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some of considerable general interest. We 

 specially notice the two presidential ad- 

 dresses. The first, by retiring President 

 Dr. A. H. Thompson, is concerning the 

 " Origin and History of the Academy," and 

 gives a rapid review of the growth of sci- 

 entific work in Kansas, and of the transac- 

 tions of the fifteen previous annual meet- 

 ings of the society. The other address, by 

 Dr. R. J. Brown, is a discussion of the ques- 

 tion, " Is a Geological Survey of the State 

 a Necessity ? " and presents summaries of 

 the benefits that have accrued from their 

 surveys in other States in which such works 

 have been prosecuted. 



Thk Hoosier Naturalist. Vol. I, No. 1, 

 August, 1885. A. C. Jones and R. B. 

 Trouslot, Editors and Publishers, Val- 

 paraiso, Ind. (Monthly.) Pp. 8. Price, 

 50 cents a year. 



The editors claim to have in Valparaiso 

 a rare combination of facilities to encourage 

 the publication of a scientific journal, in- 

 cluding a large normal school, with classes 

 in zoology, geology, and botany ; the Mu- 

 seum of the American Institute, of which 

 one of them is custodian ; and surroundings 

 of excellent collecting-grounds. Such enter- 

 prises as this are evidence of a living love 

 for science, and help to stimulate and ex- 

 tend it. 



Aims and Methods of the Teaching of 

 Physics. By Professor Charles K. 

 Wead. Washington : Government Print- 

 ing-Office. Pp.158. 

 The author of this paper was commis- 

 sioned by the Commissioner of Education 

 to draw up a set of inquiries respecting the 

 teaching of physics, send them to teachers, 

 and collate and discuss the answers which 

 should be received. The questions related 

 to various points respecting the expediency 

 of the teaching, the prominence and extent 

 that should be given to it, and the method 

 in which it should be done. Answers were 

 received from seventy-two teachers in nor- 

 mal and secondary schools and colleges and 

 universities, and other persons experienced 

 in educational work, and are here given and 

 reviewed. To these is added information 

 from other countries. This is followed by an 

 attempt to discover that consistent scheme 

 of physics study which is favored by the 

 majority of the contributors. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



■Wintering Bees. By A. J. Cook. Agricoltarsl 

 College of Michigan. I'p. G. 



Impounding the Nile Floods. London: The 

 Bedford PrebS. Pp. G, with Map. 



Pittsburg and Wevtern Pcuns}'lvania. Issued 

 bv the I'ittbburg Chamber of Commerce. Pp. 128. 

 With Map. 



Something about Natural Gas. By George H. 

 Thurston. Pittsburg. Pp. 82. 



Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Lecture Pro- 

 gramme. ISSo-'SG. 



Insanity of the Past, pp. S; Report on Cerebro- 

 spinal Pathology, pp. is; Forty Years of Cerebro- 

 spinal Patliology, jip. IG. All by Dr. Daniel Clark. 

 Toronto, Ont. 



American Economic Association. Constitution, 

 etc. Piohard T. Ely, Secretary. Baltimore, Md. 

 Pp. 16. 



The Climatic Treatment of Phthisis. By Harold 

 Williams, M. D. Pp. 19. 



Diana. New York : Burnz & Co. Pp. 56. 



Sensory Aphasia. By Morton Prince, M. D. 

 Boston. Pp. 14. 



Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns 

 Hopkins University, lialtimore : N.Murray. Pj). 

 24. Price, iiO cents a nuuiber. $8 a volume. 



Moral and Material Progress contrasted. By 

 Lester F. Ward. Washington: Judd ifc Detweiler. 

 Pp. IC. 



Syllabus of the Instruction in Biology. By De- 

 los Fall. Albion, Mich. Pp. 24. 



United States Government Publications. Month- 

 ly Catalogues, Nos. T and S. Washington : J. II. 

 Ilickox. Pp. 20 each. 



Juarez and Cesar Cantu. Refutation of Charges 

 preferred by the Italian Historian. Official edition. 

 Mexico : Government Printing-Office. 1 p. 55. 



Eemsrkables protuberances solaires (Remarkable 

 Solar Protuberances), pp. 3 ; La planete Saturne en 

 18S5 (The Planet Saturn in 1885), pp. 4; Observa- 

 tion d'une essaira de corpnscules noirs passant de- 

 vant le soleil (Observation of a Swarin of Black Cor- 

 puscles passing in Front of the Sun), pp. 8; Murs 

 enigmatiques observes a la surface de la lune (Enig- 

 m.itical Walls observed on the Surface of the Moon), 

 pp. 4; Sur la structure intime de I'enveloppe bo- 

 laire(On the Intimate Structure of the Solar Enve- 

 lope), pp. 29. With Plates. All by E. L. Trouvelot. 

 Paris. 



Distribution of the Reserve Material of Plants 

 in Relation to Disease. By D. P. Penhallow. Pp. 

 10. 



The Preparatory Schools and the Modern Lan- 

 guage Equivalent for the Greek. By Charles E. Fay, 

 Tufts College. Pp. 16. 



Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner to Ben- 

 jamin Apthorp Gould. Lynn, Mass. : Thomas P. 

 is'ichols. Pp. 40. 



The Lick Observalorv, Mount Hamilton, Cali- 

 fornia. By David P. Todd. Pp 24. 



Extensions of Certain Theorems of Chfford and 

 of Cayley in the Geometry of i^^ Dimensions. By 

 E. H.'Moore, Jr. Pp.8. 



Main Drainage and Water Supply of Chicago. 

 Report of Committee of Citizens' Association. J. C. 

 Ambler, Secretary. Pp. 82. 



The Relations between the Thcromorphous Rep- 

 tiles and the Monotreme Mammali.i, pp. 12 ; and 

 Various Geolopiciil and Paleoutological Notes. By 

 E. D. Cope. Philadelphia. 



Aim and Method of the Romaji Kai, or Roman 

 Alphabet Association of Japan. Tokio : Imperial 

 Printing-Ollice. Pp. 2S. 



Pounding and Polishing Rice in England and 

 Gerniatiy, pp. 10 ; Tho Licorice- Plant, pp. 20. 

 (United States Consuliir Reports.) Washington : 

 Government Printing-Offico. 



Report on Sanitary Improvement Bonds oi: 



