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Consular Reports, August, 1897. Commerce, 

 Manufactures, etc. Washington: Government 

 Printing Office. Pp. 144. 



Cooley, Le Roy C. The Student's Manual of 

 Physics, for the Study Room and Laboratory. 

 American Book Company. Pp. 448. $1. 



Cushing, Frank Hamilton. A Preliminary Re- 

 port on the Exploration of Ancient Key-Dweller 

 Remains on the Gulf Coast of Floiida Pp. 120. 



Cushing, Frank Hamilton, and Morris, J. Ches- 

 ton. Shamanism. Pp. 14. 



Day, William C. The Stone Industry in 1896. 

 United States Geological Survey. Pp. 126. 



Dodge, Charles Richards. A Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of the Useful Fiber Plants of the World, in- 

 cluding the Structural and Economical Classifica- 

 tions of Fibers. United States Department of 

 Agriculture. Pp 361, with plates. 



Galton, Francis. The Average Contribution of 

 each Several Ancestor to the Total Heritage of the 

 Offspring. Royal Society, London. Pp. 12. 



Imperial University, Japan Journal of the 

 College of Science. Vol. X, Part 2. Tokyo. Pp. 

 116, with plates. 



Kenners, R. C. The Therapeutic Management 

 of Certain Scrofulous Affection*. Pp. 5. 



Lewis, Margaret. Clymene Products. Sp. 

 Nov. Boston Society of Natural History. Pp. 5, 

 with plates. 



Maltbie, Milo Le Roy. English Social Gov- 

 ernment of To-day. A Study of the Relations of 

 Central and Local Government. New York: Co- 

 lumbia University. Pp. 296. $2. 



Mays, Thomas J., M. D. Increase of Insanity 

 and Consumption among the Negro Population of 

 the South since the War. Pp. 13. 



Morse, William H., Westfield, N. J. Opium. 

 Pp.6. 



New York Public Library Astor, Lenox, and 

 Tilden Foundations. August, 1897. Pp. 36. 



Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. Fertil- 

 izers on a C.ay Soil. Pp. 2. 



Ohio State University. The College of Agri- 

 culture and Domestic Science, 1897-1 89H. 



Palmer, T. S. Extermination of Noxious Ani- 

 mals by Bounties. United States Department of 

 Agriculture. Pp. 16. 



Princeton University. Graduate Department, 

 Courses in Philosophy, 1897- 1 98. Pp. 4. 



Red way, Jacques W. Natural Elementary Ge- 

 ography. American Book Company. Pp. 144. 50 

 cents. 



Scientific Alliance of New York. Directory for 

 1897. Pp. 59. 25 cents. 



Singer, Ignatius, and Berens, Lucius H. Some 

 Unrecognized Laws of Nature. New York : D. 

 Appleton and Company. Pp. 311. $2.25. 



Smith, Vannie E., M. D. Cerebral Hyperamia. 

 Pp.6. 



Starr, Frederick. The Little Pottery Objects 

 of Lake Chapala, Mexico. University of Chi- 

 cago. Pp. 27. Study of the Criminal in Mexico. 

 Pp. 17. 



United States Fish Commission. Bulletin. 

 Vol. XVI. Washington : Government Printing 

 Office. Pp. 427. 



United States Treasury Department. Notice 

 to Mariners, for July, 1897. Pp. 16. 



Weir, James. The Psychical Correlation of 

 Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire. Owens- 

 boro, Ky. Pp. 32. 



Whitman, C. O., and Wheeter, W. M., Editors. 

 Zoological Bulletin Bimonthly. Vol. I, No. 1. 

 Pp. 55. 75 cents. $3 a year. 



Wright, Carroll D., and Weaver, Oren W., 

 Editors. Bulletin of the Department of Labor. 

 No. 11, July, 1897. Government Printing Office. 

 Pp. 156. 



Youmans, E. L., Editor. The Culture De- 

 manded by Modern Life. New York : D. Apple- 

 ton and Company. Pp. 473. 



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A Bnnsen Burner for leetylene. An in- 



teresting item regarding the use of acetylene 

 as a heating agent occurs in the Chemical 

 News. A. E. Munby writes: "The cheap 

 production of calcium carbide has placed a 

 powerful illuminant within the reach of those 

 who possess no gas supply, but so far little 

 has been heard of the use of acetylene as a 

 heating agent. Our laboratory is, so far as 

 we know, the first to make use of the gas 

 for this purpose. We employ a Bunsen 

 burner of special dimensions, the tube being 

 five millimetres in internal diameter. A 

 slightly wider tube may be used, provided 

 the mouth be curved inward, so that the 

 actual exit does not exceed the diameter 

 mentioned ; if larger, the flame tends to 

 strike down, The gas jet is very small, be- 

 ing only capable of delivering about one 

 cubic foot of acetylene per hour under six 



inches water pressure, such a rate of con- 

 sumption giving an ordinary working flame. 

 The air holes and collar are arranged as in 

 an ordinary Bunsen, the exact size of the 

 former not being of much importance, pro- 

 vided they be large enough to admit the air 

 required. A generator capable of giving gas 

 under seven inches water pressure with the 

 full number of burners in use is required. 

 The heating effect of the flame is, of course, 

 very great, enabling one to dispense with the 

 blowpipe for some operations, such as small 

 fusions. ... It would seem that in practice, 

 for equal volumes burned, the acetylene has 

 nearly twice the heating power of coal gas." 



Officers of the American Association. 



At the recent Detroit meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, Prof. F. W. Putnam resigned the office 



