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tion is brought in to give a fair degree of 

 general knowledge concerning the animals 

 or families under study, and the reader is 

 referred for further facts to accessible 

 works which give them. Thus the reader is 

 taught concerning the more common shells, 

 the mythologies and literature concerning 

 them, their microscopic structure, pearls, 

 seaweed, the nautilus, the Medusa 3 , echino- 

 derms, the Gordonidae, the work of mol- 

 lusks, the fate of shells, the use of the drag- 

 net, etc. 



Another, a little larger book of the 

 Home- Reading Series, is Uncle Sam's Secrets 

 (75 cents), the purpose of which is denned 

 by the author, Oscar Phelps Austin, "to be 

 to furnish the youth of the land some facts 

 about the affairs of the nation, and to 

 awaken in the mind of the reader an inter- 

 est in kindred subjects." In this book, too, 

 a thin thread of a story and the conversa- 

 tions of the characters in it are made the 

 vehicle for conveying instruction about dif- 

 ferent kinds of Government money, the 

 postal service, American geology, the mint, 

 the courts, the navy, bimetallism and mono- 

 metallism, the history of the currency, the 



tariff question, the history of parties, and 

 the presidential electoral system. Copious 

 references are made to the books in which 

 further information on those subjects may 

 be found. 



Among the great variety of information 

 on the special subject given by the Scovill 

 and Adams Company in their American 

 Annual of Photography and Photographic 

 Times Almanac for 1898 (price, *75 cents), 

 we single out for mention the contributed 

 articles conveying instruction as to methods 

 and processes or relating experiments and 

 experiences the chemical tables, the de- 

 scriptions of the novelties of the year, the 

 standard formulas and useful recipes, tables 

 for the simplification of emulsion calcula- 

 tions, tables of comparative light values, 

 the list of principal chemicals, photographic 

 schools, list of photographic books pub- 

 lished in 1897, the record of photographic 

 patents, lists of American and foreign pho- 

 tographic societies, and a list of hotels hav- 

 ing dark rooms for development. Numerous 

 plates and pictures represent photographic 

 work of rare excellence, or illustrate the 

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Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins 

 and Reports. New Hampshire College, Durham: 

 No. 47. Strawberries. By F. W. Rane. Pp. 24. 

 New Jersey : No. 126. Small Fruits. By Alva T. 

 Jordan. Pp. 32; Bovine Abortion, Milk Fever, 

 and Garget By Julius Nelson. Pp. 24. New 

 York: No. 130. Popular edition. A New Disease 

 of Sweet Corn. Pp. 5 ; No. 131. Popular edition. 

 Oat Smut and New Preventives. Pp. 6 ; No. 132. 

 Popular edition. Milk Fat from Fat-Free Food. 

 Pp. 6. All by F. H. Hall. Ohio : Newspaper 

 Bulletin. No. 180. The Sugar- Beet Tests of 1898. 

 Pp. 1. United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Weather Bureau: An Improved Sunshine Re- 

 corder. By D. T. Maring. Pp. 15. 



American Academy of Political and Social 

 Science. The Economic Relation of Life Insur- 

 ance to Society and State. Addresses by various 

 persons at the meeting, December 17, 1897, Phila- 

 delphia. Pp. 48. 25 cents. 



Bailey, L. H., and others. Garden Making. 

 Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds. 

 New York: TheMacmillan Company. Pp. 417. 

 $1. 



Bulletins, Proceedings, and Reports. American 

 Microscopical Society. Transactions, Twentieth 

 Annual Meeting, August. 1S97. Pp. 209. Amer- 

 ican Railway Association. Meeting of October, 

 1897. Pp. H)6. American Society of Naturalists. 

 Records, Vol. II, Part II. Providence, R. 1. Pp.47. 

 Argentina: Anales cle la Oficina Meteorologica 

 (Annals of the Meteorolcgical Office), Vol. XI. 

 Walter G. Davis, Director, Buenos Aires. Pp. 

 502. Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The 

 Highest Kite Ascensions in 1897. By S. P. Fergus- 

 son. Pp. 21. City of Springfield, Mass.: Report 

 of the Superintendent of Schools (advanced notes) 

 for 1SS7. Thomas M. Balliet, Superintendent. 



Linnsean Society of New York. Abstract of Pro- 

 ceedings for 1896-'97; with the Fishes of the Fresh 

 and Erackish Waters in the Vicinity of New York 

 City. By Eugene Smith. Pp. 50. 



Clerke, Agnes M., Fowler, A., and Gore, J. 

 Ellard. Astronomy. (The Concise Knowledge 

 Library.) New York: D. Appleton and Company. 

 Pp.581. $2. 



Eimer, Th. On Orthogenesis and the Impor- 

 tance of Natural Selection in Species Formation. 

 Chicago : Open Court Company (Religion of 

 Science Library). Pp. 56. 25 cents. 



Frankland, Percy, and Mrs. Percy. Pasteur. 

 New York : The Macmillan Company. (Century 

 Science Series.) Pp. 224. $1-25. 



Hittell, Theodore H. History of California. 

 Notice of the third and fourth volumes. Pp. 15. 



Jones, Harry C. The Freezing-point, Boiling- 

 point, and Conductivity Methods. Easton, Pa. : 

 The Chemical Publishing Company. Pp. 64. 75 

 cents. 



Kremers, Edward, Editor. Pharmaceutical 

 Archives. Vol. I, No. 1, January, 1898. Monthly. 

 Office of the Pharmaceutical Review. Milwaukee, 

 Wis. Pp. 24, with plates. $1 a year. 



Ladd, Prof. George Trumbull. Outlines of 

 Descriptive Psychology. A Text-Book of Mental 

 Science for Colleges and Normal Schools. New 

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Merriam, Florence A. Birds of Village and 

 Field. A Bird Book for Beginners. Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co. Pp. 406. $2. 



Noyes, Arthur A., and Mul liken, Samuel P. 

 Laborarory Experiments on the Class Reactions 

 and Identification of Organic Substances. Easton, 



