Febeuaky 24, 1899.] 



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about 90 of these papers are abstracted and re- 

 viewed, chiefly by M. Biuet. 



L'Annee philosophique, of which M. Pillon is 

 the editor and Alcan the publislier, in the 

 issue for 1897 reaches its eighth volume. It 

 contains articles by M. Renouvier on the idea 

 of God, by M. Dauriae on the philosophy of 

 Paul Janet, and by the editor on Bayle and the 

 altruism of Epicurus. The editor also offers a 

 review of French philosophical publications ex- 

 tending to 140 pages. There is no bibliography. 

 .Messrs. Lemcke and Buechner, New York, 

 are the Amei'ican agents of a newly established 

 bibliography of French periodicals, edited by 

 M. Jordell. The example set in America was 

 last year followed in Germany, and we are 

 now glad to welcome a similar enterprise in 

 France. In this first issue 146 periodicals are 

 included, a subject index and an authors' in- 

 dex being provided. Scientificjournalsare not, 

 as a rule, considered, but it is exactly articles 

 that appear in the general journals that are 

 most likely to escape the attention of scientific 

 men, and the usefulness to them of such an 

 index is evident. It should be accessible in all 

 the larger libraries. 



GENERAL. 



It is stated that progress has been made with 

 the preparation, for publication, of the exten- 

 sive scientific material collected during the voy- 

 age of the Frmn, and that tliere is a likelihood 

 that the first volume of memoirs will be issued 

 during the coming summer or autumn. The 

 collection will be in quarto form, and the sep- 

 arate memoirs will be the work of a number of 

 specialists in the subjects treated, each being 

 paged separatelj'. The total number will prob- 

 ably be about twenty, forming from three to 

 five volumes. The memoirs will be published 

 at the expense of the Nausen Fund for the ad- 

 vancement of science. 



A QUARTO memoir upon Polypterus is being 

 projected at Columbia University as the result 

 of the Senif Expedition to the Nile. Specialists 

 in the nerves, muscles, blood vessels and vis- 

 ceral anatomy will divide the work, which is 

 designed to be of the most exhaustive char- 

 acter. Mr. Harrington is taking charge 

 of the distribution of the Senff collection 



to specialists in all parts of the country and 

 in Europe, with the understanding that the 

 results will be published by the New York 

 Academy of Science, and thus constitute a 

 special and uniform series, which can finally be 

 issued in compact form. 



Professor Titchener, of Cornell University, 

 is preparing for publication early in the fall ' A 

 Laboratory Manual of Experimental Psychol- 

 ogy,' which will be published by The Macmillan 

 Company. The work will be in two volumes 

 and will detail an elementary course of labora- 

 tory work. The first volume will deal with 

 qualitative analysis, the second with the exact 

 measurement of mental processes. Each vol- 

 ume will be published in a student's and a 

 teacher's edition, the former giving instructions 

 as regards the conduct of experiments, control 

 of introspection, etc., and the latter furnishing 

 references, cognate questions and exercises and 

 standard results. 



BOOKS received. 



In fhe Australian Bush and the Coast of the Coral Sea. 

 Richard Sejion. London and New York, The 

 Macmillan Company. 1899. Pp. xii + 552. $6.50. 



The Principles of Bacteriology. FERDINAND HoEPPE. 

 Translated by Dr. E. O. Jordan". Chicago, The 

 Open Court Publishing Co. 1899. Pp. viii + 467. 

 $1.75. 



The Dawn of Season or 3Tental Traits in the Lower 

 Animals. JABIES Weir. New York and London, 

 The Macmillan Company. 1899. Pp. xiii -f 234. 

 $1.25. 



A Brief Introduction to Modern Philosophy. ARTHUR 

 Kenyon Rogers. New York and London, The 

 Macmillan Company. 1899. Pp. viii f 360. 



The Story of the Cotton Plant. F. Wilkinson. New 

 York, D. Appleton & Co. 1899. Pp. 1^1. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 

 The Journal of Physical Chemistry, January. 

 ' Pressure temperature Diagrams for Binary 

 Systems,' by Wilder D. Bancroft.' ' The Dis- 

 sociative Power of Solvents,' by Louis Kahlen- 

 berg and Azariah T. Lincoln : a study of elec- 

 trical conductivity of a number of salts in 

 non-aqueous solutions, more fully noticed in 

 'Notes on Inorganic Chemistry.' ' Boiling-point 

 curves,' by E. F. Thayer : the boiling point 

 curves for mixtures of alcohol and chloroform, 



