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meiit was often iliie to the presence of bacteria aiul that the inove- 

 lucnl ceasetl when the sliiles were sterilized. Prof Bessey ex- 

 hibited a new Reichert stand and objectives which interested tlie 

 members verv inucli. Mr. Saumieis exiiibited specimens of 

 Jstin\i tilatncntosa. 



March .vV. — Three new members elected. Mr. Dales spoke 

 further as to Brow nian movement anil exhibited aiiditional slides 

 illiistiatin«|[ his views. Mr. Wooils exhibited a B. and L. stand 

 and accessories. Mr. Kenyon showed a Zeiss staiui and objectives. 

 Prof. Bessev made remarks on the stands. Prof. Brimer ex- 

 hibited a projectinjj ajiparatiis by Leitz. Mr. Hartley gave an 

 ab.stract of Haljjini's work in inoculatinj; with cholera. Mr. 

 Kenvon showed a section of the eye of an embryo grasshopper. 



NKW rriJLK ATKINS. 



Domestic Science. By James E. Talmage, Pii. I).. Salt Lake 

 City, I'tah. Pp. 3S9, 100 cuts. 



We have lieen very much gratified to receive a second edition 

 of this book and to find the improvements which we suggested 

 in the first eilition to have been made. We have now nothing 

 but praise to utter regarding Doctor Talmage's work. He has 

 the happv faculty, possessed, or at least exercised, by but few 

 scientists, of being able to interest unscientific people in scientific 

 truths. There reallv ought not to be that gulf between scientists 

 and common people which technical utterances tend to perpetu- 

 ate. Could we have a tew hundred books like this there would 

 be hope of eventually obliterating the distinction between science 

 and common sense which now exists. And could the rural peo- 

 ple, as well as the lower classes of urban people, learn the sim- 

 plest teachings of science regarding domestic aH'airs, health, sleep, 

 drink, food, etc., one great step would have been taken towards 

 an imjjroveti social C(^ndition. Science is able, if it will, to teach 

 enough regarding life to largely destroy the unhappiness and pov- 

 ertv of the world. The author of this book is a missionary to 

 the masses. As suggested before, we should like to see this 

 book in every district school in America. 



The Ancient Pit- Dwellers of Tezo, Japan. By Komyn 

 Hitchcock. Washington, S , 1892, pp. ii, plates 9. 



This pamphlet, by the former editor of the A. M. M. Journal., 

 has resulted from the study of a people among whom Mr. Hitch- 

 cock lived for two years, and is illustrated with photographs 

 taken by himself. The matter will be of interest to ethnologists 

 but not to microscopists, excepting those who personally knew 

 our predecessor. Copies can probably be obtained gratuitously 

 by addressing the National Museum. 



