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Science Progress. No. io. (London : The Scientific Press.) 



Price 2/6. 



The December Number of this valuable Journal has reached us. It con- 

 tains the following articles : — On the Artificial Hatching of Marine Food-Fishes; 

 The Molecular Weight of Liquids ; The Origin of the Vascular Plants ; Recent 

 Researches in Thermal Metamorphism (Part 2) ; Continuous Current Dynamos 

 (Part 2) ; On the Morphological Value of the Attraction-Sphere (Part 2) ; 

 Kew Thermometers. There is also an Appendix of Chemical Literature for 

 October. 



Common Things and Useful Information. Cr. 8vo, pp. 256. 

 (London : Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1895.) Price i/-. 



One of the series of Royal Handbooks of General Knowledge ; gives in 

 Dictionary Form the more important points in Natural History, Elementary 

 Science, Physiology, and Common Things. These are all treated in full and 

 readable manner ; the book is nicely illustrated. 



Theophrastus on Winds and Weather Signs. Translated 

 by Jas. G. Wood, M.A., LLB., F.G.S., and edited by G. J. Symons, F.R.S. 

 8vo, pp. 97. (London : Edward Stanford. 1894.) 



This is a translation of the work of Theophrastus of Erebus, the favourite 

 pupil of Aristotle, on Winds and on Weather Signs, to which is added an Appen- 

 dix on the Direction, Number, and Nomenclature of the Winds in classical and 

 later times. There are 5 plates showing Maps of Greece and the Country 

 round Athens ; Horologium of Andronikos ; Aristotle's Diagrams ; and Table 

 of the Winds in the Museo Pio Clementino. 



The Divining Rod: Its History, with full instructions for 

 finding subterranean springs. By J. F. Young and R. Robertson. Cr. 8vo, pp. 

 viii. — 138. (Clifton : J. Baker and Son. London : 25 Paternoster Sq. 1894.) 

 Price 1/6 net. 



The authors explain here various methods of using the rod, and show how 

 it can be verified. The book also contains an essay, entitled "Are the claims 

 and pretensions of the Divining Rod valid and true ? " 



Lectures on The Darwinian Theory. By the late Arthur 

 Milnes Marshall, M.A., M.D., B.Sc, F.R.S., etc. Edited by C. F. Marshall, 

 M.D., B.Sc, F.R.C.S.,etc. 8vo, pp. XX.-236. (London: D. Nutt. 1894.) 6/- 



This volume consists of a series of lectures delivered in connection with the 

 Extension Lectures of the Victoria Univ., 1893, and are on the following sub- 

 jects : — History of the Theory of Evolution ; Artificial and Natural Selection ; 

 The Argument from Palaeontology ; from Embryology ; The Colours of Animals 

 and Plants ; Objections to the Darwinian Theory ; The Origin of the Verte- 

 brated Animals ; and the Life and Work of Darwin. There are 36 illustrations 

 and a photo-engraved Frontispiece of the Archaeopterix. 



With the Woodlanders & By the Tide. Cr. Svo. pp. 305. 

 Annals of a Fishing Village. Cr. Svo, pp. viii. — 261. 

 From Spring to Fall, or When Life Stirs. Cr. Svo, pp. 244. 



By "A Son of the Marshes." Edited by J. A. Owen. (London : William 

 Blackwood and Son. 1894.) Price 3/6 each. 



It is with no small degree of pleasure that we read these exceeding inter- 

 esting little volumes from the pen of " A Son of the Marshes." There^ is a 

 peculiar fascmation in the author's style, which makes it impossible to find a 

 dry page in any number of his books, turn where you will. 



