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illustrated; "The Dawn of Modern Geography, a history of 

 exploration and geographical science from the opening of the 

 Tenth to the middle of the Thirteenth Century, a.d., 900- 

 1250," by C. Raymond Beazley, illustrated; "Dangerous 

 Trades, the historical, social and legal aspects of industrial 

 occupations as affecting public health," by a number of experts, 

 edited by Dr. T. Oliver, illustrated ; " The Gypsies of Spain, 

 their Manners, Customs, Religion and Language," by A. 

 Wallis Mills, illustrated. 



Mr. J. C. Nimmo promises : — A new edition of" A Handbook 

 of British Birds, showing the distribution of the Resident and 

 Migratory Species in the British Islands, with an Index to the 

 Records of the Rarer Visitants," by J. E. Harting, illustrated. 

 Mr. David Nutt calls attention to translations of :—" The 

 Realms of the Dead in Ancient Egypt," by Prof. Alfred 

 Wiedemann ;" The Tell-el-Amarna Tablets," by Dr. C. 

 Niebuhr; "The Babylonian and Hebrew Genesis," by Prof. 

 H. Zimmern ; "The Babylonian Conception of Heaven and 

 Hell," by Dr. Alfred Jeremias ; " The Political Development 

 of Babylonia and Assyria," by Prof. II. Winckler. 



Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., announce : — " The Origin 

 of Thought," by Rev. D. Nickerson ; "Arsenic," by Prof 

 J. A. Wanklyn. 



Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons' announcements include : — 

 " The Method of Evolution," a review of the present attitude 

 of science toward the question of the laws and forces which 

 have brought about the origin of species, by II. W. Conn, 

 illustrated ; " Care of the Consumptive," a consideration of the 

 scientific use of natural therapeutic agencies in the prevention 

 and cure of consumption, together with a chapter on Colorado 

 as a resort for invalids, by Dr. Charles Fox Gardiner ; and a 

 new edition of " Thinking, Feeling, Doing," by E. W. Scrip- 

 ture, illustrated. 



In the announcements of Messrs. Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd., 

 we notice : — "Flora Capensis," the continuation edited by Sir 

 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., vol. vi., part i; "Flora of 

 Tropical Africa," the continuation edited by Sir W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, F. R. S , vol. viii., part i; "Monograph of Membra- 

 cidse," by George Bowdler Buckton, F.R.S. ; " The Hepaticse of 

 the British Isles," by W. H. Pearson, parts i to 17 ; "The 

 Lepidoptera of the British Islands," by Charles G. Barrett, 

 part 79; "Lepidoptera Indica," by F. Moore, part 49; 

 " Teracolus, a Monograph of the Genus," by E. M. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, part 9. 



Messrs. Walter Scott, Ltd., announce : — "The Mediterranean 

 Race," by Prof. Sergi ; and new editions of " Hypnotism," by 

 Dr. A. Moll ; "The Criminal," by H. Ellis ; "The Evolution of 

 Sex," by Profs. P. Geddes and J. A. Thomson ; and " The 

 Psychology of Religion," by Prof. Starbuck. 



In the list of Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., we see: — 

 " Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900, being 

 mainly a Clinical Study of the Effects of Injuries produced by 

 Bullets of Small Calibre," by George Henry Makins, illus- 

 trated. 



The S. P. C. K.'s list includes :—" British and Garden 

 Poisonous Plants," by Rev. Prof Henslow. 



Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., announce: — 

 " The Romance of the Heavens," by Prof A. W. Bickerton, 

 illustrated ; " Phenomenology of the Spirit," by G. W. F. 

 Hegel, translated by J. B. Baillie ; "The Elements of Embry- 

 ology, Man and Mammals," by Dr. O. Hertwig, translated and 

 edited by Dr. E.L. Mark and H. W. Rand; "The Specious 

 Present : a Metaphysical Treatise," by Alfred Hodder ; 

 "Student's Text Book ot Zoology," by Adam Sedgwick, 

 F.R.S. , vol.ii., illustrated ; " The Wonderful Century Reader," 

 by Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., illustrated ; "Biological 

 Types in the Vegetable Kingdom," by Wilfred Mark Webb ; 

 "Ethics," by Prof. W. Wundt, vol. iii. :— The Principles of 

 Morality and the Sphere of their Validity, translated and edited 

 by Prof. E. B. Titchener ; " Physiological Psychology," by Prof. 

 W. Wundt, translated from the fourth German edition by Prof. 

 E. B. Titchener. 2 vols; "Aristotle's Psychology," translated 

 and edited, &c., by Prof W. A. Hammond ; " History of Contem- 

 porary Philosophy," by Dr. Max Heinze, translated by Prof W. 

