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Long Island Hospital. Polhemus Me- 

 morial Clluic and Hoagland Laboratory. 

 Forty-first Annual Announcement, 1899. 



Meuuicr, Stanislas. La GSologie Ex- 

 pt'-rimentale. (Experimental Geology.) 

 Paris: Felix Alcan. Pp. 311. 



Reprints. Adler, Cyrus. The Interna- 

 tional Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 

 Second Conference. Pp. 43.— Chamberlin, 

 T. C. A Systematic Source of Evolution 

 of Provincial Faunas, and the Influence 

 of Great Epochs of Limestone Formation 

 upon the Constitution of the Atmosphere. 

 Pp. 24; The Ulterior Basis of Time Divi- 

 sions and the Classifications of Geologic 

 History. Pp. 101; Lord Kelvin's Address 

 on the Age of the Earth as an Abode fitted 

 for Life. Pp. 20.— Croke, W. J. Architec- 

 ture, Painting, and Printing at Subiaco. 

 Pp. 21.— Daly, Reginald A. Three Days in 

 the Caucasus. Pp. 15.— Harkuess, H. W. 

 Californian Hypogseous Fungi. Pp. 5G, 

 with plates.— Hobbs, W. H. The Diamond 

 Fields of the Great Lakes. Pp. IG.— Lu- 

 cas, Frederick A. The Fossil Bison of 

 North America. . Pp. 12. with plates. — 

 Manson, Marsderi. Observations on the 

 Denudation of Vegetation. Pp. 18, with 

 plates.— Mason, Otis T. The Latimer Col- 

 lection of Antiquities from Puerto Rico, 

 and the Guerde Collection of Antiquities 

 from Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe. Pp. 837. 

 ^Pammel, Louis H. Anatomical Charac- 

 ters of Seeds of Leguminosse. Pp. 262, 

 with tables and plates. — Ravenel. Mazyck 

 P. The Resistance of Bacteria to Cold. Pp. 

 n.— Yceder, M. A. Questions in regard to 

 the Diphtheria Bacillus. Pp. 6.— West, 

 Max. The Public Domain of the United 

 States. Pp. 32.— Wilder, Burt C. Some 

 Misapprehensions as to the Simplified No- 

 menclature of Anatomy. Pp. 24. 



Ripley, William Z. The Races of Eu- 

 rope. Accompanied by a Supplementary 

 Bibliography of the Anthropology and Eth- 

 nology of Europe. Published by the Pub- 

 lic Library of the City of Boston. New 

 York: D. Appletou and Company. Pp. 



624, with plates and Supplement, Pp. 

 160. $0. 



Stearns, Frederick, and Pilsby, Henry 

 A. Catalogue of the Marine Mclllusks of 

 Japan. Detroit: Frederick Stearns. Pp. 

 196, with plates. 



Tilden, William A. A Short History of 

 the Progress of Scientific Chemistry with- 

 in our own Times. New York: Longmans, 

 Green & Co. Pp. 276. 



United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture: Bulletin No. 19. The Structure of 

 the Caryopsis of Grasses with Reference 

 to their Morphology and Classification. 

 By P. B. Kennedy. Pp. 44, with plates. — 

 No. 26. Lightning and the Electricity of 

 the Air. By A. G. McAdie and A. .1. 

 Henry. Pp. 74, with plates.— No. 56. His- 

 tory and Present Status of Instruction in 

 Cooking in the Public Schools of New 

 York City. By Mrs. L. E. Hogan. Pp. 70. 



Vinconti, Giuseppi. La Fonografia I'ni- 

 versale Michela. o La Fono-Telegrafla Uni- 

 versale Vincenti. (The Michela Universal 

 Phonography, or the Vincenti Universal 

 Phono-Telegraphy.) In Italian, French, 

 and English. Pp. 40, with plates.— Short 

 Course in Michela's Universal Hand-Pho- 

 nographic System. (In Italian.) Pp. 24; 

 New and Partial Applications of Michela's 

 Phonographic Table for the Use of the 

 Universal Alphabet. Pp. 6. (All pub- 

 lished at Ivrea, Italy.) 



Warder, George W. The New Cosmog- 

 onv. New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing 

 Company. Pp. 293. 



Warman, Cy. Snow on the Headlight. 

 A Story of the Great Burlington Strike. 

 Now York: D. Appleton and Compauv. 

 Pp. 249. $1.25. 



Weber. Adna F. The Growth of Cities 

 in the Nineteenth Century. A Study in 

 Statistics. (Columbia University Studies.) 

 New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 

 495. .$3.50. 



Yale University, Observatory of. Re- 

 port for lS9S-'99. Pp. 21. 



^raomeiitB ot Jicletxce, 



Death of Dr. Brinton. — By the 

 death of Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, at At- 

 lantic City, N. J., July 31st, America 

 loses one of the most industrious and 

 intelligent students of its ethnology, 

 languages, and antiquities. We think 

 we may safely say of him that he did 

 as much as any other single man among 

 us to organize and systematize these 

 studies and put them ou a stable foun- 

 dation and a broad basis. To them 

 he devoted his time, his heart, and his 

 fortune. Dr. Brinton was born in West 

 Chester, Pa., in 1S37 ; was a graduate 

 of Yale College and of Jefferson Medical 

 College; served in medical departments 

 in the United States Volunteer Army 

 during the civil war; was for several 

 years editor of the Medical and Surgical 



Reporter and of the Quarterly Com- 

 pendium of Medical Science; and was 

 finally drawn predominantly to the 

 study of American ethnology and lan- 

 guages, to which he contributed a long 

 list of books, special articles, and para- 

 graphs, a large proportion of them fruits 

 of his own investigations. For his work 

 in this department he received, in 18(50, 

 the medal of the Socii?t6 Americaine 

 de France. He was Professor of Eth- 

 nology and Archaeology in the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, and of American Linguistics and 

 Archaeology in the University of Penn- 

 syhania, and was President of the An- 

 tiquarian and Numismatic Society of 

 Philadelphia. He was President of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 



