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humour perhaps. Even this solitary witticism may be unin- 

 tentional : " Socialists are radically wrong." The italics are ours. 

 Well, well ! " Everybody ought not to be the same — equal. Nature 

 never intended it." True again! but then those who are not equal to 

 it should not publish. Let Mr. Briggs return to the bosom of his 

 family and the illustrated pages of our humorous contemporary. 



New Serials. 



A NEW quarterly journal, Centrallblatt filr Anthvopologie, Ethnologic, iind 

 Urgeschichte, edited by Dr. G. Buschau, with the co-operation of 

 eminent anthropologists, is issued by J. U. Kern, of Breslau. 



Volume i. of the Reports of the University Geological Survey of 

 Kansas, to whose energies we have more than once alluded, is 

 announced. It contains about 100 pages of text, with figures and. 

 plates, and deals chiefly with stratigraphy of Carboniferous rocks in 

 Kansas. 



The Psychological Revieiv announces the establishment of a new 

 Russian monthly review of psychiatry, neurology, and experimental 

 psychology, edited by Dr. Bekhteret. 



For the study of the districts of Altai' and Nertchinsk there has 

 been formed a Geological Section of the Cabinet of the Czar, under 

 the direction of Professor A. Inostrantzev. This Section publishes 

 its results under the title Travaux de la Section Geologique, etc. (Trud'i 

 gheologhicheskoi Kabineta egho imperatorskagho Vellchestva). Vol. i», 

 Livr. I, containing 144 pages, and Livr. 2, containing 94 pages, were 

 pubhshed, in 8vo, at St. Petersburg in 1895. They contain papers, 

 written in Russian, by P. N. Venyukov, A. A. Baikov, V. I. Pletner, 

 and the editor, as well as a geological and geographical bibhography 

 of the Altai. 



From S. Paulo, in Brazil, comes vol. i. of Revista do Muscn 

 Paulista, publicada por H. von Ihering, 1895. ^^ is in 8vo, and con- 

 sists of 254 pp. and 3 plates, containing a description of the museum 

 and other papers by von Ihering, P. Taubert, and A. Lutz. 



The Halifax Naturalist, a bi-monthly magazine of natural history 

 and archaeology of the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, deserves a 

 welcome, if only for the brightness of its general appearance. The 

 first number contains : a geological map of the parish on the scale of 

 I inch to the mile, compiled from the Ordnance Survey ; an account 

 of some physiographical features of the parish of Halifax, by 

 W. Simpson; an introduction to "the flora of the parish of Halifax, 

 which will form, when finished, an independent work; a record of the 

 meetings of the Halifax Scientific Society ; and various smaller notes. 

 The editor is Mr. W. B. Crump, and the price is 6d. This magazine 

 will deal with the natural history of the ancient parish of Halifax, 

 and will no doubt tend to increase the interest in natural history that 

 is already felt by a number of the inhabitants. While we appreciate 

 the merits of this first number, we must again protest against the 

 increase of local publications. There already exists the Natumlist, a 

 monthly journal of natural history for the North of England, which, 

 as it so constantly contains articles connected with Yorkshire, should 

 have sufficed the needs of Halifax. 



The first number of the Idaho Mining News (Boise, Idaho, price 

 $1 per annum) appeared in March. According to the American 

 Geologist, it contains papers on the Boise gold belt and the coal-fields 

 of the Payette River. 



A monthly Index to the medical press of the United States and 

 Canada is announced by Frank Weir & Co., New York. 



