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lished statistics ; and from these the growth of religious life and missionary enter- 

 prise may be studied to advantage. 



In the articles " Archeology," " Astronomy," " Chemistry," " Metallurgy," and 

 " Physiology " these sciences are recorded in their latest developments ; but perhaps 

 the most wonderful result of science this year is to be found under the head of 

 " Medicine," where the experiments proving that malaria and yellow fever are com- 

 municated to human beings through mosquitoes are fully set forth. 



Among the special articles are one on the comparatively new industry of " Auto- 

 mobiles," illustrated, with their latest developments ; one on artistic " Bookbinding," 

 also illustrated ; one on the new enterprise of " Rural Free Mail Delivery " ; and one 

 on the recent events in " Yachting." 



The death roll of the year is unusually long, and contains many names familiar to 

 our readers. Among the authors we have lost are William E. Channing, Joseph 

 Cook, Ignatius Donnelly, John Fiske, Edward H. House, John G. Mcolay, Charles 

 Nordhoff, Mary A. Townsend, Walter Besant, Robert Buchanan, Mandell Creighton,, 

 Felix Gras, Hugh R. Haweis, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Cosmo Monkhouse, Frederic 

 W. H. Myers, Paul Silvestre, and Charlotte M. Yonge ; among the actors, Louis, 

 Aldrich, James A. Herne, Fanny Morant, Roland Reed, James B. Roberts, Edmond 

 Got, James H. Mapleson, Harry Monkhouse, and Osmond Tearle ; among the artists, 

 Jane H. Hammond, James M. Hart, Adolf R. Kraus, Edward Moran, Julian Scott,. 

 James E. Taylor, Edward Ford, and Kate Greenaway ; among the clergymen, Maltbie 

 D. Babcock, Frederic Denison, John Jacob Esher, Justin D. Fulton, John Jasper, 

 Thomas N". Lenihan, Abram IN". Littlejohn, William McDonald, and Henry B. 

 Whipple ; among the educators, Herbert B. Adams, John Thomas Duffield, Robert 

 Graham, Richmond Mayo- Smith, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Truman H. Safford ? and 

 Joseph Henry Thayer ; among the explorers, Edouard Foa and Adolf Nordenskiold ; 

 among the inventors, William F. Coston, Elisha Gray, David S. Holman, Thaddeus 

 Hyatt, George Kellogg, and Lorenzo W. Kimball ; among the legislators, Charles A. 

 Boutelle, James W. Bradbury, James A. Kyle, Cornelius R. Parsons, Hiram R. 

 Revels, and William J. Sewell ; among the philanthropists, Elizabeth D. Gillespie^ 

 Margaret E. Crocker, Mrs. Egbert Guernsey, Tom Mosby, Henry Y. A. Parsell, 

 William A. Passavant, and Elizabeth Hanbury ; among the publishers, G. W. Carle- 

 ton, Patrick Donahoe, Alexander C. McClurg, and Lewis A. Roberts ; among the 

 scientists, Clarence King, Joseph Le Conte, Henry A. Rowland, Charles A. Schott> 

 William J. Youmans, George M. Dawson, Rudolf Koenig, and Eleanor Ormerod ; 

 among the statesmen, William M. Evarts, Benjamin Harrison, the Duke de Broglie,. 

 Francesco Crispi, Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, Marthinas Pretorius, and Li- 

 Hung-Chang ; among the soldiers, Daniel Butterfield, George W. Getty, John P. 

 Hatch, James S. Negley, Robert Nugent, Fitz John Porter, Benjamin M. Prentiss, 

 and Joseph Gurko ; among the naval officers, Francis M. Bunce, John Irwin, Richard 

 P. Leary, Thomas S. Phelps, and Francis A. Roe ; among the composers and 

 dramatists, Edmond Audran, Paul Barbier, Pierre Benoit, and Giuseppe Yerdi. 



The celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of Yale University is recorded, 

 with a full-page portrait of the new president of that institution, Arthur Twining 

 Hadley. There is' also a full-page portrait of Li-Hung-Chang, the famous Chinese 

 statesman, and full-page illustrations of the Pan- American Exposition, the New York 

 subway, and the yacht races. The volume closes with a complete index. 



NEW YORK, February 11, 1902. 



