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in the University of Michigan, Louisa Reed Stowell," and this pre- 

 face is soon followed with over forty pages and as many figures from 

 Part II. of Mrs. Stowell's contributions to structural botany, in 

 Microscopical Diagnosis. 



The Childhood of Religions. By Edward Clodd. Price 15 cents. No. 47 

 of the "Library of Science." J. Fitzgerald, Publisher, 20 Lafayette Place, 

 New York. 



The author treats of the origin and development of religious 

 ideas among the principal civilized nations of ancient times, as de- 

 veloped by the researches of men of science. The work exhibits 

 the perfection of literary style combined with profound scholarship. 



Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society for 1883, held 

 at Kalamazoo, Mich., May gth and ioth. 



Rhode-Island Twenty-ninth Registration Report. 



Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and In- 

 dustries of New Jersey, 1882. 



Over sixty pages are devoted to an illustrated article by Rev. S. 

 Lockwood, Ph. D., on "The Oyster Interests of New Jersey." It 

 brings the whole knowledge we possess about this valuable animal 

 down to the present time, and it makes very entertaining reading for 

 any one. 



A Delicate Test for Blood. By Malcolm Leal, M. D. Reprint from the 



Homoeopathic Leader, July, 1883. 



Deserved Appointment. — We are glad to see that Dr. Lewis 

 M. Eastman, of Baltimore, Md., has been appointed " Professor of 

 Microscopy" in the Baltimore Medical College. No better appoint- 

 ment could possibly have been made. Dr. Eastman has long been 

 recognized, by microscopists all over our land, as a very skillful 

 manipulator of the tube, an excellent histologist and an expert in 

 the preparation of microscopic objects. The college has done well 

 in securing his services in lecturing upon these departments, in 

 which he is so well versed. — Bistoury. 



