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beginning of feeding experiments with milch- 

 cows, for which extensive preparations had 

 been made, also feeding experiments with 

 poultry and swine, and tests of various sor- 

 ghums. Considerable analytical work on a 

 variety of substances had been done by the 

 chemist ; the horticulturist reports tests of a 

 number of vegetables and small fruits ; the 

 pomologist describes his researches of the 

 year on the grape and the peach ; and a 

 variety of operations are embraced in the 

 report of the farm superintendent. 



Mr. James Terrij, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York, has 

 published a monograph on three Sculptured 

 Anthropoid Ape Heads found in the valley 

 of the Columbia River. These heads were 

 carved from a dark pumiceous, basaltic rock! 

 and the author regards as the most probable 

 conclusion concerning their origin " cither 

 that the animals which these carvings rep- 

 resent once existed in the Columbia Valley, 

 or that, in the remote past, a migration of 

 natives from some region containing these 

 monkeys reached this valley, and left one of 

 the vivid impressions of their former sur- 

 roundings in these imperishable sculptures." 

 Five artotype plates accompany the text. 



A handsomely printed monograph of one 

 hundred and fifty-six quarto pages, entitled 

 Dynamics of the Sun, has been published by 

 J. Woodbridffe Davis (D. Van Nostrand Co., 

 New York). It is a mathematical and theo- 

 retical essay dedicated to the astronomers, 

 and they alone will be able to appre- 

 ciate it. 



A Chart of the Metric System, published 

 by the American Metrological Society, con- 

 tains tables of the measures of length, area, 

 capacity, and weight ; definitions of the terms 

 used in the system ; equivalents of cubic 

 measures and weights, and exact-sized dia- 

 grams of the metre, the metre graduated into 

 decimetres, centimetres, and millimetres : the 

 litre ; the cubic centimetre ; ten cubic centi- 

 metres ; one hundred cubic centimetres ; 

 the cubic decimetre ; and the kilogramme 

 weight ; the whole covering a sheet suitable 

 to hang on the wall. On the back are 

 printed facts concerning the metric system ; 

 the action of various nations and of the 

 United States adopting or recognizing it ; 

 the adaptation of the metric units to various 

 scales of plans ; metric equivalents of old 



units ; graphical conversion and oflBcial ab- 

 breviations ; the metric system in govern- 

 ment business ; its adaptation to the United 

 States land system ; metric railway curves ; 

 and other information. 



The third volume of Dr. McCoolc's Amer- 

 ican Spiders and their Spinnimj-work will be 

 ready for delivery in the coming spring. 

 The cost of preparing the numerous en- 

 gravings and plates has so greatly exceeded 

 the expectations of the author (who is also 

 the publisher) that he feels constrained to 

 raise the price to new subscribers from $30 

 to $50 the set. 



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