 Hammond ; " The Life of the Sea Shore," by M. Newbiggin, 

 illustrated ; " Text-Book of Palaeontology for Zoological 

 Students," by T. T. Groom, illustrated ; " Mammalia," by 

 Rev. H. A. Macpherson ; " Birds' Eggs and Nests," by W. C. 

 J. R. Butterfield, and a new edition of " Evolution and its 

 bearing on Religions," by A. J. Dadson. 



NO. 1638 VOL 63] 



The Science announcements of the University Tutorial Press 

 are: — "First Stage Practical Plane and Solid Geometry"; 

 "First Stage Machine Construction and Drawing"; "First 

 Stage Building Construction," by Brysson Cunningham ; 

 "Mathematics, First Stage," Edited by Dr. Wm. Briggs ; 

 "First Stage Physiology"; "Section One Physiography"; 

 " Key to Mechanics of Solids, First Stage," by F. Rosenberg; 

 " Advanced Hygiene," by A. E. Ikin and R. A. Lyster ; " The 

 Tutorial Algebra," part i.. Elementary Course, by Rupert 

 Deakin ; "The Tutorial Arithmetic," by W. P. Workman; 

 " Deductions in Euclid," by T. W. Edmondson. 



Mr. T. Fisher Unwin announces :— " In Tibet and Chinese 

 Turkestan," by Captain ii. H. P. Deasy, illustrated; '-'By 

 Rock and Pool," by Louis Becke. 



Mr. P. Wellby gives notice of :— A new edition of " Psychic 

 Philosophy as the Foundation of a Religion of Natural Law,"' 

 by V. C. Desertis. , 



Messrs. Whittaker's list is as follows : — " Electric Traction," 

 by J. H. Rider; "Electric Lighting and Power Distribution," 

 by W. Perren Maycock, vol. ii. ; " Galvanic Batteries," by 

 S. R. Bottone ; "Telephone System of the British Post Office," 

 by T. E. Herbert. 



UNIVERSITY AND ED UCA TIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge.— The subject for the Sedgwick Prize, 1903, \%. 

 " The Petrology of some Group of British Sedimentary Rocks." 



A John Lucas Walker Studentship in Pathology, of the value 

 of;i^20o a year for three years, will shortly be filled up. Candi- 

 dates, who need not be members of the University, are to apply 

 to Prof. Woodhead, Pathological Laboratory, by April 16. 



Mr. A. W. Hill and Mr. C. E. Inglis have been elected to 

 fellowships at King's College. Mr. Hill took first classes in the 

 Natural Sciences Tripos, 1897-98 ; Mr. Inglis was 22nd 

 Wrangler, 1897, and first class Mechanical Sciences Tripos, 

 1898. 



Dr. Kohn, of University College, Liverpool, has been elected 

 Principal of the new Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 

 Aldgate. 



The Senate of the University of Aberdeen have decided to 

 confer the honorary degree of LL. D. upon Prof. Virchow, of 

 Berlin, Major Alfred W. Alcock, Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, and Professor of Zoology in the Medical 

 College of that city, and Dr. Angus Eraser, of Aberdeen. 



The celebration of the ninth jubilee of the University of 

 Glasgow will begin on June 12, and will occupy three or four 

 days. The details of the programme have not yet been arranged, 

 but we understand that the celebration will probably include a 

 religious service in the Cathedral, public reception of delegates 

 and addresses from Universities and learned societies, a gradua- 

 tion ceremony, conversazione in the Bute Hall, banquet in the 

 City Chambers, garden party in the Bjtanic Gardens, and a 

 smoking concert. If the weather is fine there will also be an 

 excursion down the Clyde by steamer. 



SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 



American Journal of Science, March. — Circular magnetisation 

 and magnetic permeability, by John Trowbridge and E. P. 

 Adams. The experiments of Klemencic upon the intensity of 

 magnetisation produced by an oscillatory current in an iron wire, 

 showed that for a frequency of 9 x 10^ oscillations per second 

 the permeability of iron to oscillatory currents is a constant. 

 In the present paper the oscillation frequencies are much lower, 

 ranging from 600 to 3000, and in this case the permeability is 

 not a constant, but depends upon the strength of the magnetic 

 field ; that is, the iron behaves towards oscillatory currents in 

 much the same manner as it does towards steady currents. — 

 Notes on the geology of parts of the Seminole, Greek, Cherokee, 

 and Osage nations, by C. N. Gould. A line of coal beds extends 

 north and south near Bartlesville, Skiatook, Dawson, Tulsa, 

 Okmulgee, and Henryville. There is no reason to doubt that gas 

 and oil will eventually be found near these coal beds. — Names 

 for the formations of the Ohio coal measures, by C. S. Prossner. 

 — A new American species of Amphicyon, by J. L. Wortman. 



