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reasoning men admit that the action of the 

 law is a step in the right direction." It is 

 to the advantage of the oleomargarine-man, 

 for his good oleomargarine gets the credit 

 for being what it is ; while the buyer of 

 bad butter is informed by the absence of 

 the brand that it is not oleomargarine that 

 he is nauseating himself with. The third 

 motive is altogether bad ; and not its least 

 mischievous tendency is to the building up 

 of monopolies. On account of it, the pres- 

 ent law should be repealed, to pave the way 

 for a consistent, comprehensive, and whole- 

 some enactment ; for its unconditional re- 

 peal without any delay "might open the 

 way for a national act concerning the adul- 

 teration of food that would commend itself 

 to every citizen, and meet a crying want of 

 the times." Waiting this, the authors pro- 

 pose certain suggestions for the alteration 

 and amendment of the existing legislation. 



Revce Internationale, scientifiqce et 

 populaire, des falsifications des den- 

 REES Alimentaires. (International Re- 

 view, Scientific and Popular, of Falsifi- 

 cations of Food=:.) Dr. P. F. Van Hamel 

 Roos, Editor. Vol. I, No. 1. Septem- 

 ber 15, 1887. Amsterdam : Albert de 

 Lange. Bimonthly. Pp. 32. Price, 8 

 francs a year. 



This journal is established in pursuance 

 of a suggestion which was emitted by the 

 editor at the International Pharmaceutical 

 and Chemical Congress of 1885, that a peri- 

 odical should be published to warn people 

 of all nations against detected adulterations, 

 and to serve as an organ of communication 

 among hygienists and chemists, and pro- 

 mote uniformity of research. The idea was 

 well received, and Dr. Van Uamel Roos, 

 who was at the time conducting a Dutch 

 journal of the same character, has since 

 been preparing to begin the work. He has 

 secured a large list of collaborators and cor- 

 respondents from most of the important 

 countries of the world, distinguished hy- 

 gienists, chemists, etc., including Dr. Willis 

 G. Tucker, of Albany, from the United 

 States. The present number is published 

 in French, with a few articles in German or 

 English also; but it is contemplated, if the 

 clientage demands it, ultimately to publish 

 the whole in three languages — French, Ger- 

 man, and English. The contents of the 

 number include papers on the measures 



against adulteration in force in Spain ; mu- 

 nicipal inspection of provisions at Amster- 

 dam ; international measures against adul- 

 terations (reports of the Vienna Congress on 

 the subject) ; analyses of the peptones of 

 commerce ; substitutions for spices ; adul- 

 teration of flour with alum ; " Definition of 

 Falsification " ; and supplementary articles 

 devoted to hygiene and industry. 



Bulletin of the United States Geological 

 Survey, Nos. 30 to 39. Washington : 

 Government Printing Ofiice, 



No. 30. Second Contribution to the 

 Studies on the Cambrian Faunas of North 

 America. By Charles D. Walcott. Pp. 

 3G9. Price, 25 cents. — This monograph 

 embraces what the author designates as the 

 " Middle Cambrian Fauna," or that which 

 is referable to the Georgia Horizon, but in- 

 cluding also formations in the St. Lawrence 

 Valley, Labrador and Newfoundland ; Troy, 

 New York ; and districts in the Western 

 surveys. 



No. 31. Systematic Review of our 

 Present Knowledge of Fossil Insects, in- 

 cluding Myriapods and Arachnids, By 

 Samuel H. Scudder. Pp. 128. Price, 15 

 cents. — This paper is the original form and 

 the authorized English edition of the arti- 

 cle which was furnished by Mr. Scudder — 

 who is the most thorough-going of the 

 American students in this branch of pale- 

 ontology — to Dr. Zittel, for his " Handbuch 

 der Palaontologie," and is furnished, with 

 the concurrence of the author and publisher 

 of that work, for the convenience of Eng- 

 lish readers. 



No. 32. Mineral Springs of the United 

 States. By Albert C. Peale, M. D. Pp. 

 235. Price, 20 cents. — This book was no- 

 ticed in the "Monthly" for March, 1887. 



No. 33. Notes on the Geology of North- 

 ern California. By J. S. Diller. Pj). 23. 

 Price, 5 cents. — This report embraces recon- 

 naissances of the Cascade Range, Mount 

 Shasta, and the Coast and Sierra Nevada 

 Ranges in Northern California and Oregon. 

 The surface features are grouped into two 

 valleys — the Willamette and Sacramento— 

 and three mountain-ranges. The limestone 

 among the metamorphic rocks of the Coast 

 and Sierra Nevada Ranges is referred to 

 the Carboniferous age. 



