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Dawson, Sir J. William. The Canadian Ice 

 Age. Montreal : W. V. Dawson. New York : 

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Day, David T. Mineral Besources of the 

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 Survey. Pp. 850. 



Denison, Charles. Climates of the United 

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De Quatrefages, A. Les Emnles de Darwin 

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Du Puis, N. P. Elements of Synthetic Solid 

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Foreman Pattern-maker, A. Helical Gears. 

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Forney, M. N., Editor. Aeronautics. Month- 

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Fort Worth (Texas) Public Schools. Annual 

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Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York. A 

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Gamgee, Arthur. A Text-book of the Physio- 

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Hectoen, Ludvig. Technique of Post-mortem 

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Hoffmann, Charles Frederick. Christ the Pat- 

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Huxley, Thomas H. Method and Results- 

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Jackman, W. S. Number Work in Nature 

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Julien, Alexis A., New York. Notes of Re- 

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Keen, W. W., M. D., Easton, Pa. Medicine as 

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Nassau Literary Magazine. Princeton College. 

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Powell, J. W., Director. Ninth Annual Re- 

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Public Ledger Almanac for 1894. Philadel- 

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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Geological Society of America. The sixth 

 annual meeting of the Geological Society of 

 America was held December 27-29, 1893, in 

 Boston and Cambridge, Mass. The sessions 

 of the opening and closing days were hi the 

 hall of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, and those of the second day were in the 

 Harvard University Museum, Cambridge. The 

 Geological Society has a membership oiSabout 

 two hundred and twenty-five, comprising most 

 of the prominent working geologists of North 

 America. It holds two meetings yearly, one 

 in the summer in connection with the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and a winter meeting in the holi- 

 days following Christmas. Each of these 

 meetings is held successively in different 

 cities of the United States and Canada, pre- 

 vious winter meetings having been held in 

 New York, Washington, Columbus, and Ot- 

 tawa. The officers elected for the year 1894 

 are Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, of Chicago, 

 president ; Prof. N. S. Shaler, of Cambridge, 



