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brace all fossil Medusae. His work is now 

 published as a separate memoir, Fos- 

 sil Medusae, as one of the Monographs of 

 the United States Geological Survey 

 (Vol. XXX). The Middle Cambrian Me- 

 dusae are first described, and then, in 

 order, the Lower Cambrian of the United 

 States and of Sweden and Bohemia and 

 the Jurassic of Bavaria. The text is 

 illustrated by forty-seven excellent 

 plates. 



A new edition, revised and with ad- 

 ditions, of the Mechanics and Heat of 

 Edward L. Nichols and W. 8. Francis is 

 published by the Macmillan Company 

 ($1.50). The book is the first volume of 

 the Elements of Physics of the authors, 

 which is complete in three volumes. We 

 find in it no explanation of the nature 

 and extent of the revisions and ad- 

 ditions. 



The publication of such a book as 

 Catering for Two Comfort and Econ- 

 omy for small Households (G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons, $1.25) has been suggested 

 to Alice L. James by the difficulty of 

 reducing the average rules of the cook- 

 lx>ok to meet the wants of a family of 

 two or three. The work embodies the 

 results of sixteen years' experience in 

 labor and study, and the author hopes 

 that with it the way may be made eas- 

 ier for others whose bills of fare may 

 be made for two. The directions are 

 claimed to be throughout exact and re- 

 liable, and the dishes to be nourishing, 

 appetizing, and inexpensive. The au- 



thor's plan is to take a bill of fare with 

 a comfortable variety of dishes, and 

 direct explicitly how each is to be pre- 

 pared. 



The manual on Testing Milk and its 

 Products, prepared for dairy students, 

 creamery and cheese factory operators, 

 food chemists, and dairy farmers, by 

 E. E. Farrington and F. W. Noll, has 

 reached a fourth edition, the first three 

 editions having been exhausted in about 

 a year. The present edition has been 

 thoroughly revised, and such additions 

 have been made to it as have been neces- 

 sary to bring it up to date. It has been 

 adopted as a text-book or reference-book 

 in the dairy schools of twelve States of 

 the Union and in a number of schools 

 in Canada. (Published by the Mendota 

 Book Company, Madison, Wis. $1.) 



The Silver Cross, or the Carpenter 

 of Nazareth (International Publishing 

 Company, New York), is a short story 

 selected and translated from The Mys- 

 teries of the People of Eugene Sue, and 

 published for the sake of the illustra- 

 tions it is supposed to afford of the 

 tyranny of the ruling class and the op- 

 pression of the working people and the 

 poor and their suffering thereby which 

 prevailed in the grand days of the Ro- 

 man Empire, as well as always before, 

 and is assumed to have continued down 

 to the present. It is the story of the life 

 and sufferings of Jesus of Nazareth, told 

 in the thrilling style of the great French 

 novelist. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bul- 

 letins and Reports. Delaware College: No. 

 44. Sorghum in 1898. By Charles L. Pen- 

 ny. Pp. 16. Michigan State Agricultural 

 College. Special, No. 11. Frozen Trees 

 nnd their Treatment. Pp. 4; Noa. 1GG aud 

 167. Dairy Matters. By C. D. Smith and 

 G. H. True. Pp. 30; No. 168. Michigan 

 Fruit List. By L. H. Taft. Pp. 16: Michi- 

 gan Bulletin of Vital Statistics, February 

 and March, 1899. Pp. 20 each. New 

 Hampshire College: No. 58. The Cost of 

 raising Calves. By Fred W. Morse. Pp. 

 12; No. 59. Tenth Annual Report. By 

 Charles S. Murkland. Pp. 56: No. 60. 

 Green Corn under Glass. By F. William 

 Rane. Pp. 60; No. 61. The Inspection 

 of Fertilizers in 1898. Pp. 12; No. 62. 

 Forcing Pole Beans under Glass. By F. 

 William Rane. Pp. 8. New Jersey: Re- 

 port of the Botanical Department for 1898. 

 By Byron D. Halsted. Pp. 84; No. 135. 

 The Poisonous Plants of New Jersey. By 

 Byron D. Halsted. Pp. 28. New York: 

 No. 150. Two Small Fruit Pests. By F. 

 H. Hall nnd V. H. Lowe. Pp. 5. Ohio: 

 No. 99. Sugar Beet Investigations in 1898. 



By A. D. Selhy; United States Department 

 of Agriculture. Some Insects Injurious 

 to Garden and Orchard Crops. By F. 

 H. Chittenden. Pp. 99; North Dakota 

 Weather and Crop Service for December, 

 1898. By W. L. Moon and B. H. Bronson. 

 Pp. 8. 



American Economic Association. The 

 Federal Census. Critical Essays by Mem- 

 bers of the Association. Pp. 516. Pa- 

 per. $1. 



American Public Health Association. 

 The Bertillon Classification of Causes of 

 Death. Lansing, Mich. Pp. 40. 



Badenoch, L. N. True Tales of the In- 

 sects. London: Chapman & Hall. Pp. 255. 



Barber, Edwin Atlee. Anglo-American 

 Pottery. (Old English China, with Ameri- 

 can Views.) Indianapolis, Ind. : Press of 

 the Clay-worker. Pp. 170. $1.50. 



Bauer, L. A. The Physical Decomposi- 

 tion of the Earth's Magnetic Field, No. 1. 

 Pp. 20. Is the Principal Source of the 

 Secular Variation of the Earth's Magnet- 

 ism within or without the Earth's Crust? 

 Pp. 6. 



