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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



prime need of its students, science was rep- 

 resented by chemistry and anatomy in its 

 earliest course of study, and rapidly increas- 

 ing facilities have since been accorded to it. 

 Amos Eaton lectured on chemistry and 

 botany in the early years of the college. 

 Prof. Snell, with a wonderful Yankee handi- 

 ness in constructing apparatus, had charge 

 of the teaching of physics for many years. 

 The instruction of these men, together with 

 that of Shepard in mineralogy, of Adams 

 in zoology, of President Hitchcock in geolo- 

 gy, and the younger Hitchcock in physiology, 

 has enabled the students of Amherst to go 

 forth into the world with some understand- 

 ing of Nature, of which man is no longer 

 ashamed to confess himself a part. The 

 volume is generously illustrated with portraits 

 of the several presidents, and views of the 

 buildings and grounds of the college. An 

 appendix contains a list of donations to the 

 college, the number of faculty and students 

 year by year, etc., and there is a full index. 

 The book will appeal strongly not only to the 

 alumni of Amherst but also to every New- 

 Englauder who is proud of the educational 

 institutions of his native section and to 

 friends of learning everywhere. A limited 

 edition de luxe at five dollars is announced. 



Three reprints, from the Transactions of 

 the Fifth Session of the International Con- 

 gress of Geologists held in Washington in 

 1891, are geological, geographical, and topo- 

 graphical descriptions of the Great Plains 

 of the North and of the Yellowstone Park, 

 by Arnold Hague ; and a paper in French 

 by Lester F. Ward, on the Principles and 

 Mcihodji of Study of Geological Congelation 

 by Means of Fossil Plants. 



Science Progress is a new monthly review 

 of Scientific Investigation, published by the 

 Scientific Press, Cambridge, England, and ed- 

 ited by J. Bretland Farmer, with the co-oper- 

 ation of a number of investigators, masters 

 in their several fields. Profs. Armsti'ong, 

 Burdon-Sanderson, Dunstan, Fitzgerald, Goe- 

 bel, Halliburton, Ray Lankester, Roy, etc., are 

 named as among the contributors to the 

 earlier numbers. The articles are of high 

 character, about midway between the popu- 

 lar and the technical that is, within the 

 understanding of the general reader, but re- 

 quiring thoughtful attention. 



Dolls of the Tusayan Indians is the sub- 

 ject of an interesting paper published origi- 

 nally in the Interriationales Archivfiir Eth- 

 nographie, by J. Walter FevjJces. The dolls 

 are illustrated in a series of striking pic. 

 tures, colored like the originals, and de- 

 scribed as examples of wood-carving and 

 symbolism among the Hopis. This art, ac- 

 cording to the priests, is very ancient ; and 

 many of the objects placed on the altars in 

 subterranean chambers where secret rites 

 were performed are said to have been 

 brought up from the under-world when the 

 ancients emerged from the si-pa-pu, or tra- 

 ditional opening in the earth out of which 

 the races of man originally appeared. The 

 images, often called idols, but in reality only 

 dolls, are made in great numbers by the 

 Tusayan Indians and present very instructive 

 objects for the study of symbolic decoration. 

 They are interesting as affording valuable 

 information in regard to the Hopi concep- 

 tion of their mythological personages. 



Recreation is a new monthly magazine 

 " devoted to everything that the name im- 

 plies," of which G. 0. Shields is editor and 

 manager, and which is published at 216 

 William Street, New York, for $1 a year. 

 The first number contains a varied table of 

 contents, of which the most striking articles 

 are President D. S. Jordan's How the Trout 

 came to California, and Captain H. H. Bellas's 

 A Winter with the Cheyennes ; and the illus- 

 trations are very attractive. 



The second part of Clarence B. Moore's 

 memoir on Certain Sand Mounds of St. John's 

 River, Florida, represents the results of 

 seven additional months' continuous work 

 subsequent to the preparation of the first 

 part, with a large body of assistants. The 

 river has been covered practically from its 

 source to its outlet, and the author believes 

 that every mound of any importance border- 

 ing on the stream, except two on Murphy 

 Island, has been examined. The descriptions 

 are liberally illustrated with representations 

 of the objects recovered from the mounds. 

 A separate reprint is also published by Mr. 

 Moore from the memoir, on the copper found 

 in the mounds As to the Copper from the 

 Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida. In 

 this paper are considered copper objects of 

 European and of aboriginal design, the ar- 

 chaeological aspects of the finds, and the re- 



