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Students' Surgery." The eleventh volume of 

 the "Index Catalogue of the Library of the 

 Surgeon-General's Office " was brought out, and 

 Dr. J. S. Billings, U. S. A., and others pub- 

 lished " The National Medical Dictionary," in 

 two volumes. Vols. I and II of an " Illustrated 

 Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary " by Frank P. 

 Foster, in four volumes, also appeared. Still 

 another " New Medical Dictionary " was the 

 work of George M. Gould. In the " Series of 

 Clinical Manuals " " The Pulse " was by W. H. 

 Broadbent, and " Food in Health and Disease " 

 by I. B. Yeo. " Wood's Medical and Surgical 

 Monographs" were continued, and "An Epit- 

 ome of ' Tripler's Manual ' and other Publica- 

 tions on the Examination of Recruits " was made 

 for the guidance of recruiting officers of the 

 United States army by Charles R. Greenleaf. 

 " Post-Mortems," by A. H. Newth, was edited 

 with notes and additions by F. W. Owen. 

 "Hygiene of Childhood," by Francis H. Rankin, 

 and "Dust and its Dangers," by T. Mitchell 

 Prudden, were timely volumes ; as were also 

 " Highways and Byways to Health," by C. A. 

 Hoff, and "How to preserve Health," by L. 

 Barkan. W. M. Capp published " The Daughter, 

 her Health, Education, and Wedlock," while 

 " Practical and Scientific Physiognomy," by 

 Mary 0. Stanton, filled two volumes. A. M. 

 Bell" had also " A Popular Manual . of Vocal 

 Physiology and Visible Speech." " A Text- 

 Book of Comparative Physiology," for students 

 and practitioners of veterinary medicine, was 

 furnished by Wesley Mills, and "Diseases of 

 Live Stock " were treated by W. B. E. Miller, 

 Willis P. Hazard, and others. The " Evolution 

 of Medical Science," in the " Modern Science 

 Essayist," was by R. G. Eccles. 



General Science. As in several years past, 

 no additions of striking value have been made to 

 science proper, while a few good books of a popu- 

 lar order are to be recorded. " The World En- 

 ergy and its Self-Conservation," by W. M. Bry- 

 ant, "Principles of Science," by W. W. Felts, 

 " Protoplasm and Life," two biological essays by 

 C. F. Cox in " Fact and Theory Papers," " Ex- 

 perimental Science," by George M. Hopkins, and 

 a " Laboratory Manual of Experimental Phys- 

 ics," by Albert L. Arey, are general in charac- 

 ter. From Prof. Charles A. Young we have 

 " The Elements of Astronomy," a text-book for 

 use in high schools and academies, with a uronog- 

 raphy ; and Lucien Young's " Simple Elements 

 of Navigation " may be mentioned in this con- 

 nection as akin in theme. " The Trees of North- 

 eastern America," by Charles S. Newhall, sup- 

 plies useful information in an attractive man- 

 ner, and Vol. 1 was also published of " The 

 Silva of North America," by Charles S. Sargent, 

 with figures and analyses drawn from nature by 

 Charles E. Faxon. " Elements of Structural and 

 Systematic Botany" were set forth by Douglas 

 H. Campbell, Mara L. Pratt described "The 

 Fairyland of Flowers," and a " Synopsis of the 

 Genus Arthonia" was made by H. Willey. H. 

 C. McCook, D. D., devoted three large volumes 

 to " American Spiders and their Spinning Work," 

 two of which were published during the year, 

 and Parts IX and X of the third series of 

 " Butterflies of North America," by W. H. Ed- 

 wards were issued. " North American Geology 



and Palaeontology" was by Samuel A. Miller, 

 and that author, with F. E. Gurley, wrote "A 

 Description of Some New Genera and Species of 

 Echinodermata." " On the Hills " was a series 

 of geological talks by Frederick Starr, and a 

 second revised and enlarged edition was made of 

 "An American Geological Railway Guide," 

 edited by James R. MacFarlane. " Characteris- 

 tics of Volcanoes " were traced by Prof. James 

 P. Dana, with contributions of facts and prin- 

 ciples from the Hawaiian Islands, and a new edi- 

 tion was made of his " Corals and Coral Islands." 

 " Gems and Precious Stones of America " filled 

 a volume by G. F. Kunz. " The Tornado," by 

 Prof. H. A. Hazen, of the United States Signal 

 Service, " The Ocean of Air," by Agnes Giberne, 

 and " The Physical Properties of Gases," by 

 Arthur L. Kimball, are excellent of their kind, 

 while " Heat, as a Form of Energy," was consid- 

 ered by Robert H. Thurston, who* published also 

 "A Handbook of Engine and Boiler Trials." 

 " The Cosmic Law of Thermal Repulsion " was 

 an anonymous essay suggested by the projection 

 of a comet's tail. The Lamborn prize essays, by 

 working entomologists, were published under the 

 title of " Dragon Flies vs. Mosquitoes," and Ella 

 Rodman Church described "Water Animals." 

 " Fur, Feathers, and Fuzz," was by James Steele, 

 and "The Taxidermist's Manual," by Graham 

 Allen. In mathematics, which were well repre- 

 sented, we have " An Elementary Treatise upon 

 the Method of Least Squares," by Prof. George 

 C. Comstock ; " The Directional Calculus," by 

 Prof. E. W. Hyde, based upon the methods of 

 Hermann Grassmann ; " Elements of the Differ- 

 ential and Integral Calculus," by Prof. Arthur 

 Sherburne Hardy ; Part II of "Numbers Uni- 

 versalized," by David M. Sensenig ; " An Intro- 

 duction to the Logic of Algebra," by Ellery W. 

 Davis ; " Lessons in Number," by Francis Cogs- 

 well ; " Elliptic Functions," by Arthur L. Baker ; 

 and "Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigo- 

 nometry," by Edwin S. Crawley. " The Princi- 

 ples of Psychology," by W. James, filled two 

 volumes, and H. S. Drayton, M. D., wrote upon 

 " Human Magnetism." " The Time Relations of 

 Mental Phenomena " were the theme of Prof. 

 Joseph Jastrow, and to applied science belong ; 

 "Electricity in Daily Life," by C. F. Brackett, 

 F. L. Pope, and others; "Experimental Elec- 

 tricity " and " How to make Electric Batteries at 

 Home," by E. Trevert ; " Electricity for Engi- 

 neers," by C. Desmond ; " Electric-Bell Construc- 

 tion," by F. C. Allsop ; " Electro-motors " and 

 " Electric Bells," by S. R. Bottone ; and " A Dic- 

 tionary of Electrical Words, Terms, and Phrases," 

 by E. J. Houston ; " A Text-book of Assaying," 

 by J. J. and S. C. Beringer. " The Metallurgy 

 of Steel," by H. M. Howe ; " Modern American 

 Methods of Copper Smelting," by E. D. Peters, 

 Jr. ; " The Lixiviation of Silver Ores," by C. A. 

 Stetefeldt; Vol. II of "Metallurgy of Silver, 

 Gold, and Mercury in the United States," by T. 

 Egleston ; " The Hydraulic Gold-Miner's Man- 

 ual," by T. S. G. "Kirkpatrick; "The Metal- 

 Worker's Handy Book of Receipts and Pro- 

 cesses," edited by W. T. Brannt ; a new edition 

 of Prescott's " Electric Telephone " ; and " Sugar 

 Analysis," by Ferdinand G. Wiechmann. H. E. 

 Haberkorn and Paul Heise's " Handy Lists of 

 Technical Literature " were continued in Parts 



