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Artery. Pp.3. — A New Method of Tenotomy. Pp., 

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Lang, Dr. Arnold. Te.xt-Book of Comparative 

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MacDonald, M. Report of the Commissioner of 

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Mackay, John Henry. The Anarchists. Bos- 

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Means, James. Manllight. Boston. Pp. 29. 



Michigan Mining School, Houghton, Mich. Cata- 

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Mills, Wesley. How to keep a Dog in the City. 

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New York Academy of Sciences. Transactions 

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Penology, Papers in. Second Series. New York 

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Pick, Br. E. Method of acquiring the French 

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Pickering, Edward C. Preparation and Discus- 

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Eaum, Green B. Report of the Commissioner 

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Eidgwa}% Eobert. Note on Pachyrhamphns Al- 

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Eotch, A. Lawrence. Observations made at the 

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Shufeldt, Dr. R. W. Amateur Photographers 

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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Changes in tbe Grammar-school Pro- 

 gramme. — The Association of Colleges in 

 New England, at its last annual meeting, 

 November 5 and 6, 1891, resolved to recom- 

 mend for gradual adoption the following 

 changes in the programme of New England 

 grammar schools : 1. The introduction of 

 elementary natural history into the earlier 

 years of the programme as a substantial 

 subject, to be taught by demonstrations and 

 practical exercises rather than from books. 

 2. The introduction of elementary physics 

 into the later years of the programme as a 

 substantial subject, to be taught by the ex- 

 perimental or laboratory method, and to in- 

 clude exact weighing and measuring by the 

 pupils themselves. 3. The introduction of 

 elementary algebra at an age not later than 

 twelve years. 4. The introduction of ele- 

 mentary plane geometry at an age not later 

 than thirteen years. 5. The offering of op- 

 portunity to study French, or German, or 

 Latin, or any two of these languages, from 

 and after the age of ten years. In order to 

 make room in the programme for these new 

 subjects the Association recommends that 

 the time allotted to arithmetic, geography, 

 and English grammar be reduced to what- 

 ever extent may be necessary. The Associa- 

 tion makes these recommendations in the 

 interest of the public-school system as a 

 whole ; but most of them are offered more 

 particularly in the interest of those children 

 whose education is not to be continued be- 

 yond the grammar school. 



The British Association, — The meeting 

 of the British Association in August at Car- 

 diff does not appear to have been as fully 

 attended or as interesting as some of the 

 preceding meetings. The week was a very 

 rainy one, and that, no doubt, diminished to 

 a considerable extent the number of visit- 

 ors. The total attendance was about fifteen 

 hundred, or two hundred less than that at 

 the Leeds meeting, which was under the 

 average. But, by virtue of an unusually 

 large accession of life-members, the funds 

 at the disposal of the Association for scien- 

 tific purposes were almost equal to those 

 available at Leeds. From a scientific point 

 of view, Nature remarks, the meeting may 



