- 

 man. Pp. 4. 



A Plea for the Medicinal Use of Pure Alco- 

 hol, etc. By Henry Leffmann, M. D. Philadelphia. 

 Pp. 10. 



The Spirit of Scientific Progress. By Harvey W. 

 Wiley, Ph. D. Pp. 20. 



Quarterly Report of the Chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics, to March 31, 1885. Washington : Gov- 

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Crop Report (Georgia) for July. 1883. J. T. 

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International Electrical Exhibition (Philadelphia) 

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The Western Society for Psychical Research. 

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The Terraces of Rotomahana. a Poem . By Frank 

 Cowan. To which is prefixed a Paper on Geyser 

 Eruptions and Terrace Formations. By Josiah Mar- 

 tin, F. G. S. Auckland, N. Z. Pp. 61. 



Marginal Kamea. By H. Carvill Lewis. Phila- 

 delphia. Pp. 26. 



Report of Proceedings of the Illinois State Board 

 of Health, July Meeting. 18S5. Pp.26. 



Teachers' Institutes (Bureau of Education Circu- 

 lar). Washington : Government Printing - Office. 

 Pp. 206. 



The Missouri Coteau and its Moraine*. By Pro- 

 fessor J. E. Todd, Tabor, Iowa. Salem, Mass. 

 Salem Press. Pp. 12, with Plate. 



Cocaine Hydrochloride. New York : Druggists' 

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" Dio Lewis's Nuggets. " Dio Lewis, Editor. 

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Minnesota. Its Resources and Possibilities. By 

 Professor C. W. Hall, Mr. D. C. Bell, and Rev. J. H. 

 Morley. Minneapolis. Pp. 32. 



A New Physical Truth. By E. J. Goodwin, M. 

 D., Solitude, Ind. Pp. 32. 



Hydatid Tumors in the Brain. By R. Harvsy 

 Reed, M. D. Mansfield, Ohio. Pp. 16. 



Account of the Progress of Chemistry in 1884. 

 by H. Carrington Bolton. Washington : Govern- 

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Observations of Comets. By J. G. Porter and H. 

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The Latest Systems of Medicine. By J. G. 

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"Man. A Semi - Monthly Journal." Ottawa, 

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Cholera, etc. By J. B. McConDell, M. D. Mont- 

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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. Biographieal Notice. 

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Trichina Spiralis. Including an Examination of 

 Indiana Hogs. By Thomas B. Redding, F. R. M. S. 

 Newcastle, Ind. Pp. 44 



Universal or Cosmic Time. By Sanford Flem- 

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Fodder Analyses. Blue-Joint Grass Hay. Mas- 

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United States Hay -Fever Association. 1885. 

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State Board of Health of Wisconsin. Eighth 

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Truth, a Poem. By Edwin N. Kingsley. Pp. 

 57. 25 cents. 



Bible Fabrications refuted. By O. B. Whitford. 

 Pp. 47. 15 cents. And St. Matthew before the 

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Smithsonian Institution. Report of Professor 

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Lectures on Teaching. By J. G. Fitch, M. A. 

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