1896. SOME NEW BOOKS. 4*9 



23 pp. ; Bibliography of Russian Geology for 1895, 9^ PP- > News of 

 Expeditions, 13 pp. ; Personalia and Obituaries, 16 pp. ; News of 

 Russian Museums, no pages in this livraison ; Advertisements of 

 Sale or Exchange, 2 pp. To some extent this ground is covered by 

 Professor Nikitin's useful Biblwthique geologique russe, to which the 

 present work appears to be a rival, a fact to be regretted. It is 

 claimed that the abstracts will be much fuller than those in the 

 Bibliotheque ; but papers that have already been noticed in some 

 accessible publication, such as the Nenes Jahrbuch, are not again 

 abstracted. In the palseontological lists, the names of new species 

 are printed in broad-faced type, which seems to us a great improve- 

 ment on the method followed by the Zoological Record. 



Revista de la Facultad dc Agronomic, y Veterinaria (8vo, La Plata, 

 annual subscription, 6 pesos m/n) was started as a monthly at the 

 beginning of 1895. No. 7, which we have just received, contains a 

 report submitted by Drs. Bernier and Griffin to the High Council of 

 Hygiene for the province of Buenos Ayres, in which they recommend 

 certain regulations for checking the spread of contagious diseases 

 among domestic animals. The laws on the subject are more stringent 

 in other countries than in Buenos Ayres, and protection can only be 

 secured by the enforcement of sanitary laws. The report embraces 

 rules for the declaration of contagious disease and the penalties for 

 non-compliance, the manner and duration of the isolation of suspected 

 cases, the sacrifice and burial of infected animals, and a scale of com- 

 pensation for animals so destroyed. The article, although occupying 

 only a few pages, should not be missed by sanitarians. The number 

 also contains a paper on the disinfection of cattle-trucks, by 

 Dr. Bernier, and other interesting matter. 



The Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, 111., has 

 started a magazine devoted to the interests of graduate and non- 

 resident students, entitled The Illinois Wesleyan Magazine. We mention 

 it here since it seems possible that occasional articles of interest to 

 our readers may be found in it. Part ii. contains a short note on the 

 home study of geology, by R. O. Graham, and a doctorial thesis on 

 the problem of latitude, by O. J. Bond. 



We record, though they contain little of scientific interest : Bolctm 

 del Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinos, 4-to, about one sheet to each part, 

 published at Gunao 12 (Quiapoj Manila ; and Travel, a monthly, of 

 which the first number was issued on May 1, 1896, by Horace 

 Marshall & Son, 125 Fleet Street, London. It is an 8vo, of 58 pages, 

 sold for 3d. 



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