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We have received in pamphlet form 

 Prof. Lester F. Ward's article on Genius 

 and Woman's Intuition, published in the 

 Forum. It is a reply to an article on 

 Woman's Intuition, by Mr. Grant Allen, 

 who, Prof. Ward says, entirely mistakes 

 the nature of this faculty. It is defined by 

 Prof. Ward as a power of instantaneous 

 accurate judgment in matters that affect 

 the safety of the woman or her children. 

 Out of its own field this instantaneous judg- 

 ment fails to be accurate, which is the rea- 

 son why men are unwilling to trust the con- 

 clusions of women on the broader ques- 

 tions of society and the state. Prof. Ward 

 maintains, also, that Mr. Allen errs in iden- 

 tifying genius with the intuition of woman, 

 and speaks of the former as essentially a 

 creative faculty, which man as a rule pos- 

 sesses to a greater degree than woman. 



The Journal of Morphology (Ginn) opens 

 its fourth volume with a number containing 

 five papers. These are The Origin of the 

 Cerebral Cortex and the Homologies of the 

 Optic Lobe Layers in the Lower Vertebrates, 

 by Isaac Nakagawa ; The Skeletal Anatomy 

 of Amphiuma during its Earlier Stages, by 

 0. P. Hay ; The Segmentation of the Primi- 

 tive Vertebrate Brain, by Charles F. W. 

 McClure; and two by Mr. W. H. Howell, 

 one being on The Life History of the Formed 

 Elements of the Blood, especially the Red 

 Blood Corpuscles, the other being occupied 

 with Observations upon the Occurrence, 

 Structure, and Function of the Giant Cells 

 of the Marrow. Three folded plates accom- 

 pany the issue. 



Bulletin No. 63 of The Michigan Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station is a pamphlet 

 on Greenhouse Building and Heating, by L. 

 R. Taft. " The greatest defects in the or- 

 dinary forcing house," Mr. Taft says, " are, 

 that there is generally too much wood in 

 the roof in the shape of rafters and sash- 

 bars, and that sufficient care is not taken to 

 so erect them that they will not rot down, 

 or the walls, if of brick or of masonry, be 

 broken apart or thrown down by frost." 

 He discusses the material for walls, the ar- 

 rangement of sash bars and supports, meth- 

 ods of glazing, ventilating apparatus, steam 

 and hot-water heating, etc. 



Tlie Second Annual Report of the Storrs 

 School Agricultural Experiment Station, at 



Storrs, Conn., contains the following papers : 

 The Acquisition of Atmospheric Nitrogen 

 by Plants, by W. 0. Atwater and C. D. 

 Woods ; Bacteria in Milk, Cream, and But- 

 ter, by H. W. Conn ; Stubble and Roots of 

 Plants as Manure, by Charles D. Woods ; 

 Meteorological Observations, by C. S. Phelps ; 

 Co-operative Field Experiments with Fer- 

 tilizers, by C. S. Phelps ; and Effects of Dif- 

 ferent Fertilizers upon the Composition of 

 Corn, by Charles D. Woods. 



The papers contributed to the Second An- 

 nual Report of the Experiment Station, at 

 the Kansas Agricultural College, by the Bo- 

 tanical Department of the station, comprise 

 a Report on the Loose Smuts of Cereals ; an 

 account of Experiments in Crossing Varie- 

 ties of Corn ; Observations on Crossed Corn 

 the Second Year ; and Brief Notes of a Pre- 

 liminary Study of the Receptivity of Corn 

 Silk. Nine plates illustrate the smuts and 

 their natural enemies, and two are devoted 

 to the crossed corn. 



A Chart Relative to the Composition, 

 Digestibility, and Nutritive Value of Food 

 has been prepared by Prof. Henry A. Mott 

 (Wiley, $1.25). It contains a large number 

 of tables of the nature indicated by the 

 title, the authority for each and the name 

 of the publication from which the table is 

 taken being given. A few general com- 

 ments on the digestibility of foods are given 

 in a foot-note. 



The first number of a magazine whose 

 purpose is indicated by its name Physical 

 Culture has been issued in New York. 

 Its editor is Archibald Cuthberlson, who 

 says that his magazine will endeavor to 

 avoid publishing articles 6imply because 

 subscribed by a prominent name. " Physi- 

 cal Culture will stand or fall, not by or for 

 lack of certain names appended to its arti- 

 cles, but by the quality of these attributed 

 to them by intelligent people." Accord- 

 ingly, except the opening article, " by the 

 editor," none of the papers in this issue are 

 signed at all, and certain marks indicate 

 that they are mostly the product of one pen, 

 The number contains a biographical sketch 

 of James Douglas Andrews, illustrated with 

 a full-page portrait of Prof. Andrews, and 

 a view of the interior of the Brooklyn Young 

 Men's Christian Association Gymnasium. 

 Other articles take up The Checkley Sys- 



