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nual one, at least for several years to come. 

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The Manufacturer and Builder, W. H. 

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Abbott, Samuel. Editor. " The Collegian." Month- 

 ly. February. lsS9. Boston : New England Inter- 

 collegiate Press Association. Pp. 100. 30 cents. 

 $i5 a year. 



Bell, Clark. The Recent Judicial Departure in 

 Insanity Cases. New York. Pp. 43. 



Binet. Alfred. The Psychic Life of Micro-Ore-an- 

 isms. Chicago : Open Court Publishing Company. 

 Pp.121. T5 cents. 



Bruce, Philip A. The Plantation Negro as a 

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Buck. J. D., M. D. A Study of Man and the Way 

 to Health. Cincinnati : liobert Clarke & Co. Pp. 

 325. $2.50. 



Buckham. T. R., Flint, Mich. The " Right and 

 Wrong " Test of Insanity. Pp. 4. 



Burt, Stephen Smith, M. D. Exploration of the 

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Canfield, William B., M. D. On the Microscopical 

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Carpenter, William B. Nature and Man. New 

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Case, Thomas. Physical Realism. London and 

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Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

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Coulter, John M.. and Rose, J. N. Revision of 

 North American Umbelliferae. CrawfordsvUle, Ind. 

 Pp. 144, with Plates. 



Cram's Standard American Atlas of the World. 

 New York : William M. Goldthwaite, Manager. 



Crooker, Joseph Henry. Jesus Brought Back. 

 Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. Pp. 214. 



Crothers, T. D., M. D. Should Inebriates be 

 punished by Death for Crime? Hartford, Conn. 

 Pp. 9. 



" Current Literature " Monthly. February, 

 1889. New York. Pp. 186. 25 cents. %Z a year. 



Davis, Eben H. The Beginner's Reading-Book. 

 Philadelphia : J. B. Lippiucott Company. Pp. 128. 



Dawson, Sir J. William. On the Eozoic and 

 Palaeozoic Rocks of the Atlantic Coast of Canada, etc. 

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Dawson, Sir W., and G. M. On Cretaceous Plants 

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DonneU, E. J. Outlines of a New Science. New 

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Day, David T. Mineral Resources of the United 

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Drummond, A. T. The Great Lake Basins of the 

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Dyer, T. F. Thiselton. The Folk-Lore of Plants. 

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Eccles, R. G., M. D. Descent and Disease. 

 Brooklyn. Pp. 21. 



Fletcher, Alfred Ewen. Sonnenschein's Cyclo- 

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Geological Survey U. S., Bulletin. Nos. 40 to 47. 

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Gibson, R. J. Harvey. A Text-Book of Ele- 

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Gosse, Edmund. A History of Eighteenth Cent- 

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Gould, George M., M. D., Philadelphia. The 

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 their Correction. Pp 6.— Dreams, Sleep, Conscious- 

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Greely, A. W. Report of the Chief Signal-Officer 

 for 1SS7. Washington : Government Printing-Office. 

 Pp. 892. 



Gumey Hot-Water Heater Calendar for 1889. 

 Illinois. Message of Richard J. Oglesby, Gov- 

 ernor. Pp. 28. 



Illinois State University, Agricultural Experi- 

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Iowa Agricultural College Experiment Station. 

 Bulletins. 



Ives, Frederic E. A New Principle in Heliochro- 

 my. Philadelphia. Pp. 13. 



James, Prof. Joseph F. Distribution of Vernonia 

 in the United States. Pp. 5. 



Kansas State Board of Agriculture. Sixth Bien- 

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 torical Society. Sixth Biennial Report. Pp. 128. 



Kibler, Edward. The Universality of Two Tem- 

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Klein, Dr. Herrmann, and McClure, Edmund. 

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Kreider, George N., M. D., Springfield, 111. How 

 Micro-Organisms enter the Body. Pp. 8. 



Lake Forest University Catalogue, lSS8-'89. 

 Pp. 132. 



Lewis, T. H. Effigy Mounds in Northern Illi- 

 nois. Pp. 3. 



Mason, Levns D., M. D. Etiology of Dipsomania 

 and Heredity of "Alcoholic Inebriety." Pp. 21. — 

 Pathological Changes in Chronic Alcoholism. Pp. 8. 

 Fort Hamilton, L. I. 



Mayo, Rev. A. D. Industrial Education in the 

 South. Washington : Government Printing-Offlce. 

 Pp. 86, with Plates. 



Mills, Charles de B. The Tree of Mythology : its 

 Growth and Fruitage. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bar- 

 deen. Pp. 288. 



Navy Department, U. S. Report of the Chief of 

 the Bureau of Steam Engineering for 1S8S. Pp. 101. 

 —Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, February, 

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New York. Report of the State Board of Chari- 

 ties. Pp. 60.— Committee Report on the Insane. 

 Pp. 251.— Report of the State Reformatoiy. Pp. 62. 

 Oswald, Felix L., M. D. Days and Nights in the 

 Tropics. Boston: D. Lothrop "Company. Pp. 186, 

 with Plates. 



Preyer, Prof. W., and Brown, H. W. The Mind 

 of the Child. Part II. New Y'ork : D. Appletou & 

 Co. Pp.317. $1.50. 



Ranch, John H., M. D., Secretary Illinois State 

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