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Pope Manufacturing Company. Desk Calendar 

 for 1891. 



Remsen, Ira, Editor. American Chemical Journal. 

 Vol. XII, No. 8, Pp. 75. 50 cents. $4 a volume. 



Reynolds, John P., M. D.. Boston. The Limitiug 

 of Child-hearing among the Married. Pp. 24. 



Riley, C. V., and Howard, L. O., Editors. Insect 

 Life. Vol. Ill, No. 4. Washington: Division of En- 

 tomology, Department of Agriculture. Pp. 48. 



Rotch, A. Lawrence. Observations at Blue Hill 

 Meteorological Observatory, Mass., in 1S89. Pp. 76. 



Shufeldt, R. W., M. D. Osteology of Arctic and 

 Subarctic Water- Birds. Part VIII. Pp. 18. 



Sime, James. Geography of Europe. Pp. 341. 

 80 cents. 



Skidmore, Sidney T., Philadelphia. University 

 Extension. Pp. 12. 



Smith, John B. Mouth Parts of the Diptera. 

 Pp. 20. 



Specialties. Monthly. London. Pp. 12. 



Thompson, Daniel Greenleaf. The Philosophy of 

 Fiction in Literature. Longmans. Pp. '/26. 



Tillier, Claude. My Uncle Benjamin. Boston : 

 Benjamin R. Tucker. Pp. 312. 



Tingle, J. Bishop. Hjelt's Principles of General 

 Inorganic Chemistry (translated). Longmans. Pp. 

 220. 



United States National Museum, Washington. 

 The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Southern 

 British Columbia. Pp. 130, with Plates Fire-mak- 

 ing Apparatus. By Walter Hough. Pp.57. Hand- 

 book of Prehistoric Archaeology. By Thomas Wil- 

 son. Pp. 72. Corean Mortuary Pottery. By Pierre 

 Louis Jouy. Pp. 8. Ostoological Characteristics of 

 the Family Amphipnoidse. By Theodore Gill. Pp. 

 4. Inquiry respecting Palaeolithic Man in North 

 America. By Thomas Wilson. Pp. 36. Expedition 

 to Funk Island and the Great Auk. By Frederic A. 

 Lucas. Pp. 36, with Plate. Hippisley Collection of 

 Chinese Porcelains. By Alfred E. Hippisley. Pp. 

 104. Report of Section on Transportation and En- 

 gineering. By J. Elfreth Watkins. Pp. 5. Report 

 on Oriental Antiquities. By Cyrus Adler. Pp. 12. 

 Report on Condition and Progress. By G. Brown 

 Goode. Pp. 84. 



Werge, John. The Evolution of Photography 

 London : Piper &, Carter, and the author. Pp. 812, 

 with Plates. 



Willoughby, Westel W. The Supreme Court of 

 the United States. Johns Hopkins Press. Pp.124. 



Winchell, Alexander, Ann Arbor, Mich. Recent 

 Observations on some Canadian Rocks. Pp. 12. 



Wardel, Robert B. Recent Theories of Geomet- 

 rical Isomerism. Salem, Mass. : Salem Press. 



Tale University Observatory. Report for 18S9- 

 '90. Pp. IS. 



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Pasteur Institute, 3Vew York. From the 

 opening of the New York Pasteur Institute, 

 February 18, 1890, till October 15th, G10 

 persons that had been bitten by dogs or cats 

 presented themselves to be treated. For 

 480 of these patients it was demonstrated 

 that the animals which attacked them were 

 not mad. Consequently, they were sent 

 back, after having had their wounds at- 

 tended during the proper length of time 

 when it was necessary; 400 patients of this 

 series were consulted or treated gratis. In 

 130 cases the antihydrophobic treatment was 



applied, hydrophobia having been demon- 

 strated by veterinary examination of the 

 animals which inflicted bites, or by the in- 

 oculation in the laboratory, and in many 

 cases by the death of some other persons or 

 animals bitten by the same dogs. All these 

 persons were, on the day of the report, en- 

 joying good health. In eighty cases the pa- 

 tients received the treatment free of charge- 

 The persons treated were sixty-four from 

 New York ; twelve from New Jersey ; twelve 

 from Massachusetts ; eight from Connecti- 

 cut ; nine from Illinois ; three from Mis- 

 souri ; three from North Carolina ; three 

 from Pennsylvania ; two from New Hamp- 

 shire ; two from Georgia ; two from Texas ; 

 one from Maryland ; one from Maine ; one 

 from Kentucky ; one from Ohio ; one from 

 Arizona ; one from Iowa ; one from Ne- 

 braska ; one from Arkansas ; one from 

 Louisiana ; and one from Ontario, Canada. 



The Tuscarora Deep. Rear -Admiral 

 Belknap, of the United States Navy, read a 

 paper before the Asiatic Society of Japan in 

 Yokohama, in October, describing the deep 

 soundings made by his survey vessel, the 

 Tuscarora, in the Euro Siwo, last summer, 

 and comparing them with deep soundings 

 in other seas and parts of the ocean. The 

 main object of the Tuscarora expedition 

 was to determine the feasibility of a cable 

 route across the mid-North-Pacific from 

 California to Yokohoma, by way of Hono- 

 lulu and the Bonin Islands, and on the 

 homeward run to survey a second route 

 from a point on the east coast of Japan, on 

 a great circle running through the Aleutian 

 chain of islands, and ending at Cape Flat- 

 tery at the entrance of Puget Sound. The 

 mid-Pacific survey had been successfully 

 run, without finding any unusually remark- 

 able depths, and the party anticipated that 

 the return survey would be correspondingly 

 easy. But, putting to sea on the 10th of 

 June, the Tuscarora had hardly got a hun- 

 dred miles from the coast, when a sounding 

 was made of 3,427 fathoms, the waters 

 having deepened more than 1,800 fathoms 

 in a run of thirty miles. The next cast was 

 still more startling, for, when 4,643 fathoms 

 of wire had run out, it broke without bot- 

 tom having been reached. Corresponding 

 depths to these were found in all the sound- 



