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Scientific Papers and Addresses. By George Rolleston, 



M.D., F.R.S., arranged and edited by William Turner, M.B., Hon. LL.D,, 

 F. R.S., with a Memorial Sketch by Edward B. Tylor, Hon. D.C.L., P\R. S., 

 with portrait and plates; 2 ^"ols., pp. LXXVI. — 944. (Oxford : The Clarendon 

 Press, 1884.) 



These two valuable volumes contain a selection of the most important 

 Essays contributed by the late Professor Rolleston to the Transactions of 

 various learned Societies and to Scientific Journals. Along with them are 

 also reprinted several Addresses delivered before the British Association for 

 the Advancement of vScience, and other learned bodies. 



These reprints have been arranged in the following sections : — I. — Anat- 

 omy and Physiology, in which are included many important Anthropological 

 memoirs. H. — Zoology, including his Memoirs on Archa;o-zoolog}'. HI. — 

 Archaeology. IV. — Addresses and Miscellaneous Papers. 



In an Appendix to the Second Volume is a digest of many of the 

 unpublished MSS. left by Dr. Rolleston ; these will be found of much interest 

 to the Archaeologist. As a frontispiece we have a fine Portrait of the Author, 

 and the work is further illustrated with many excellent lithographic plates and 

 wood engravings. 



Original Researches in Mineralogy and Chemistry. 



By J. Lawrence Smith. Printed for presentation only. Edited by J. B. 

 Marvin, B.S., M.D. ; pp. XL.— 630. (Louisville, Ky., U.S.A., 1884.) 



Our best thanks are due to ^^Irs. J. Lawrence Smith for the volume before 

 us, which contains all the more important contributions to vScience of the late 

 Professor. The articles are arranged chronologically, except in a few cases ; 

 where two or more have been written on the same or kindred subject, they are 

 then grouped together." The volume represents strictly original investigations, 

 and treats of a very large number of subjects, amongst which we find the 

 description of an Inverted Microscope, invented by the author in 1850. The 

 papers on Meteorology are voluminous, in connection with which we have a 

 catalogue of 292 meteoric stones and irons which were in the possession of the 

 author until a few days of his death, when they were purchased by the Havard 

 University. 



Plant Analysis : Qualitative and Quantitative. By G. 



Dragendorff, Ph.D. Translated from the German by Henry G. Greenish, 

 E.I.C. ; pp. XVI. — 280. (London : Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 18S4.) 



The Author and Translator may both be congratulated on the production 

 of this standard work on Plant Analysis in English. Although undoubtedly 

 more exact, and perhaps in some cases less complicated methods of Analysis 

 may be discovered in time, this work stands at present unrivalled, as giving 

 the best analytical methods for the detection and estimation of the proximate 

 constituents of plants. Copious foot-notes are given, referring the reader to 

 original articles on various processes which have appeared in different scientific 

 journals, thereby much enhancing the value of the work. A few illustrations 

 of special apparatus are interspersed throughout the text, 



