460 



I.ITFimTUE. AMERICAN, IN 1897. 



lithological terms: and Albert 1luntii.-i.in Theater 

 italoffiie of Mim-raN alphabetically 



M..iint Mica ami its 



red ToannaUtMS* was written by 

 Aucu ite Hamlin: "The Missouri B 



traost Source." by J. V. \vas a 



curtailed narrmlion of geologic. primitiv. 



<>;..,;: ... .... ; .. r the < rotation 



ami discovery of the river (in.l it- head waters: an<l 



a second. rerised edition wa i^.,,,l ,.f Gates P. 



Thurt<ir* w,.rk in* .11 "The Antiquities ; Ten- 



nessee and the Adj A Midi had n.-w 



chapter? ami illustration*. " Th the 



Karth' At m. .sphere " wa* written f-r the " Library 



-fill Storm "I" Archibald. H. rb.-rt 



A. II - u.iy of the Skv " ..f la-; 



with "hi Descriptive Astronomy." 



nnd we owe it " Star At la> " to Win-low Upton. 



IX and X f Charles Sprague Sargent's work 



ujN.n - \a of North America" appeared; 



-Familiar Features of the Roadside," by F.-r.linaml 



lor Mathews, described the flowers, shrub-. 



.and insects soencount .-red. and contained 160 



drawings by tho author, as well as many of t In- songs 



ts; Carolim- A. 



wet-- of Field. Hill, and Swamp" 

 were illustrated by Benjamin Lander; William 

 Whitman Bailey wrote on " \ md Wild 



Flowers* and their Seasons": and Vol. II was nub- 

 : of "An Illustrated Flora of the Northern 

 I'liiled States. Canada. and the British Possessions," 

 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Addismi Brown. 

 Covering " Portulaca to Gentian." Charles Mead- 

 roan Xewhall illustrated fully "The Vine- of North- 

 eastern Aim-ri-a" fnun original sketches. Frank 

 :.i|.iled and edited "The Plant World : 

 : >tnances and Realities "as a reading book of 

 botany; Sadie F. Price prepared "The Fern c.l- 

 mdbook and Herbariuni," as an aid in 



the study and preservation of the ferns of Northern 



i hiding tin- district east of the Mi<- 



nmippi and n-Tth of North Carolina and Tennessee; 



C'harles Reid Barnes's " Analytic Keys to the 0- 



and Species of North Ame'rican Mosses." r--\i-e,l 



and extendefl by Frederic De Forest Heald. ap- 



peared in the " Bulletins of tin- Timer-it y of Wi- 



id fnun Margaret Warner 



Morley we had elementary lesson- on " Flower- and 

 their .-liar Fl-v. 



"Chapters on the Natural Hi<torvof the t'nited 

 States'* were written by It. W. Shufeldt. M. h. : 

 John 8 y was the author of " Ml-- 



of Com|arative Zamogji* w ih* an " Klemeiitary 

 Zoology and Laboratory Guide " was the work of 

 H.-nry K. Chapin. Masted >v Louis J. 



XVI ,,f Vol. 'II of H. Neh, 

 ii Ani'-riean Bird- " a[>|M-ared, also a s<- 

 revised edition ..f R.,!MTI Ri Igway's "Manual of 

 North American BinU." H. K. "Parkhurst. the 

 author of the ** Bini' Calendar," gave 



rfowl"; Darn. -I (Jiraud Klliot 

 roted a sumptuous volume to M The Gallinaceous 

 North Ameri'-a." ineluding the par- 

 tridgv*.grna*e,ptarmigan,andwild turkevs: Charles 



How to know the Shore I 



(LiffliooUe) of North Amori.-a <S.,uth ..f (ire.-nland 

 and Alaska ." all the species being grouped a< 



lor. and "II..wt., know the Ducks, 

 Geese, and Swan*." Tho Story of the Bird-*" was 

 written by James Newton Ba*'; 



dl.y Hon. W. T. II 



other issuesofwhieh were**Curiocu Homc and their 

 Tenants," by James Carter Beard, and "The 1 



l.y Mr-. A. 8. Hardy. .I,,|,n Burrou-h^ 

 1 an introduction t. - Bird Nei^M 

 lanehan. which BUbkee us acquainted with 

 150 birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, 



and woods about our homes; "Upon ill-- 

 Tops." by Olive Th..rn Miller (Mr*. Harriet Mann 

 Mill. ted 1>\ J. 



