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English rule by the Duke of York's laws ; 

 the cities of New York and Albany received 

 a large degree of autonomy ; the creation of 

 an elected county authority immediately fol- 

 lowed the establishment of a legislature in 

 1691 ; and the powers of the legislature and 

 the county supervisors were both inci-eased 

 at the expense of the central executive dur- 

 ing the next one hundred years. This power 

 seems to have reached its culmination in the 

 Constitution of 1821, after which an isolated 

 movement or two in the reverse direction 

 may be perceived, the beginning of a tend- 

 ency that became more evident about the 

 middle of the century. Since then the re- 

 turn toward centralization has become more 

 and more marked and rapid, and has now 

 gained great force, the tendency toward 

 State control and direct State administration 

 being accompanied by a marked develop- 

 ment of what may be called local centraliza- 

 tion. Mr. FairUe's paper is a careful study 

 of the causes and influences that have con- 

 tributed to this later movement. 



The fifteenth volume of the Transactions 

 of the Kansas Academy of Science contains 

 the minutes of the twenty-eighth and twen- 

 ty-ninth annual meetings, 1895, 1896, with 

 eight of the papers read at the former meet- 

 ing, and a considerably larger number of 

 those read at the latter. In all, forty-two 

 papers were read at the twenty-e'ghth annual 

 meeting, and forty at the twenty-ninth. 

 Measures have been taken by the academy 

 for the publication of scientific monographs 

 on the resources of the State. 



The Bibliography of the Metals of the 

 Platinum Group (platinum, palladium, iridi- 

 um, rhodium, osmium, and ruthenium), 1748- 

 1896, prepared by Prof. /. Lewis Howe, was 

 recommended to the Smithsonian Institution 

 for publication by the American Association's 

 committee for indexing chemical literature. 

 The compiler has tried to make the record of 

 the chemistry of the metals in question as 

 complete as possible, and it is believed that 

 few references of importance are omitted. 



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Agricnltiiral Experiment Stations. Bulletins 

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 lege: No. 47. Colorado's Worst Insect Pests and 

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 plates.— CcmellUniversitv: No. 148. The Quince 

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 ware College: No. 40. Soil Bacteria in their Re- 

 lation to Agriculture. Part I. By F. D. Chester. 

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Andrews, Charles M. The Historical Devel- 

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 of Vienna to the Present Time. New Y^ork: G. 

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Binet, Alfred; Ribot, Th.; and others, Editors. 

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 144. — Wisconsin Geological and Agricultural Sur- 

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Collins, G. S., Editor. Selections from Jean 

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Davis, H. M. The Rutherfurd Photographic 

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 Pp. 32. 



Goldman, Henry. The Arithmachinist. A 

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 Pp. 128. 81. 



Hayford, J. F. A Text-Book of Geodetic As- 

 tronomy. New Y'ork: John Wiley & Sons. Pp. 

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Hoffman, F. S. The Sphere of Science. A 

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Lytc, E. O. Elementary English. Pp. 160. 

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Pcckham, G. W., and Elizabeth C. On the 

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