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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



DioncEa mvscipula (Ellis), by J. M. MacFar- 

 lane; An Abnormal Development of Inflo- 

 rescence of Dioncea, by John W. Harsh- 

 berger; Mangrove Tannin, by H. Trimble; 

 Epigaza repens, by W. P. Wilson ; A Nascent 

 Variety of Brunella vulgaris, by J. T. Roth- 

 rock ; and Movements of the Leaves of Meli- 

 lotus alba and other Plants, by W. P. Wilson. 



The History of the Higher Education in 

 Ohio is published by the United States Bu- 

 reau of Education as a number of Herbert 

 B. Adams's series of contributions to Ameri- 

 can educational history. The preparation of 

 the work was undertaken by Prof. George 

 W. Knight, and, he falling ill, has been con- 

 tinued and completed by Mr. John R. Com- 

 mons. The history of college education in 

 Ohio is of peculiar interest, on account of the 

 relatively large number of colleges that have 

 been organized within the State, and the va- 

 riety of the experiments that have been tried 

 in connection with them. The success and 

 failure alike of these institutions afford les- 

 eons valuable to men interested in education. 



The Lake Magazine is a new monthly 

 periodical, devoted to politics, science, and 

 general literature, published at Toronto, Ont., 

 and intended to represent Canadian thought, 

 discuss Canadian questions, and promote Ca- 

 nadian interests. The first number contains 

 articles on Canada and Imperial Federation, 

 The Franchise, A Canadian Literature, Art 

 in Canada, etc. For succeeding numbers, 

 articles are promised from leading politicians, 

 divines, and literary men, on topics of cur- 

 rent interest. 



The report of the Public Industrial and 

 Art School, Philadelphia, gives an account of 

 the objects of the school, its methods, rules, 

 regulations, and course of instruction. The 

 directors claim that this school was the first 

 practical and successful attempt ever made 

 in Philadelphia or elsewhere to incorporate 

 manual training as an integral branch of 

 common-school education. It was started 

 in 1880, largely through the efforts of Mr. 

 Charles G. Leland. It has grown rapidly, 

 and its facilities have been enlarged till now 

 nearly seventeen hundred pupils, from every 

 grade of the public schools and the teachers' 

 classes, are taught in it weekly. 



A Sketch of the Life of Joseph Leidy, 

 prepared by Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger for 

 the American Philosophical Society, is pub- 



lished by MacAlla & Co., Philadelphia. It 

 contains in an appendix a list of Dr. Leidy's 

 publications, society papers, and verbal re- 

 ports to scientific societies, occupying twenty 

 closely printed pages, together with a list of 

 learned societies at home and abroad of 

 which he was a member. 



The National Popular Review is a new 

 illustrated journal of preventive medicine 

 and applied sociology, edited by P. C. Re- 

 mondino, M. D., and published by J. Harri- 

 son White, at San Diego, California. It pro- 

 poses in all matters to occupy a middle ground 

 whereon the profession and the laity may 

 meet to discuss matters of common interest. 



Department M of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, Chicago, includes the branches 

 of Ethnology, Archceology, History, Cartog- 

 raphy, Latin-American Bureau, Collective 

 and Isolated Exhibits. It will have forty 

 acres of floor space in the building, and a 

 strip of land nearly a thousand feet long in 

 addition. The plan and classification of the 

 exhibit are published in detail by Prof. F. 

 W. Putnam, chief of department, and pro- 

 vide for a very full showing, particularly in 

 the North American and Latin- American de- 

 partments. 



Of the fifth volume of the Journal of the 

 College of Science, Imperial University, Japan, 

 Part I contains Studies on Reproductive Ele- 

 ments ; on the Formation of the Germinal 

 Layers in Chelonia ; on the Development of 

 Limulus longispius ; on the Lateral Eyes of 

 the Spider; on a Collection of Birds from 

 Tsushima ; and on the Formation of Germi- 

 nal Layers in Petromyzon — all by Japanese 

 authors. Part II is mainly devoted to a 

 Study of the Disturbance of Isomagnetic3 

 attending the Mino-Owari Earthquake of 

 1891, by Profs. A. Tanakadate and H. Na- 

 gaoka, with an Optical Note by K. Takizawa. 



We have received Part III of Vol. I of 

 Iconographia Florce Japonicce — descriptions, 

 with figures, of plants indigenous to Japan, 

 which has been prepared by Mr. Ryokichi 

 Yatabe, and is published in Tokio. Plants 

 belonging to seventeen orders are described 

 and illustrated, with Japanese and English 

 text and full-page engravings. 



A lecture on The Discovery of America 

 by Christopher Columbus, which was deliv- 

 ered before the Young Men's Hebrew Asso- 

 ciation, in Wilkesbarre, Pa., in December, 



