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Geography of Communications, showing the enormous progress that 

 has been made during the Victorian era, and Major A. C. Yates 

 describes Loralai, a frontier cantonment in Baluchistan. 



An article that should interest ethnologists is J. F. Hewitt's "The 

 History of the Week as a Guide to Prehistoric Chronology," in the 

 Westminster Ecriciv for July. 



The American Journal of Science for July contains a description 

 of Ctenacanthus spines from the Carboniferous Keokuk Limestone of 

 Iowa, by Dr C. E. Eastman ; a morphological account of two species 

 of Cyperaceae, Fuirena squarrosa and F. scirpoidea, by T. Holm ; con- 

 tact metamorphism between slate and diabase in the El Pasco range, 

 California, described by H. W. Fairbanks, who also writes on tin- 

 deposits at Tenescal ; notes on outliers of the Comanche series (Lower 

 Cretaceous) in Oklahoma and Kansas, by T. W. Vaughan. 



The July Photogram contains yet another article on the Photo- 

 graphy of Birds' Nests, by Dr E. W. Shufeldt. An article on Tech- 

 nical Photography describes the studios of J. Bulbeck & Co. "We 

 should like to see something on the application of photography to the 

 illustration of scientific papers. It is a failure in nine cases out of 

 ten, no doubt, but whether it is worse than the ordinary draughtsman 

 is a delicate point. 



The Irish Naturalist for July is chiefly devoted to "Some Observa- 

 tions by English Naturalists (E. Standen, L. E. Adams, G. W. 

 Chaster, and J. E. Hardy) on the fauna of Eathlin Island and 

 Ballycastle District." 



The Naturalist for July contains Mr John Cordeaux's Presidential 

 Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. It deals with glaciers, 

 plant-distribution, the antiquities of Holderness, and ' Yorkshire 

 ornithology. Following this, G. 0. Benoni encourages others by his 

 example to take notes on natural history matters. One thing to be 

 noticed is " the young oak thrusting up from [the field mouse's] 

 abandoned home and store after a mild winter, as he stalks his rabbits 

 down the woodside." It is indeed. 



New Serials 



Messrs Gixn & Co., Boston, U.S.A., announce The Zoological 

 Bulletin, a companion serial to the Journal of Morphology, de- 

 signed for shorter contributions in animal morphology and general 

 biology, with no illustrations beyond text-figures. It is pro- 

 posed to publish six numbers a year of about fifty pages each 

 in the same form and style as the Journal of Morphology. The 

 Bulletin will contain nothing but scientific communications. The 

 editors are C. O. Whitman and W. M. Wheeler, assisted by a number 

 of collaborators. The subscription price per volume of six numbers 

 is $3.00, and single numbers are sold separately at 75 cents, each. 



We have already announced the new quarterly East Asia, edited 

 by Dr H. Faulds of Stoke-on-Trent, and published by Hughes & Harber 

 of Longton, Staffordshire, at one shilling a part. The first number, 

 published at the beginning of July, proves both entertaining and in- 

 structive. The chief articles are " Judicial Reform in China," by Dr 

 Sun Yat Sen; "The Numeral System for the Blind in China," by Miss 



