Maech 31, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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its eastern and southern margin." Of the rain- 

 fall on the Edwards Plateau a large part must 

 reach the water-bearing strata by percolating 

 downward. 



By the Balcones faulting, however, the con- 

 tinuity of the beds is broken on the southeast 

 and south ; hence the contained water must 

 either escape through fissures, forming fissure 

 springs, or be forced into the porous beds un- 

 derlying the Rio Grande Plain — beds which oc- 

 cupy a different position in the geologic col- 

 umn, as, for instance, the porous Edwards 

 limestone abutting the water-bearing Glen Rose 

 beds. 



The report is enriched with many excellent 

 plates, not to mention maps and diagrams. Of 

 the former, fourteen illustrate the characteris- 

 tic fossils of the principal formations encountered 

 in drilling for artesian water. 



Frederic W. Simonds. 



UxiVEESiTY OF Texas. 



A Handbook of Medical Climatology : Embody- 

 ing its Principles and Therapeutic Applica- 

 tion, with Scientific Data of the Chief Health 

 Resorts of the World. By S. Edwin Solly, 

 M. D., M. R. C. S., Late President of the 

 American Climatological Association. Phila- 

 delphia and New York, Lea Bros. & Co. Il- 

 lustrated. CI. 8vo. Pp. 470. Price, $4.00. 

 This work is a systematic treatise on climate 

 in its medical relations. It affords precise in- 

 formation with reference to health resorts, en- 

 abling physicians and their patients to obtain 

 unprejudiced reports as to localities without re- 

 liance on the scattered and often unreliable 

 data hitherto available. 



The first two sections deal with the principles 

 of medical climatology ; the effect of cold ; 

 humidity ; perspiration ; barometric pressure ; 

 the effect of climate as seen in different races of 

 men ; and the geographical distribution of dis- 

 ease. 



The application of climate to the treatment of 

 phthisis forms an important chajater of seventy 

 pages. It bears evidence of the author's large 

 experience with this affection. The effect of 

 climate on other organs besides the lungs is also 

 included. 



We believe it would have been wiser not to 



have attempted to cover the entire globe in the 

 treatment of this extensive subject. The por- 

 tion devoted to the United States is ample so 

 far as it relates to the Rocky Mountain Region 

 and the Pacific Slope. It is presented in such 

 an attractive manner that we wish that the 

 Eastern and Middle States had been more fully 

 exploited. At least a paragraph on Atlantic 

 City and Cape May might well have been added, 

 not to mention other resorts on the New Jersey 

 coast. Bedford Springs and Glen Summit, in 

 Pennsylvania, seem to have escaped the author's 

 attention. In a work of this kind sins of omis- 

 sion are almost inevitable, and it is difficult to 

 make the text so even as to satisfy critics from 

 every locality. We do not know of any one 

 better qualified to discuss the intricacies of the 

 American climates than Dr. Solly ; certainly no 

 one hitherto has presented the subject in so at- 

 tractive and useful a volume. 



G. Hinsdale. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The first number of the American Anthro- 

 pologist, new series, to the plans for which we 

 have already called attention, has been issued 

 by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. The number, 

 which contains 200 pages and 10 plates, is made 

 up as follows : 



Powell, J. W. Esthetology, or the Science of Ac- 

 tivities designed to give Pleasure. 



Brinton, Daniel G. Tiie Calchaqui: an Arcbeo- 

 logioal Problem. 



Mason, Otis T. Aboriginal American Zooteohny. 



Fletcher, Alice C. A Pavpnee Ritual used when 

 changing a Man's Name. 



Boas, Franz. Some Recent Criticisms of Physical 

 Anthropology. 



Holmes, W. H. Preliminary Revision of the Evi- 

 dence relating to Aurifereus Gravel Man in Cali- 

 fornia, ( First Paper. ) 



Brinton, Daniel G. Professor Blumentritt's Stud- 

 ies of the Philippines. 



Mooney, James. The Indian Congress at Omaha. 



Hough, Walter. Korean Clan Organization. 



Gatsohet, A. S. 'Real,' 'True,' or 'Genuine' in 

 Indian Languages. 



Tooker William Wallace. The adopted Algonquian 

 term 'Poquosiu.' 



Anthropologic Literature. 



Current Bibliographj' of Anthropology. 



Notes and News. 



