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to its simplest elements ; it provides for the 

 vowels, and is on an alphabetic and syllabic 

 basis. (Macmillan & Co., $1.25.) 



The seventeenth monograph of the Geo- 

 logical Survey is The Flora of the Dakota 

 Group, a work on fossil botany by the late 

 Leo Lcsquereux (Geological Survey, $1.10). 

 The specimens from which the descriptions 

 in this work were written are mostly in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- 

 bridge, the museum of the University of 

 Kansas, and the private cabinet of Mr. R. 

 D. Lacoe, of Pittston, Pa. This was the 

 last production of its author, and the chief 

 events of his life are appropriately set forth 

 in the editor's preface. 



A monograph on the Gasteropoda and 

 Cephalopoda of the Raritan Clays and Green- 

 sand Marls of New Jersey, by Robert Parr 

 Whitficld, is the eighteenth in the series of 

 the Geological Survey, and forms also a 

 part of the report on the Survey of the State 

 of New Jersey. The material for this re- 

 port was very meager, the gasteropods being 

 represented in the several formations only 

 by casts and the cephalopods largely by 

 fragments. Fifty plates, each bearing from 

 one to thirty figures, illustrate the text. 



The United States Geological Survey has 

 issued A Dakota-English Dictionary, by 

 Stephen Return Riggs, a quarto volume of 

 665 pages. The author, who died in 1883, 

 was a student of the language for mission- 

 ary use for over thirty years, having pre- 

 pared a grammar and dictionary that was 

 published by the Smithsonian Institution in 

 1852. The present volume has been edited 

 by James Owen Dorsey. 



In the Report of the Commissioner of 

 Education for 1889-90 it is shown that the 

 property used for common schools had 

 reached the value of $350,000,000, an aver- 

 age increase of $10,000,000 a year since 

 1870. In the same period the school at- 

 tendance in the South Atlantic States had 

 risen from six to twenty- two per cent of the 

 whole population, and in the South Central 

 States from seven and a half to twenty-three 

 and a half per cent. The enrollment for 

 the whole country is twenty-three per 

 cent. This is a better showing than that 

 of any other nation except Saxony. But 

 many European states have a much longer 

 yearly session than we have. Here, says 



the commissioner, is the place to show 

 improvement in future years. Among the 

 subjects on which special reports are pre- 

 sented are the educational congresses held 

 in Paris hi 1889, education in Scotland, 

 the higher schools of Prussia and the school 

 conference of 1890, temperance instruction, 

 and the curricula of professional schools. 

 Numerous other topics receive attention also, 

 and there are the usual statistics. 



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