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Synopsis op the Fishes op North America. 

 By David S. Jordan and Charles H. 

 Gilbert. Washington : Government 

 Printing-office. Pp. 1,018. 



The " Synopsis " is published as Bulle- 

 tin No. 16 of the United States National 

 Museum. In it the authors have endeavored 

 to give concise descriptions of all the spe- 

 cies of fishes known to inhabit the waters 

 of North America, north of the boundary 

 between the United States and Mexico. The 

 classification adopted is essentially based 

 on the views of Professors Gill and Cope. 

 The rules of nomenclature generally recog- 

 nized by naturalists, and recently formulated 

 by Mr. W. H. Ball, have been followed, al- 

 most without deviation. Under the head of 

 each species enough synonomy has been 

 given to connect this work with other de- 

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 cipal references are to the original descrip- 

 tions of such species, to Dr. Giinther's 

 " British Museum Catalogue," and to other 

 works in which special information is given, 

 or some variant specific name is employed. 



Home Science, Yol. I, No. 1, May, 1884. 

 New York : Selden R. Hopkins. Pp. 112. 

 Price, $2.50 a year. 



A monthly magazine, the general scope 

 of which is indicated by the title. The pres- 

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 popular scientific, and hygienic articles by 

 popular authors, a " Health and Habit " de- 

 partment by Dio Lewis, and departments of 

 a " domestic " character. The magazine is 

 well printed, on good paper, and looks well. 



Report to the Secretary op the Navy on 

 Recent Improvements in Astronomi- 

 cal Instruments. By Simon Newcomb, 

 Washington: Government Printing-Of- 

 flce. Pp. 27. 



Professor Newcomb visited the princi- 

 pal observatories in Europe in 1883, for the 

 purpose of taking note of the improvements 

 in astronomical instruments which had been 

 adopted in them, and this report embodies 

 the results of his observations. Among the 

 objects he describes are the great Vienna 

 telescope and its mountings ; the great domes 

 at Paris and Vienna ; the great Russian tele- 

 scope at Pultowa, with the apparatus for 

 mounting it, now making at Hamburg ; re- 

 flecting telescopes in France, the equatorial 



coude (a contrivance by the aid of which 

 the eye-piece may always point to the north), 

 the Strasburg meridian circle, etc. The ob- 

 servations are supplemented by the author's 

 own practical conclusions. 



American Meteorological Journal, Vol. T, 

 No. 1, May, 1884. Professor M. W. 

 Harrington, Editor. Detroit, Michigan : 

 W. II. Burr & Co. Pp. 39. Price, $3 a 

 year. 



This journal is designed to be a monthly 

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 of study. It takes up the subject earnestly 

 and in a manner showing that the editor has 

 a proper comprehension of what such a pub- 

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United States Bureau of Statistics. Quarterly 

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Question-Book of Stimulants and Narcotics. By 

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Knickerbocker Eeady Reference Guide to l.f 00 

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On Induction in Telephone Lines, and Methods 

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South Side Views. By Rev. W. J. Scott. At- 

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Scientific and Poetical Works of the Last of the 

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A Judicial Revolution. By Rodmond Gibbons. 

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" Paleontolozical Bulletin," No. 88. By Pro- 

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Civil-Service Reform. By Elial F. Hall. Tem- 

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The Tertiary Marsupialia. By E. D. Cope. 

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Limits of Knowledge and Grounds of Belief. 

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Institutional Beginnings in a "Western State. 

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The Philosophv of Social Economy. By Stewart 

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Abnormal Human Skulls from Stone Graves in 

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Catalogue of the Albany Medical College, Albany, 

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A New Stand (Chick's) for Skulls. By F. W. 

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