388 NATURAL SCIENCE. Nov.. 1894. 



c limate. Only in the wind-protected, saturated atmosphere of the 

 forest are most of the species at home. A paper by Mr. Llewellyn 

 Jones, entitled " A Few Popular Facts About Diffusion," will interest 

 sugar growers ; as will also " Some Enemies of our Canefields," and 

 " Cost of Sugar Production in British Guiana." 



The annual report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which is 

 very nicely got up, and is illustrated with 41 plates, contains reports 

 for the past year, anniversary publications, and scientific papers. The 

 anniversary publications are the fourth annual flower sermon, to 

 defray which there is a bequest of $200, and the proceedings at the 

 fourth annual banquet of the trustees ($969-55). Would not an 

 abstract of the sermon have expressed all that was necessary? Of the 

 scientific papers several have been issued in advance as " reprints," 

 namely, " A Studyof the Venation of the Species of Salix" (Glatfelter); 

 " Bibliography of the Tannoids " (Bay) ; " Sugar Maples and Maples 

 in Winter " (Trelease) ; " North American Species of GayophyUim 

 and Boisdiivalia" (Trelease). The others include Phenological Notes 

 for 1892 and 1893, ^^^ a note on the emergence of Pvonuba from the 

 Yucca Capsules, by J. C. Whitten, and a list of plants collected in 

 South-eastern Missouri. Among the plates, which are a marked 

 feature of the book, are several very nice views in the gardens. 



We have received a useful little pamphlet of twenty-four pages 

 entitled " Brief Notes on the Physical and Chemical Properties of 

 Soils," by R. Warington, F.R.S. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. 

 Price IS.). The subject is so slightly treated in most English text- 

 books that it is intended to supply a temporary want, enabling 

 teachers of classes in agriculture to treat the properties of soils more 

 exhaustively than usual. 



We have received nos. i — 4 of Nedevlandsch Kolon'iaal Centraalhlad, 

 a publication devoted to the scientific literature of the Netherland 

 Indies. Dr. Boerlage edits Botany ; Dr. Max Weber, Zoology ; 

 Dr. Wichmann, Geology ; F. Blumentritt, the Philippines ; Dr. Van 

 den Burg, Medicine ; H. F. C. ten Kate, Anthropology ; while 

 C. M. Pleyte Wzn is the general editor. The publication, if kept up- 

 to-date, cannot fail to be of the highest importance to dwellers in 

 Malaya. The journal is published by Brill, of Leiden, and costs 

 2 fl. 50 per annum. 



We have also received " Rainmaking and Sunshine," by John 

 Collinson (London : Swan Sonnenschein, 1894. Price 3s. 6d.). 

 The work scarcely falls within the domain of Natural Science, and 

 we are impressed with the appropriateness of the author's motto : — 

 " Man's knowledge is as a rivulet ; his ignorance as the sea." 



Messrs. Dulau & Co. have issued part xxxv. of their useful Catalogue 

 of Zoological and Palgeontological Works. More than fifty pages 

 are occupied with a list of works relating to Anthropology and 

 Ethnography. 



