288 Reviews and Booh Notices. 



Also, a copy of "Guyot's Physical Geography," containing 24 maps 

 and many illustrations. The maps show the lines of equal magnetic 

 declination, distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes, structure of the 

 several continents, marine currents, isothermal lines, winds, rains, dis- 

 tribution of vegetation, and of useful minerals and the races of 

 men, and other valuable meteorological and physical phenomena. 

 They are alone worth much more than the cost of the book to the stu- 

 dent or the naturalist. The book contains useful information relating 

 to the formation and drainage of rivers and lakes, the results of oceanic 

 movements, the distribution of heat, circulation and phenomena of the 

 atmosphere, and other matters affecting the geographical surface of the 

 earth, which every student should comprehend before leaving school, 

 but the book will nevertheless always be quite handy to have about a 

 library. Published and for sale same as last. 



" I^and and Fresh Water Shells of Lasalle Co., Illinois," is the title 

 of a pamphlet of 48 pp., by W. W. Calkins, Esq., of Chicago, Illi- 

 nois. The pamphlet contains descriptions of about one hundred species, 

 and one plate, upon which is figured Helix albolabris, H. clausa, H. 

 multiUneata, H. 'profunda, H. Pennsylvanica, H. alternata, H. solitaria, 

 Succince obliqua, Hy. lineata and Try. Lewisii. It is a local monograph 

 very creditable to the author, and may be procured by application 

 to him. Price, one dollar. 



We have received the advance sheets from the Keport of the Bureau 

 of Agriculture of Tennessee, relating to the Coal and Iron of that 

 State, from J. W. Newman, Esq. It flatters the prospects of the 

 future mining interests of that State. The report can be procured 

 of J. B. Killebrew, Secretary of the Bureau of Agriculture, Nashville, 

 Tennessee. 



We are indebted to the Hon. H. B. Banning for " Mineral Resources 

 West of the Rocky Mountains, 1873;" "Geological Survey of Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, 1872;" "Contributions to the Ex- 

 tinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western Territories, by Joseph Leidy," 

 and " Synopsis of the Acrididca of North America, by Cyrus Thomas 

 Ph. D." 



We take pleasure in calling the attention of every person interested 

 in educational matters to the advertisement of the unparalleled series 

 of school books, published by Wilson, Hinkle & Co., of this city. 

 Their text-books are in general use in all schools, public and private, 

 throughout this section of countiy, and the rapid progress of the 

 scholars and high standing of the schools is traceable directly to the 

 unequaled merit of these works. 



