FEBRUARY 8, 1901.] 
a steady growth in every department, which 
places it in the front rank of Southern institu- 
tions and equal, if not ahead, of many of the 
older colleges of the North. Under the admin- 
istration of President Prather its work is stead- 
ily advancing and it is to be hoped that the 
Legislature of Texas will see the necessity of an 
enlarged and ample endowment. 
Rost. T. HILu. 
BOOKS OF REFERENCE. 
WE have received from Messrs. Lemcke & 
Buechner, New York, the tenth volume of the 
invaluable year-book of the learned world, 
‘Minerva,’ which is now a volume of 1,235 
pages. The frontispiece is an etching of Pro- 
fessor W. C. Rontgen, the other men of science 
selected for this purpose in previous volumes 
having been Pasteur, Kelvin, Schiaparelli and 
Nansen. The editor has been compelled to 
give up his plan of including in the work data 
ofinternational congresses, whichis regrettable, 
though the task of securing such information is 
doubtless difficult. As itis the work contains 
a vast mass of information—a rough calculation 
indicates that the names of about 32,000 scien- 
tific and learned men, connected withthe world’s 
institutions of learning, are included. The 
statistics of students given at the end show 
that the universities having an attendance of 
‘over a thousand students are distributed as 
follows: United States, 26; Germany and 
Austria, 24; Italy, 10; Great Britain and 
France, 8 each; Russia, 7; Spain, 4; Norway 
and Sweden, 3; Switzerland, Belgium and 
Canada, each 2; Denmark, Portugal, Egypt, 
Brazil, Chili, Philippines, New Zealand and 
Japan one each. 
‘Wxo’s WHO’ for 1901, published in London 
by the Blacks, and in New York by the Mac- 
millans, is also a useful work of reference, giv- 
ing as it does short biographies of the leading 
men and women of Great Britain and of a few 
Americans. All the leading British men of 
science are included, and it is interesting to 
note how many there are and what important 
work they have accomplished. It is impossible 
to discover by what principle or lack of prin- 
ciple the Americans haye been selected. The 
provost of the University of Pennsylvania is 
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there, but not the president of Harvard Uni- 
versity. Mr. Tesla is included, but not the two 
or three of our most eminent men of science 
who have been looked up. ‘The editing of the 
book appears to be careful, but not perfect. 
Thus to take a somewhat trivial example, 
Francis Darwin is said to be the son of ‘ Charles 
Robert Darwin,’ George Howard Darwin is 
said to be the son of ‘the late Charles Robert 
Darwin (author of the ‘ Origin of Species,’ etc.)’ 
and Leonard Darwin is said to be the son of ‘ the 
celebrated Charles Darwin, Down, Kent.’ The 
12,000 biographies, more or less, which the 
volume contains are certainly most useful for 
reference. In this connection it may be stated 
that a new edition of the American ‘Who's 
Who’ is in preparation, and the editor Mr. John 
W. Leonard, care of A. N. Marquis & Co., 
Chicago, will be glad to secure corrections and 
additions to the last edition. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Practical Electro-chemistry. BERTRAM BLOUNT. New 
York, The Macmillan Company; London, Archi- 
bald Constable & Company. 1901. Pp. xi+ 374. 
Electricité et Optique. H. PoINCARE. Paris, Georges 
Carré and C. Naud. 1901. Pp. ii + 641. 
The Bird Book. FANNIE HARDY EcKstToRM. Bos- 
ton, D. C. Heath & Company. 1901. Pp. xii+ 
276. $.60. 
Elevation and Stadia Tables. ARTHUR P. DAvISs. 
New York, John Wiley & Sons; London, Chapman 
Hall, Limited. 1901. Pp. 43. 
Laboratory Instructions in Chemistry. ERNEST A. 
Conepon. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston’s Son & 
Company. 1901. Pp. viii-+ 110. 
Studien iiber den Milchsaft und Schleimsaft der Pflantzen. 
Hans MouiscuH. Jena, Gustay Fisher. 1901. Pp. 
viii + 111. 
Die Reizleitung und die reizleitenden Strukturen bei den 
Pflanzen. B. NEMEC. Jena, Gustay Fisher. 1901. 
Pp. 153. Tafeln 111. 
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology. J. W.PowELL. Washington, Govern- 
ment Printing Office. 1898. Part II. Pp. 752. 
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 
THE Botanical Gazette for January, 1901, con- 
tains a second contribution by Professor C. 8. 
Sargent, ‘On New or Little Known North Amer- 
ican Trees.’ This special fascicle of descriptions 
