150 - THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [May 
are Honorary ; 8S. W. Fletcher, M. D., Pepperill, Mass., 
and D. Bryce Scott of Moncton, N. B are Ordinary. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Das Mikroskop in Chemischen Laboratorium. By Dr. 
F. Rinne, 74 pp. 202 figs. 4 marks. Hanover. Optical 
properties of crystals and minerological microscopy get 
excellent treatment. Polarization and micro-methods 
are described in the German language. 
Die Technik des Modernen Mikroskopes. By Dr. W. 
Kaiser, 80 pp. in each of two parts, 4 marks. Vienna. 
Instruments of German and Austrian makers are fully 
discussed. Optics and mechanics in these two parts are 
to be followed later by other topics. Great advances 
have been made by Viennese firms of Reichert, Merker 
and Ebeling since 1880. 
Strasberger’s Botany. Fifth Edition translated by 
Hillhouse, issued in London, 1900, 519 pp. 162 figs. 
An Astrology.—By A. Alpheus. 217 pp.12mo. Until 
within a century or two, physicians always used astrolo- 
gy and they used it more than all other people but astron- 
omers used it also. The great Kepler used it and was non- 
plussed because he failed in an attempt to predict the 
death of Wallenstein. The position of Uranus is now said 
to have caused it, but Uranus had not been discovered in 
Kepler’s time and had to be left out of his calculations, 
One of the most eminent physicians of Boston secretely 
uses astrology and told this author during the first hour 
of acquaintance that this author, then totally ignorant of 
the subject, that he would become a leader in astrology. 
This book in small compass, opens the whole subject, is 
beautifully bound and will be sent with the Microscopical 
Journal of 1901 for two dollars. You cannot afford in 
ignorance to ignore the matter. | 
