230 THE AiTBRICAN MONTHLY FJuly 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The Scientific Skeleton.— Samuel Blodg-ett, Grafton, N. 

 Dak., 16 mo. 105 pp. 25 cents. The author in a quiet and 

 modest way sets forth very many plausible objections to 

 the received scientific teaching-s in reg-ard to g-ravitation, 

 evolution, tides, w^inds, movements of the heavenly bodies, 

 etc. In contradistinction to the usual objector, he has no 

 theories of his own to substitute. He prefers to say we 

 do not know to saying- such absurd thing's as he proves the 

 fundamental theories of science to be. He deals with the 

 alleg-ations of such astronomers as C. A. Young-, LL. D. 

 in a way to command respect and thoug-htfulness. Science 

 is materialistic in the sense that it takes no account of any 

 supposed intellig-ence inhering- in matter. It would smile 

 at the idea of the sun being- an enormous personality, self- 

 controlled, and accomplishing- its purposes by means of 

 the material sun which astronomy studies. Though Blod- 

 g-ett does not say so, he reasons as if a proper study of the 

 sun's activities oug-ht to proceed on a much larg-er hypo- 

 thesis than that the sun is only matter in motion. Suppose 

 man were studied solely as protoplasm in motion ! 



MICROSCOPK AL NOTES. 



Bloody ^A^ate^. — There exists a very small Infusorian, 

 the Eug-lena viridis, which is capable of enormous multi- 

 plication and after spending itsyouth in g-reen it chang-es 

 at maturity to a beautiful crimson which deeply ting-es the 

 water in which the colonies live. This bloody water has 

 been seen in the White Mountains and it is supposed that, 

 by causing^ g-reat numbers of these animals to g-row by 

 a psychic power, Moses and the Eg-yptian mag-icians pro- 

 duced the bloody waters described in Exodus 7 : 17-24. 



Bleaching. — ^The peroxide of hydrog-en (Marchand) may 

 be used with advantag-e to whiten out the organs of small 

 animals. 



