LITERARY NOTICES. 



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ing, particularly in the fields which are 

 opened out by the selections. 



C. N. Caspar, of Milwaukee, has an- 

 nounced a Complete Volapiik Dictionary ; 

 in Volapuk-English and English -Volapuk, 

 by Klas August Linderfelt. It is based 

 on the last editions of the dictionaries of 

 Schleyer and Kerckhoffs. Schleyer's dic- 

 tionary is said to contain more than twenty 

 thousand words, from which it will be seen 

 that Volapiik already has a considerable 

 vocabulary. A new feature is added in the 

 present work, in indicating the source and 

 language from which each Volapiik word is 

 derived. From this it appears that more 

 than sixty per cent of the radical words 

 have their origin in the English language. 

 Prof. Linderfelt's manual of Volapiik has 

 been very successful, three editions of four 

 thousand copies each having already been 

 published. 



The ninth and tenth volumes of the 

 Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington (Smithsonian Institution, publisher), 

 bound in one, contain the minutes of the 

 society and of the Mathematical Section for 

 1886 and 1887, together with the proceed- 

 ings of the Baird memorial meeting. A 

 number of valuable papers are included in 

 the Transactions. Among them are two 

 presidential addresses : the first, by John S. 

 Billings, at the December meeting of 1886, 

 on " Scientific Men and their Duties " ; and 

 the second, by William Harkness, in ISSY, 

 on " The Progress of Science as exemplified 

 in the Art of Weighing and Measuring." 

 Another valuable paper is the discussion of 

 the Charleston earthquake. The addresses 

 at the Baird memorial meeting, by Messrs. 

 Garrick Mallery, William B. Taylor, William 

 H. Dall, and J. W. Powell, present incidents 

 and estimates and illustrations of Prof. 

 Baird's character from several points of view. 



The Woman's Temperance Publication 

 Association, Chicago, publish, under the title 

 of Our Standard-Bearer, the life sketches 

 and speeches of General Clinton B. Fisk, 

 Prohibition candidate for President, by the 

 Rev. John 0. Foster, with an introduction 

 by Frances E. Willard. Although primarily 

 designed for a campaign document, the work 

 is something more, and contains a pleasing 

 miscellany of " army stories " and a record 



of active participation in works of benevo- 

 lence. 



The seventh volume of the Archivos do 

 Museit Nacional (Archives of the National 

 Museum), of Rio Janeiro, is of particular in- 

 terest to us, because it is all the work of 

 American students and authors. It includes 

 the results of the studies of the Cretaceous 

 invertebrate fossils made in the course of 

 the prosecution of the Brazilian geological 

 survey, under the direction of Prof. C. F. 

 Hartt, which fossils were carefully preserved 

 by Mr. Orville A. Derby, as director of the 

 Geological Section of the National Museum, 

 and have been examined by Dr. Charles A. 

 White, of Washington, whose report upon 

 them and specific descriptions constitute the 

 text of the work. Twenty-eight plates of 

 illustrations accompany the letterpress. 



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American Society for Psychical Research, Pro- 

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Boaz, Franz, New York. Meteorologische Be- 

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Bray, Rev. Henry T., Boonville, Mo. Essays on 

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Clarke, Frank W. The Con.stants of Nature. 

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Commissioners of the State Reservation at Ni- 

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Cornell University. Bulletin of the Agricultural 

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Curme, George O. Selected Poems from Pre- 

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Hoftman, W. J., M. D. Pictography and Sha- 

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