LITER ART NOTICES. 



56. 



House-Drainage. By William Paul Ger- 

 hard. New York : Durham House-Drain- 

 age Company. Pp. 44. Sanitary Drain- 

 age OF Tenement- lIousEs. By Will- 

 iam Paul Gerhard. Hartford, Conn. : 

 Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. 

 Pp. 40. 



In the former work, the essential feat- 

 ures of any thorough system of house-drain- 

 age are laid down to be : Extension of all 

 soil and waste pipes through and above the 

 roof ; provision of a fresh-air inlet in the 

 drain at the foot of the soil and waste pipe 

 systems ; the trapping of the main drain out- 

 side of the fresh-air inlet, to exclude the 

 sewer-gases from the house; provision of 

 each fixture, as near as possible to it, with a 

 suitable trap ; and provision of vent-pipes 

 to such traps under fixtures as are liable to 

 be emptied by siphonage. In the second 

 pamphlet, the principles of thorough sani- 

 tary drainage are applied to the tenement- 

 houses of working-men. 



Annual Report of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for 1883. 

 S. W. Johnson, Director. New Haven: 

 Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. Pp. 120. 



The Board of Control of this institution 

 report that the people of the State use the 

 station more and more each year, and that 

 the problem becomes more difficult how best 

 to do the varied work asked for. To pro- 

 vide additional force. Dr. E. H. Jenkins has 

 been appointed vice-director. Two hundred 

 and nineteen analyses of fertilizers have 

 been performed, fifteen of milk, three of 

 butter, with negative results as to adultera- 

 tions, and twenty of fodders. In connec- 

 tion with the last is given a table showing 

 the average composition of American fod- 

 ders and feeding-stuffs, compiled from all 

 analyses that could be secured up to the 

 1st of September last. The chief seed-ex- 

 aminations were on onion-seed. 



The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana, 

 AND Kentucky. By Professor G. Fred- 

 erick Wright. Cleveland, Ohio : West- 

 em Reserve Historical Society. Pp. 86. 



The author began, ten years ago, in- 

 Testigations concerning the kames of the 

 Merrimac Valley in Eastern Massachusetts. 

 Continuing along the line, he has now traced 

 the boundary of the glaciated area from the 

 Atlantic Ocean to the southern part of Illi- 

 tol. XXV. — 36 



nois. In the present pamphlet, the bound- 

 ary is described in detail through the sev- 

 eral counties and townships of Ohio, with 

 local maps, and as to its general features 

 through Kentucky — so far as it reaches that 

 State — and Indiana. 



Real and Imaginary Effects of Intemper- 

 ance. By G. Thomann. New York: 

 The United States Brewers' Association. 

 Pp. 167. 



The brewers have at last entered upon 

 an active defense of their calling, against 

 the assaults of the prohibitionists and the 

 temperance orators, and in this pamphlet 

 present their case and an appeal to facts 

 and statistics. They claim that the argu- 

 ments that have been hurled against fer- 

 mented liquors are largely the offspring of 

 the imagination, and do not rest on any solid 

 foundation, or on what can be proved ; and 

 they publish counter statements and statis- 

 tics favoring their own side. Leaving dis- 

 tilled liquors to take care of themselves, if 

 they can, they contend that the beverages 

 in which they are interested are wholesome, 

 and are not instigators of crime, and that 

 the use of them serves as a foil and a check 

 to indulgence in stronger liquors ; therefore 

 it ought not to be discouraged. 



Mineralogy. By J. H. Collins, F. G. S. 

 Systematic and Descriptive Mineralogy. 

 New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. Vol. 

 U, pp. 329. Price, $1.25. 



The present volume of Mr. Collins's 

 " Mineralogy " is intended to accompany and 

 supplement the first volume, which was pub- 

 lished in 1878 ; and, like that, was written 

 for the use of " practical working miners, 

 quarrymen, and field geologists," as well as 

 of students. The accounts are very brief, 

 but they are clear, and illustrated with dis- 

 tinct drawings of the crystals, and include 

 notices of all the minerals that had been de- 

 scribed up to the time of the author's leav- 

 ing England for Rio Tinto, Spain, in 1881. 



Report of the New York State Survey fob 

 1883. James T. Gardiner, Director. Al- 

 bany : Van Benthuysen Printing-House. 

 Pp. 182, with Six Maps. 



The work of the survey was continued 

 through last year in accordance with the 

 matured plan on which it has all the time 



