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ture of care and time. Still another point that 

 should have been treated in greater detail is 

 the use of the ortho-chromatic plate. 



On such points as the last two mentioned 

 there is a lack of practical information which will 

 give the book less of a circulation than it should 

 have and deserves to have on account of its 

 many excellent qualities. 



Frank Waldo. 



books eeceived. 



Man, Past and Present. A. H. Kkane. Cambridge 

 University Press. 1899. Pp. xil 4- 584. 



A short History of Free Tliought ; Ancient and Modern. 

 John M. Eobeetson. London, Swan, Sonnen- 

 schein & Co. , Ltd. ; New York, The Macmillan Com- 

 pany. 1899. Pp. xii -f- 446. 



Vital Statistics. Arthur Newsholme. London, 

 Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.; New York, The Mac- 

 millan Company. 1899. Pp. xii + 353. 



Handbook of Brilisli, Continental and Canadian Univer- 

 sities, with special mention of the Courses open to 

 Women. Isabel Maddison. New York, The Mac- 

 millan Company. 1899. Pp. iv-|-174. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE SCIENCE CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 



V7ISC0NSIN. 



At the meeting of the Club held on May 12th 

 papers were read by G. C. Comstock on ' Some 

 Recent Applications of Photography to Astro- 

 nomical Discovery ' and by F. H. King on ' The 

 Flow of Liquids through Porous Media.' 



Oflicers for the ensuing year 1899-1900 were 

 elected as follows : President, Mr. Charles E. 

 VanHise; Vice-President, Mr. Edward Kremers; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. Charles F. Bur- 

 gess. 



On the evening of May 6th the Club gave a 



Medal of the Science Club of the University of AVisconsin. 



Every-day Butterflies : A Group of Biographies. SAM- 

 UEL Hubbard Scudder. Boston and New 

 York, Houghton, Miffiin & Company. 1899. Pp. 

 336. 



A Selected Biography of the Anthropology and Ethnology. 

 William Z. Eipley. Boston, Trustees of the 

 Boston Public Library. 1899. Pp. 159. 



Thatsachen tind Auslegungen in Bezug auf Regeneration. 

 August Weismann. Jena, Gustav Fischer. 1899. 

 Pp. 31. 



Traite clemeniaire du mechanique cliimique fondle sur 

 le thermodynamique. P. Duhem. Paris, Her- 

 mann. 1899. Pp. 381. 



dinner in the Madison Guild Hall in recognition 

 of the election of its lirst President, Mr. George 

 Cary Comstock, to the National Academy of 

 Sciences, and the awarding of a medal to its 

 second President, Mr. Stephen Moulton Bab- 

 cock, by the Legislature of the State of Wis- 

 consin. 



On June 22d the first award of the Science 

 Club Medal will be made to that member of 

 the senior class of the University of Wisconsin 

 who presents the best thesis giving the results 

 of his own original investigation of a scientific 