1 g I Wriuhl. went thn 



ne w cheaper edition : -Bird Life." l.y 1-nr 

 Chapman, was intended as a guide to the -tii.lv of 

 otir common liird-; it contained ?."> full j 

 and numenni- i >eton 



Tlmmps4iii. and ap|N-ared a No in an edition in 

 riilor- ' cn Bird " was the title given to scenes 

 from liird life in plain l-'.ni:li-li lor Ite^inn. ' 

 Mai. 



i \\rote at length on " Curio-it j,-- ,,f I'.ird 

 Life"; and ainoni: the many delightful volumes 

 which bring us mar ! Nainr. an<i h'-r m\ 



: 111 of t he 



Fiel,: Conrad AliU.tt. whose 



,\el- in a Tree Top" went thniugh a n< u i-di- 

 ti..n. the two forming " Ablioi: 



- M\ Studio Neighbors" an. I 

 Sp\." l.y William Hamilton (nl.-o,,. l.oth illir' 

 by" the author: Ki : " \\ iM \ 



hors '. M'llingham I'ierson's " Amon_ 



Meadow People"; William Sl.ane Kennedv' 



.ara Kern 



and Bayou: or. Life in the Still Wai 

 Clarence Moo res Weed's ' Life" 



and "Life Hi-tori.- ..f American "In- 



Life." by .John Henry ( oinsi.ick. \\a- int. 

 as an Introduction to Nature -tu.ly and .. 

 teachers, students, and others interested in out-of- 

 door life, and I'M ward Kiiobel wrote of " Mo-.juit<ie-, 

 (inats. ( 'r.uie Flie-, Mid^e-. and I-'liesof the Nort hern 

 for tl ! " Illu-trated (iuide- in 



Natural Hi-tory." Par! XVII c.-mpleted the third 

 ..f W. II. L'dwards'- work mi "The Butterllies 

 of North America." Samuel Hubbard Scuddcr 

 prepared a " (iiiide to the (ien.-ra and Clailic-ation 

 of the North American Orthoptera found North <.f 

 Mexico." - Matka and Kotik : A Tale of the Mi>i 

 I-lan.ls." by Dr. David Starr .Jordan, made an elo- 



?uent plea f>r the fur seal : "The Story of (ierm 

 jife" wa-writteii by Herbert \\'. Conn for " Apple- 

 ton-' Library of Useful Stor:. I 11 : Harriet Kan.lo||,h 

 offered Laboratory Directions in General Biol 



and Robert Payne Bi^dow prepared a " Syllal 

 .res in Theoretical Biology" for the i, 

 students in the Ma adm-cits Institute ..f Tech- 

 nology. " Life and Immortality: or. Soul in p 

 and AniinaN" 1 -'-d by Thoma- ( i. ( i.-nt ry, 



and "The Place of Death in Evolution, 

 Newman Smyth. The " Heliu'i-'M* "f Pritnitivc 

 Peoples" were the theme of Dr. Daniel (iani-.n 

 Brinton in th> "American Lectm. 



the History of Religion-." and <'lifT.rd Howard 

 made a -tndv of "Sex Wor-hii. " in the same con- 

 nection. "Totem Tal.-: Indian St..rie- Indian 

 toM " gathered in the i;reat Northwest were com- 

 piled DJ \N . S. Phillips and Wa-hin-toii Mat- 

 thews. M. I'..- -llected and translated " Naval: 

 gen.!-." accompanying them with an introduction. 

 . illu-trai. . interlinear translation-. 



and melodic-. : rs OI 



Nature," by Ignatius Singer and L.-\\i- II. I',, 

 made an inquiry into the causes of phy-i.-.-d phe- 

 nomena with Special reference to gra vi't at ion. and 

 " Modes of Motion " were considered by 

 Kmerson pnlhfar. who aNo published M First Prin- 

 ciples of Natural Philosophy." "The Argentaiirium 

 Pafer-. NO. 1." Jiy Stephen H. Lmmen-. contained 

 remarks concerning gravitation addn---d to 

 MI Institution, the Academic d.- 

 -. the Royal Soej-ty. and all other learned 



Telepathy and 'tli; Subliminal." i 

 d Ma-on, wa- an account of recent inve 

 regarding hypnotism, dreams, phantasm-, and 

 related phenomena, an explanation of which is 



