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ternational Scientific Series" (D. Appleton & 

 Co.) deserves special reference: Prof. Whit- 

 ney's " The Life and Growth of Language : an 

 Outline of Linguistic Science; " and a transla- 

 tion prepared for the "Popular Science Libra- 

 ry. " of the same publishers : " The Natural His- 

 tory of Man ; a Course of Elementary Lectures," 

 by Prof. A. de Quatrefages, translated from the 

 French by Eliza A. Youmans. The translation 

 and publication by Mr. B. R. Tucker, of Prince- 

 ton, Mass., of Proudhon's " What is Property ? " 

 seem to imply an expectation of some popular 

 interest in the doctrines of French communism. 

 The issue of two additional volumes of Mr. Hu- 

 bert Howe Bancroft's "Native Races of the 

 Pacific States of North America " (D. Appleton 

 & Co.) carries forward toward completion a 

 very interesting contribution to ethnography. 

 The essays, posthumously published, of Mr. 

 Isaac Butts, on "Protection and Free Trade," 

 including " An Examination into the Nature of 

 Value, and the Agency of the Natural Forces 

 in producing it " (Putnams), deserve the atten- 

 tion of political economists. The following list 

 embraces some works more popular than scien- 

 tific, though upon scientific topics : 



A History of North American Birds. By Spencer 

 F. Baird, Thomas M. Brewer, and Eobert Eidgway. 

 The Land-Birds. Illustrated by 593 Woodcuts and 

 64 Plates of Life Size, illustrative of the Head of each 

 Species. In three vols. Vol. III. (Little, Brown 

 & Co., Boston.) 



Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1874. 

 Edited by Spencer F. Baird, with the Assistance of 

 Eminent Men of Science. (Harpers.) 



The Science-Record for 1875. A Compendium of 

 Scientific Progress and Discovery during the Past 

 Year. Edited by Alfred E. Beach. (Munn.) 



Astronomy. By J. Rambosson. Translated by 

 C. B. Pitman. With 63 Engravings, 3 Maps of the 

 Celestial Bodies, and 10 Colored Plates. (D. Apple- 

 ton & Co.) 



What is Music? By Isaac L. Rice. (D. Appleton 

 & Co.) 



The Population of an Apple-Tree. By A. S. 

 Packard, Jr. (Estes & Lauriat, Boston.) 



A Catalogue of Plants growing without Cultivation 

 within Thirty Miles of Amherst College. By Ed- 

 ward Tuckerman, M. A., and Charles C. Frost, M. A. 

 (Nelson, Amherst,) 



Ancient Faiths and Modern. A Dissertation upon 

 Worships, Legends, and Divinities in Western Asia, 

 Europe, and elsewhere, before the Christian Era. 

 By Thomas Inman, M. D. (Bouton.) 



On the General Integrals of Planetary Motion. 

 By Simon Newcomb. (Smithsonian Contributions.) 



A New Treatise on the Elements of Mechanics, 

 establishing Strict Precision in the Meaning of Dy- 

 namical Terms, accompanied with an Appendix on 

 Duodenal Arithmetic and Metrology. By John W 

 Nystrom, C. E. (Porter & Co.. Philadelphia.) 



Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis. For the 

 Identification, Separation, and Quantitative Determi- 



Translated by Robert Amory, M. D. ( J. Campbell, 

 Boston.} 



Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors. A 

 Manual of the Constituents of the Distilled Spirits 

 and Fermented Liquors of Commerce, and their 

 Qualitative and Quantitative Determination. By 

 Albert B. Prescott, M. D. (Van Nostrand.) 



Reports and Papers presented at the Meetings of 

 the American Public Health Association in the Year 

 1875. ^Hurd & Houghton.) 



The Sexes through Nature. By Antoinette Brown 

 Blackwell. (Putnams.) 



Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus, 

 by a New Method, founded on the True System of 

 Sir Isaac Newton, without the Use of Infinitesimals 

 or Limits. By C. P. Buckingham, Professor in Ken- 

 yon College, O. (Griggs, Chicago.) 



