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of several new substances, such as algin | man of science in the strict sense of the 



and thyroglandin; he was the author of 

 the monograph on the iodine industry 

 in Tiiorpe's Dictionary of Chemistry; 

 and John lluskin, who, though not a 



term, did his full share for the advance- 

 ment of knowledge and comfort among 

 men, at Coniston Lake, England, Janu- 

 ary 20th, in his eighty-first year. 



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Agricultural Experiment Stations. 

 Bulletins and Reports. Summary of 

 Feeding-Stuffs Law in Force in New 

 York after December 1, 1899. P. 1. 

 Bulletin No. 159. A Pest of Woodland 

 and Grove. (The Forest Tent Cater- 

 pillar). By F. IL Hail and V. H. Lowe. 

 Pp. 5; No. 160. Keport of Analyses of 

 Commercial Fertilizers for the Fall of 

 1S99. By L. S. Van Slyke. Pp. 102; 

 No. IGl. Popular Edition. Gooseberry 

 Mildew held in Check. By' F. H. Hall 

 and C. P. Close. Pp. 4 ; Newspaper Sum- 

 maries of these Three Bulletins. P. 1. 



Carter, Oscar C. S. Coastal Topog- 

 raphy of the United States. Pp. 30. 



Connecticut, State of. Fifteenth An- 

 nual Eeport of the Bureau of Labor 

 Statistics for the Year ending Septem- 

 ber 30, 1899. Pp. 2G6. 



Densmore, Emmet, M. D. Consump- 

 tion and Kindred Diseases. (Open-air 

 Treatment.) Brooklyn, N. Y.: The Still- 

 mann Publishing Company. Pp. 138. 



Douglas, James, New York City. 

 American Transcontinental Lines. Pp. 

 56. 



Fry, the Right Hon. Sir Edward, 

 and Agnes. The Mycetozoa and some 

 Questions which they Suggest. Lon- 

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 shilling. 



Gay, Albert, and Yeaman, C. H. An 

 Introduction to the Study of Central 

 Station Electricity Supply. New York: 

 The Macmillan Company. Pp. 167. $3. 



Johnston, Charles. The Memory of 

 Past Births. New York: The IVIeta- 

 physical Publishing Company. Pp. 50. 

 25 cents. 



King, F. H. Irrigation and Drainage. 

 Principles and Practice of their Cultu- 

 ral Piiases. New York: The Macmillan 

 Company. Pp. 502. $1.50. 



Kunz, George F. The Production of 

 Precious Stones in 1898. United States 

 Geological Survey. Pp. 48, witli plate. 



Marine Biological Laboratory, at 

 Woods lloll, Mass. Announcement for 

 the Thirteenth Season. July 5 to Au- 

 gust 10, 1900. Pp. 12. 



McKay, A. H., Halifax, Nova Sco- 

 tia. Phenological Observations, Canada, 

 1898. Pp. 20. 



McKim, W. Duncan. Heredity and 

 Human Progress. New York: G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons. Pp. 283. $1.50. 



Michigan. Thirty-seventh Annual 

 Report of the Secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, and Eleventh An- 

 nual Report of the Agricultural College 

 Experiment Station. July 1, 1897, to 

 June 30, 1898. Pp. 740. 



New Y'ork State Library Bulletin. 

 (Legislation No. 11, January, 1900.) 

 Albany. Pp. 395. 25 cents. 



Parker, T. Jaffrey, and Haswell, Wil- 

 liam A. A Manual of Zoology. Revised 

 and adapted for the use of American 

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Peet, Stephen Denison. The Cliff- 

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 Office of the American Antiquarian. 

 Pp. 398. 



Smithsonian Institution. List of 

 Publications available for Distribution. 

 December, 1899. Pp. 35. 



Sound Currency. October, 1899. De- 

 posit Currency; the Effective Currency 

 of Commercial " Communities. Pp. 12. 

 November, 1899. The Farmer's Interest 

 in the Banking Question. Pp. 8. Both 

 by L. Carroll Root. 



Spencer, Frank Clarence. Education 

 of the Pueblo Child. A Study in Ar- 

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 No. 1.) New York: The Macmillan 

 Company. Pp. 97. 75 cents. 



United States Commissioner of Edu- 

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 Vol. II. Containing Parts II and III. 

 Pp. 2640. 



United States Commissioner of Fish 

 and Fisheries. The Preservation of 

 Fishery Products for Food. By Charles 

 II. Stevenson. Pp. 570. 



United States Department of Labor. 

 Bulletin No. 25. November, 1899. For- 

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