LITERARY NOTICES. 



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lating the vitality and nutrition of nerves 

 of skin covered by them, the exaltation of 

 which is reflected to the deeper parts, and 

 to the abscess whose maturity it is desired 

 to hasten. The ordinary remedies for the 

 relief of inflammation, and medicines which 

 can not directly reach the part it is desired 

 to affect, operate by reflex action. Restora- 

 tion of the tone of the stomach may be pro- 

 moted by the taste, sight, or smell, of pleas- 

 ant food, and expectoration is stimulated 

 by the swallowing of remedies that can not 

 be expected to reach the mucous membrane 

 of the respiratory passages, simply by the 

 operation of the principle under considera- 

 tion. 



Report on the Cotton Production of the 

 State of Florida : With an Account of 

 the General Agricultural Features of the 

 State. By Eugene Allen Smith, Ph. D. 

 Tuscaloosa, Ala. Pp. 77. 



As bearing upon the subject of the re- 

 port. Professor Smith gives in this paper, 

 besides matters immediately relating to cot- 

 ton, an outline of the physical geography 

 and geology of the State, embodying a re- 

 view of what has already been hitherto done 

 in this field, together with a synopsis of the 

 results obtained by himself during the sum- 

 mer of 1880. The geological structure of 

 Florida has been very much misunderstood, 

 and the author's observations, presenting 

 the matter in a correct view, are a positive 

 addition to knowledge. 



Sixteenth and Seventeenth Annual Re- 

 ports OF THE PeABODY MuSEUM OF AmER- 



iCAN Archaeology and Ethnology. F. 

 W. Putnam, Curator. Cambridge, Mass. 

 Pp. 132. 



The out-door work of the Curator of the 

 Museum in 1882 was directed chiefly to the 

 exploration and examination of the prehis- 

 toric works of various kinds on the Little 

 Miami River, principally in Hamilton County, 

 Ohio. The curator also examined some shell- 

 heaps on the coast of Maine, and explored 

 a large mound and a cemetery in William- 

 son County, Tennessee. Valuable contribu- 

 tions to the work of the museum were made 

 by Dr. C. C. Abbott, in the gravels of Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey, and by Miss Alice C. 

 Fletcher, the fruits of her residence among 

 the Indian tribes. In 1883 the explorations 



on the Little Miami were continued ; excur- 

 sions were made by the curator to the works 

 in Wisconsin and in the Scioto Valley, Ohio ; 

 and reports and collections were received of 

 investigations in North Carolina, New Jer- 

 sey, Delaware, the Zufiis of New Mexico, 

 Massachusetts, Little Falls (Minnesota), and 

 Nicaragua. Miss Fletcher was enabled to 

 trace a relation between some pecuUar feat- 

 ures of the Madisonville works in Ohio and 

 past customs of the Omaha Indians. The 

 museum was enriched by the gift, from 

 Thomas G. and Captain Nathan Appleton, 

 of a collection from the Chiriqui graves, 

 Panama. The report gives several papers 

 in full on Indian customs, etc., by Miss 

 Fletcher and other writers, and lists of ad- 

 ditions to the collections, which now em- 

 brace 33,150 entries. 



Arch^ological Institute op America. 

 Fifth Annual Report of the Executive 

 Committee, and Third Report of the 

 American School of Classical Studies at 

 Athens. Cambridge, Mass.: John Wil- 

 son & Sons. Pp. 118. 



The report records the continuation and 

 completion, for the present, of the excava- 

 tions at Assos, in Asia Minor, the relics 

 of which are " now one of the most inter- 

 esting revelations of classical antiquity," 

 and the very interesting explorations of Mr. 

 Baudelier in the antiquities of New Mexico. 

 A few remarks are offered respecting the 

 value of the excavations at Assos, and of 

 Greek civilization generally, to modern life. 

 Fifteen colleges have co-operated in the 

 maintenance of the classical school at Athens, 

 which was under the direction, for the year, 

 of Professor Lewis R. Packard, and is to be 

 led for the coming year by Professor J. 0. 

 Van Benschoten, of Wesleyan University. 



The Theories of Darwin and their Rela- 

 tion to Philosophy, Religion, and Mo- 

 rality. By Rudolf Schmid. Trans- 

 lated from the German by G. A. Zimmer- 

 man, Ph. D., with an Introduction by the 

 Duke of Argyll. Chicago : Jansen, Mc- 

 Clurg & Co. Pp. 410. Price, $2. 



The author of this book is President 

 of the Theological Seminary at Schonthal, 

 Wiirtemberg. His purpose is to examine 

 the various German versions and extensions 

 of Darwinianism, and, comparing them with 

 the views of the English Darwinian school, 



