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are here fully reported. An important feat- 

 ure of the volume before us is the reports 

 of the county vice-presidents. These officers 

 are charged with the duty of organizing 

 local horticultural societies, and of report- 

 ing annually to the society upon horticultu- 

 ral matters in their localities. 



The Constants of Nature. By F. W. 

 Clarke, S. B. Washington : The Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



In 1873 the Smithsonian Institution 

 published Part I. of the above-named work, 

 and we have now before us Parts II. and 

 III., as also a first supplement to Part I. 

 In this first part are given tables of specific 

 gravities, boiling-points, and melting-points. 

 Part II. is a table of specific heats for 

 solids and liquids, and Part III. gives tables 

 of expansion by heat for solids and liquids. 

 In compiling these tables Prof. Clarke has 

 expended a vast amount of labor a labor 

 of love, inasmuch as his services are ren- 

 dered gratuitously. 



Archivos do Mtjseu Nacional do Rio de 

 Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa 

 Industrial. Pp. 30, quarto, with Plates. 



The Archivos is published quarterly, 

 and is the organ of the National Museum of 

 Brazil. Its first object is to give an ac- 

 count of the contributions to science made 

 by that institution, but it will also from 

 time to time contain essays on scientific 

 subjects from other sources. In the pres- 

 ent number (which is the first) there are 

 three articles, viz. : " Studies of the Shell- 

 heaps {Samhaquiti) of Southern Brazil," by 

 Carlos Wiener; "On Some Tangas" (well 

 translated "fig-leaves" in the Nation) " of 

 Baked Clay used by the Ancient Inhabitants 

 of the Island of Marajo," by Ch. Fred. 

 Hartt ; and " Studies upon the Morphologi- 

 cal Evolution of the Tissues in Sarmentose 

 Caules," by Ladislau Netto. 



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