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pursuit of botany, but she writes in a clear 

 and attractive style, and makes her pages 

 very instructive in relation to the later and 

 most curious questions of vegetable econ- 

 omy. A considerable portion of her book 

 was first published in a succession of arti- 

 cles in Scribner's " Monthly," but she has 

 added new matter to the volume on fungi 

 and lichens, orchids, mosses, and corn and its 

 congeners. She allots considerable space 

 to the insectivorous plants because of the 

 fascinating interest of the subject, and be- 

 cause so little has hitherto been done to 

 popularize the work of Mr. Darwin in this 

 direction. Mrs. Herrick'a volume well illus- 

 trates that the romance of fact is equally 

 fascinating with the romance of fiction, and 

 a good deal more real. 



Magneto-Electric and Dynamo-Electiiic 

 Machines. By Dr. H. Schellen. Trans- 

 lated from the third German edition by 

 Nathaniel S. Keith and Percy Ney- 

 mann, Ph.D. Vol. I. New York: D. 

 Van Nostrand. Pp. 518. 



In the third edition Dr. Schellen greatly 

 enlarged his work, dividing it into two vol- 

 umes, and gave it a more technical char- 

 acter than it had in the previous editions. 

 The first volume treats only of apparatus 

 for generating electric currents, and for 

 measuring the currents and their effects. 

 The descriptions of machines are preceded 

 by a chapter on electrical principles, and 

 one on electrical measurements. Successive 

 chapters deal with magneto - electric ma- 

 chines, dynamo-electric machines, and ma- 

 chines for producing continuous currents. 

 Some later alternating - current machines, 

 for the production of several currents, are 

 described, and the volume ends with a dis- 

 cussion of the conditions of efficiency in 

 dynamo-electric machines. Large additions 

 relating to American machines have been 

 made by Mr. Keith. The volume contains 

 three hundred and fifty-three illustrations. 



Cassell and Company's Illustrated Holi- 

 day Catalogue. New York : Cassell & 

 Co., Limited. Pp. 32. 



The special feature of the publications 

 of the house of Cassell & Co. is the promi- 

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juvenile publications selected from the larger 

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 It is adorned with illustrations of a very 

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A Migration Legend or the Creek Indians, 

 with an Introduction by Albert S. Gat- 

 schet. A^ol. L Philadelphia: D. G. 

 Brinton. Pp. 251. 



This volume is Number IV of Dr. Brin- 

 ton's "Aboriginal Literature." Mr. Gat- 

 schet's task is to present some results of 

 ethnographic study of tribes who have lived 

 in the territory just north of the Gulf of 

 Mexico. Volume I now published contains 

 accounts of the linguistic groups of the Gulf 

 States, the Maskoki family, the Creek In- 

 dians, and the Kasi'hta migration legend, 

 with text and translation. 



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Feeding' Experiments with Gluten-Meal. Mas- 

 sachusetts Experiment Station, Amherst; C. A. 

 Goessmann, Director. Pp. 12. 



The Duration of Color-Impressions on the Keti- 

 na. By Edward L. Nichols, Ph. D. Pp. 10. 



Onondaga Salt Sprinj^s. Annual Eeport of the 

 Superintendent. Syracuse, N. Y. Pp. 89, with 

 Charts. 



Los Ten-apleneros (The Mound-Builders). By 

 Jose ^Manuel Mestre. Havana : Anthropological 

 Society of Cuba. Pp. 80. 



The Fucoids of the Cincinnati Group. By Joseph 

 F. James, Cincinnati. Pp. U, with Plates. 



On Herderite. By F. A. Genth, PhUadelphia. 

 Pp.6. 



Report on the Phosphates of Alabama. By 'Will- 

 iam C. Stubbs, State Chemist, State Department of 

 Agriculture, Auburii, Ala. Pp. 38. 



New York State Bar Association. Reports, Vol. 

 VII. New York : Martin B. Brown, Printer. Pp. 

 255. 



Genital Reflexes the Result of Phimosis. By T. 

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German simplified. Parts I, II, and III. By 

 Augustin KnoBach. New York : A. Knoflach, Trib- 

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Aus Toscana (Out of Tuscany). By E. Peyer. 

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A Letter to Scientists and Inventors. By Ly- 

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Natural Law; or. The Science of Justice. Part 

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Sound-Signals. Bv Arnold B. Johnson. New 

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On Oxygen as a Remedial Agent. By Samuel 8. 

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Jewish Hygiene and Diet. By Carl H. von 

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Deformaciones Artiflciales del Craneo (Artificial 

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