i68 American Quarterly Microscopical Journal. 



tive examples of subjects but little discussed in text-books, some of the latter 

 embodying the results of the author's own observations in South America, the 

 Yellowstone Park, British America, and elsewhere. The parts devoted to 

 Physiography and Archaeology are quite fully outlined, and the various theories 

 of subterranean agencies, mountain elevation, etc., are concisely presented A 

 classification of plants and animals, with brief descriptions of groups of geologi- 

 cal importance, occupies six closely printed pages, and must prove very useful as 

 a reference table. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Popular Science Monthly. October-January, 1879. Journal of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society. November. Proceedings of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. Vol. XIX., parts I., II., III., IV., and Memoir 

 on Distomum crassicolle. Smithsonian Report. 1877. Grevillea. Septem- 

 ber, December. The North American Review. November, December. 

 National Quarterly Review. October. New York Medical Journal. 

 November and December. Van Nostrand's Magazine. November, December. 

 Medical Record. October, December. New Preparations. July. Cata- 

 logue of the Published Works of Isaac Lee, LL.D. Pamphlet, pp. 22. 

 Philadelphia. Further Notes on "Inclusions" in Gems, Etc. By Isaac Lee, 

 LL. D., Philadelphia. Pamphlet, pp. 11, with plate. Collins, Printer, 1876. Pro- 

 ceedings of the Medical Society of the County of Kings. October, 

 November, December. New York Eclectic Medical and Surgical Jour- 

 nal. November, December. Library Table. November-December. Val- 

 ley Naturalist. September, October, November. Kansas City Review 

 of Science and Industry. October-December. Bulletin of the Torrey 

 Botanic.-^l Club. Vol. VI., Nos. 37-47. American M.\chinist. Science 

 News. November-December. Canadian Journal of Medical Science. No- 

 vember. Cincinnati Medical News. October-December. American Jour- 

 nal OF Microscopy. October, November. Science Observer. October. 

 American Medical Journal. November. Brebissonia. August. Proceed- 

 ings OF THE Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. April, Sep- 

 tember. The Hospital G.azette. A History of the Diagnosis, Pathology 

 andTreatment of Yellow Fever. By J. B. Marvin, M. D., Pamphlet, pp. 15. 

 From the American Praciioiier. Zeitschrift fuer Mikroskopie. Numbers 

 I to 10. An Outline of General Geology. By Theo. B. Comstock, B. Ae-, 

 B. S. Ithaca, N. Y. , University Press, 1878. Legends, Customs and Social 

 Life of the Seneca Indians of Wfstern New York. By John Wentworth 

 Sanborn. Pamphlet, pp. 76. " Enterprise " print, Gowanda, N. Y. Journal 

 de Micrographie. November, 1878. The American Bookseller. Christ- 

 mas Number, pp. 175. December 2, 1878. The Medical Journal Adver- 

 tising Bureau Gazeteer. Vol. I., No. I. BotaniskaNotiser, No. 5, 1878. 

 On the Spore-Formation of the MesocarpEjE and Especially of the New 

 Genus Gonatonema. V. B. Wittrock. Pamphlet, pp. 18, with plate. Pro- 

 dromus Monographive Oedogoniarum. V. B. Wittrock. Pamphlet, pp. 64. 

 with plate. The Sanatarian. January, 1S79. The Dental Register. 

 November. New Remedies. December. Tr ans.a.ctions of the Connecti- 

 cut Academy of Sciences. Vol. IV , part i. 



