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THE MUSEUM. 



Leading Natural Science Articles 



of the Month Among our 



Exchanges. 



The Mineral Collector, New York, Aug., '!I6. 

 1. Concerning (Quartz. 2. A General De- 

 scription of Cumberland County. 3. On the 

 History of Claystoues. 4. Pumice Stone. 

 T). On the Formation of Hematite on Staten 

 Island, N. Y. 6. Hints on Testing Minerals. 



7. Ode to Lake Superior Minerals. 8. Small 

 Pyrite Crystals. 0. How Gems Change 

 C'olor. 



Nntural Science, London; August, '96. 

 1. Notes and Comments. 3. Joseph Prest- 

 wick. 3. On English Amber and Amber 

 Generally. 4. Two Views on Museums Gen- 

 erally. The Skeleton in the Museum and the 

 Museum of the Future. 5. Sporozoa. G. 

 Ivyell and Lamarckism, A Rejoinder. 7. 

 Some New Books, Correspondence, «.tc. 



The Mirroscope, Washington; July, '!I6. 

 1. Truth About Microbes. 2. Geological 

 Distribution of the Faramenifera. 3. Note 

 on an Optical Rule. 4. Editorial. Practical 

 Suggestion and Science Gossip. 



Popular Science, New York; August, '96. 

 1. Compound Animals. 2. A Plea for For- 

 ests. 3, Crabs. 4. Is the Pumpkin Amer- 

 ican. 5. Microscopical Organisms in Drink- 

 ing Water. G. Birds of Alaska 7. Putre- 

 faction and Disinfection. 8. Arohteology 

 and Anthropology on the Old Continent. 9. 

 Ancient Mohican Interments. 10. Corres- 

 pondence, Notes, Inijuiries, Recent inven- 

 tions. 



Meehan's Monlhly, Philsidelphia; August, '96. 



1. Hypericum Kalmianum. 2. Wild Flow- 

 ers and Nature, Notes. 3. F'orestry. Notes. 

 4. General Gardening. Notes. 5. New and 

 Rare Plants. 6. Biography and Literature. 



7'he Nidiologisi, California; June-July, '96. 

 1 Niditication of the White-necked Raven. 



2. Oriuthology in Norway. 3. Song Flight 

 of the Prairie Horned Lark. 4. The Red- 

 breasted Nuthatch. 5. Bird Notes from 

 Montgomery Co., Pa. 6. Yellow-headed 

 Blackbird in Wisconsin. 7. Wood Thrush. 



8. The Florida Red-shouldered Hawk. 9. 

 The American Bittern. 10. Raptorism Mary- 

 land. 11. The Hawk Diary. 12. Nesting 

 of the Nashville Warbler. ' 13. The Photo 

 Fiend. 14. Cahto Birds. 15. The Colora- 

 tion of Eggs. 16. The Oven Bird. 17. Notes. 



The Oologist, New York. No numbers pub- 

 lished recently to our knowledge. 



The Naturalist, England; August, '96. 1. 

 Bibliography, Lepidoptera, 1892. 3, Natur- 

 al Histoy Notes from Whitby. 3. Masses of 

 South Lincolnshire. 4. A Critical Catalog- 

 ue of Lincolnshire plants, n. Gossip on Na- 

 tural History. 6. Notes. Fungi. 7. Notes, 

 Ornithology. 8. Notes, Hemiptera. 9. Notes, 

 Geology and Botany. 



2he Oregon Xaturalist, Oregon; July, '96. 



1. A Birth and a Tragedy. 2. Amethyst. 

 3. Sea Urchins. 4. Flamingoes Seen Here. 

 T). Mexican Hieroglyphs. 6. Kadiak Island. 

 7. The Imported and Acclimated German 

 Song Birds in Oregon. 8. Habits of the 

 Chipping Sparrow. 



Seientijic American; July 18. '96. 1. The 

 International Geological Congress at St. Pet- 

 ersburgh, Aug., '97. 3 'I'attooing by the 

 Maori Race. 3 Cave Exploration in the 

 Eastern United States. 4. Excavations at 

 Corinth. .'>. A Living Fossil, (i. The Ma- 

 tabeles and Mashonas, Aug. 1, '96. 1. Nest 

 Building Fishes. 2. Recent Archadological 

 News. Aug. 8, '96. 1. A Baby Kangaroo 

 at the Zoological Gardens, London. 



TIte Kansas University Quarterly, Lawrence; 

 July. '96. 1. Projective Groups of Per- 

 spective Collineatious in the Plane, Treated 

 Synthetically 3. Hoplophoneus Occiden- 

 talis. 3. One of of the Dermal Coverings of 

 Hesperornis. 4. The Duty of the Scholar in 

 Politics. 



Modern Petrography. 



Au accounl of the Applicatiuu ot the JMii-roscnpe to 

 the Study of Geology, by George Huntinuton Wil- 

 liams, of the John Hopkins University. Paper, 3,5 pp. 



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