Social Science and National Economy. By Robert 

 Ellis Thompson, Professor in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. (Porter & Co.) 



Projectiles and Rifled Cannon. Systems of Projec- 

 tiles and Rifling, with Practical Suggestions for then 

 Improvement, as embraced in a Report to the Chief 

 of Ordnance, U. S. A. By Captain John G. Butler, 

 Ordnance Corps, U. S. A. With an Appendix con- 

 taining the Report of the Board on Experimental 

 Rifled Guns on the Proof of an Eight-inch Converted 

 Rifle. Illustrated by 36 Lithographic Plates. (Vac 

 Nostrand.) 



Contributions to Barometric Hypsometry. Witb 

 Tables for Use in California. By J. D. Whitney, 

 State Geologist. (Little, Brown & Co., Boston.) 



The Geology of New Hampshire. A Report com- 

 prising the Results of Explorations ordered by the 

 Legislature. By C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist, 

 and J. H. Huntingdon, Principal Assistant. In Two 

 Parts. Part I. Physical Geography. (E. C. East- 

 man, Concord, N. H.) 



The Recent Origin of Man, as illustrated by Geol- 

 ogy and the Modern Science of Prehistoric Archae- 

 ology. By James C. Southall. 



Storms: their Nature, Classification, and Laws, 

 with the Means of predicting them by their Em- 

 bodiments, the Clouds. By William Blasius, former- 

 ly Professor of Natural Sciences in the Lyceum of 

 Hanover. (Porter & Coates.) 



Appendixes to Dana's Mineralogy, by George J. 

 Brush, Professor in the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 and Edward S. Dana, Curator of the Mineral Depart- 

 ment of the Peabody Museum. (J. Wiley.) 



Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source 

 of Measures originating the British Inch and the An- 

 cient Cubit, by which was built the Great Pyramid 

 of Egypt and the Temple of Solomon, and through 

 the Possession and Use of which, Man, assuming to 

 realize the Creative Law of the Deity, set it forth in 

 a Mystery among the Hebrews, called Kabbala. By 

 J. Ralston Skinner. (Clarke, Cincinnati.) 



The Birds and Seasons of New England. By Wil- 

 son Flagg, author of " Woods and By-Ways of New 

 England." With Heliotype Illustrations. (Osgood.) 

 Geological Survey of Missouri. By Ralph Pum- 

 pelly, G. C. Brodhead. F. B. Meek, and B. F. Shu- 

 mard. Three vols. and two atlases. (Van Nostrand.) 

 The Primer of Political Economy. By Alfred B. 

 Mason and John J. Lalor. ( Jansen, McClurg & Co., 

 Chicago.) 



Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis. By Dr. 

 C. Remegius Fresenius. Translated into the New 



nation of the more commonly-occurring Organic Com- System, and newly edited by Prof. S. W. Johnson, 

 pounds. By Albert B. Prescott, M. D., Professor of (Wiley.) 

 Organic and At>t)lied Chemist,rv in t.hp. TTnivprsit.v n-P 



)rganic and Applied Chemistry in the University of 

 Michigan, (Van Nostrand.) 



Manual of Determinative Mineralogy, with an In- 

 troduction on Blowpipe Analysis. By George J. 

 Brush, Professor of Mineralogy in the Sheffield Sci- 

 entific School [Yale College]. (Wiley.) 



A Course of Lectures on Physiology, as delivered 

 by Prof. Kuss at the Medical School of the Univer- 

 sity of Strasburg. Edited by Matthias Duval, M. D. 



. Histology and Histo-Chemistry of Man. By Hem- 

 rich Frey. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Text-Book of Physiology. By Austin Flint, Jr. 

 (D. Appleton & Co.) 



KELIGION AND THEOLOGY. A few works 

 worthy of particular consideration, as bearing 

 upon theological science, or giving promise, in 

 their range of thought or by their grace of 



