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example, and induce Mr. North to do the same, or at all events not to 

 give us measurements in decimals of an inch ? 



New Serials. 



The Natural Science Journal is published monthly by the Atlantic 

 Scientific Bureau, New Bedford, Mass., at i dollar per annum. 

 There is a staff of six editors. No. i, which has been sent to us, 

 consists of 28 pages, including advertisements. There are short 

 articles, platitudes, and poems, none of which are vulgar ; and the 

 following conundrum is offered to readers of the Journal : *' What is 

 an xld specimen ? " ^ The Journal appears to be the organ of a 

 company of dealers in natural history specimens. Despite the 

 similarity of title, we do not think that it is likely to be confused with 

 Natural Science. 



We have received the second number (February 1897) of ^^^ 

 Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal, an octavo monthly of 96 pages, 

 edited by Dr. William Russell, under the direction of eleven 

 leading Scottish medical men. It is published by W. F. Clay of 

 Edinburgh, at a price of two shillings : annual subscription one 

 guinea. The present part contains several good original articles of 

 medical and surgical interest, with reports of meetings of societies, 

 and abstracts of current literature. 



The resuscitated Aeronautical Society, alluded to in our last 

 number, has issued the first number of the Aeyonautical Journal. 



We also learn that Messrs. Marshall, Russell and Co., London, 

 and Messrs. Hughes and Harber, Longton, Staffordshire, are to 

 publish a quarterly, dealing, as its name implies, with East Asia. The 

 editor is Mr. H. Faulds, of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. Papers dealing 

 with natural history will be included, as well as an index to magazine 

 and newspaper articles touching on Eastern Asia. 



Further Literature Received. 



Relics of Primeval Life, J. W. Dawson : Hodder & Stoughton. First Principles of Natural 

 Philosophy, A. E. Dolbear: Ginn, Boston, U.S. Manuel de Geographie Botanique, Drude Poirault 

 livr. 14-16: Klincksieck. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, A. Geikie : Macmillan. 



The Danger to American Horticulture from the Introduction of Injurious Insects, T. D. A. 

 Cockerell. The Comparative Physiology of the Suprarenal Capsules, S. Vincent : Roy. Soc. (proof). 

 Rep. Proc. Soc. Nat. Hist. Cheltenham College, 1896. A National Department of Science necessary 

 for the Co-ordination of the Scientific Work of the U.S. Government, C. W. DabneJ'j Jr. : Science. 

 Civil Service in the Department of Agriculture, C. W. Dabney, Jr. : U.S. Dcp. Agrit.Circ. The 

 National University, A Growth, not a Creation, C. W. Dabney, Jr. : Science. Nansen the Norseman, 

 A. Crane : Brighton Herald. Descrip. of two new Murine Opossums. Phenacomys preblei, a new 

 Vole from the Mountains of Colorado. Revision of the Coyotes or Prairie Wolves, etc., C. Hart 

 Merriam : Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. Some Spinning Activities of Protoplasm in Starfish and 

 Echinus Eggs, G. F. Andrews: Journ. MorphoL, .\bstx.: Amer. Nat. Bibliogr. of S. African Geol., 

 Geol. Com. Cape of Good Hope. Mem. Austral. Museum, iii. The Ganodonta and their Relation- 

 ship to the Edentata, J. L. Wortman: Bull. Amer. Mils. Nat. Hist. Guide to the Fossil Invertebr. 

 and Plants, Dept. Geol. and Paljeont., Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Rep. Colombo Mus., 1896, pt. iv. 



Scot. Geogr. Mag., April; Amer. Journ. Sci., April; Victorian Nat., Feb.; Botan. Gazette, 

 March ; Chivers' New Book List, April ; Feuille des jeunes Nat., April ; Halifax Natural., ii.. No. 7 ; 

 Illinois Wes. Mag., March ; Irish Nat., April; Westminster Rev., April ; Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc, 

 iv., No. 4; Yorksh. W. Post, April 10 ; Journ. School. Geogr., March; Knowledge, April; Literary 

 Digest, March 13, 20, 27, April 3; McClure's Mag., April; Naturw Novit., March; Naturaleza 

 (Madrid), viii., Nos. g and 10 ; Naturalist, April ; Nature, March 25, April 1,8; Nature Notes, April ; 

 Naturen, March ; Photogram, April ; Revue Scient., March 27, April 3, 10; Science, March 12, 19, 26, 

 April 2; Science Gossip, April; Scientific Amer., March 13, 20, 27, April 3; Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. xi.; Journ. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Japan, vol. ix. (2). 



1 We are given to understand that xld is dealers' jargon for " crystallised." 



