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SCIENCE. 



[Vol.. I., No. 3. 



Ainericau public almost exclusively through the in- 

 siifficieut uiediuin of the newspapers. Dr. Theo. 

 Gill, who lectured on the lOlh inst. on Mythical 

 animals, departed from the consideration of animals 

 which exist in fact, and gave his audience an account 

 of some which exist in fancy. Dr. Jolin S Billings 

 closed the first half of the. course, taking for his 

 theme, Germs and epidemics. He gave a concise 

 account of the results of the latest investigations of 

 Paslenr and others, regarding the relations of micro- 

 scopic organisms to disease; weaving in, to a greater 

 or less extent, his own views upon the matter. 



The programme for the second luilf of the course 

 is as follows: Feb. 24, Prof. L. F. Ward, the Plant 

 life of the globe, past and present; March 3, Mr. W. 

 H. Dall, I'earls and pearl-li-heries; March 10, Major 

 J. W. Powell, Indian mythology; March 17, Prof. C. 

 V. Riley, Adaptation and interdependence between 

 plants and insects ; March 24, Prof. C. A. White, 

 the Teachings of paleontology ; March 31, Dr. K. 

 Fletcher, U. S. A., Human proportion in art and 

 anthropometry. 



RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 



[Continnatton-i and brief papers extracted from serial titera- 

 tare wiihoul ropuguiaiioit are not included in thift List. Excep- 

 tions are inadf fur annual reports of Anterican institutions^ 

 newly established' periodicals^ and memoirs of considerable 

 extent ] 



Baltimore — Johns Hoptiins univerflity. Studios in liistorical 

 and pulitical ecinnce; ed. by Hurbert B. Adams. Battimore, 

 Unioersitij. 18S2-83. 8". 

 I. An introduction to American institutional history; by 



Edward A. Freeman. tS82. p. 39. 

 II. The Germanic oriuin of New England towns; by H. B. 

 Adams, With notes on cooperation in university work. 



1882. p- 67. 



III. Local government in Illinois; by Albert Shjiw : Local 



government in Pennsylvania; by E. R. L. Gould. Jan., 



1883. p. 37. 



IV. Saxon tithini,' men in America; by H. B. Adams. Feb., 



1883. p. -li. 



Bible myths, and their parallels in other religions; being a 

 comparison of the old and new testament myths and miracles 

 with those uf heathen nations of antiquity, considering also their 

 oriL'in and meaning. N. Y ., Bouton. 1883. 6-10 p. S°. 



Bouohon-Brandely. Itapport au ministre rte la marine sur 

 la giiiieration et la fei-ondatioii arliiicielle des huitres portugaises. 

 Paris, 1882. 51 p. 8°. 



Brubaker, A. P. Physiology. Philad., Blakislon. 1883. 

 133 p. 12°. 



Buet, Charles. Madagascar, la rcine des iles africaines: 

 histoire, inoeurs, religion, flore, etc. Paris, Palme. 1883. 12+ 

 391 p. 8". 



Cambridge entomological cUth. Annual reports for 1882. 

 Cambridge, Vlub. 1883. 31 p. 32°. 



Connecticut ai;ricuUural experiment station. Annual 

 report fur 188i. New Haven, .i'^ifc. 1883. 114 p. 8°. 



Conn. — Shell lish commissioners. Second report. Middle- 

 town, Stale. 1883. 44 p., map. 8°. 



Davy, Humphry. I.es derniers jours d'un philosophe. En- 

 tretiens sur la nature, les sciences, ies metatTiorphoses de la terre 

 ct du ciel. rhumanite. Fame, et la vie eternelle Ouvrage traduit 

 de Taiiglais, accompagne d'une preface et de notes, par C. Flara- 

 marion. Oe id. VmU, Didiir. lS8i. 32+374 p. 18°. 



"Pabre, J. 'MeiH-t. Histoire natnrelle. Geologic (programme 

 olllciul du 3 aoat 1830 et iuBlructions minlslerielles du 18 oct. 

 1881). 3'- aun. i>>\.ne, llflagrane. 18S2. 260 p. )2°. 



Ferris, B. G. A new theory of the origin of species. N. Y., 

 Fowlir and Wells. 18i3. 278 p. 12'. 



Gerhard, W. Paul. House draiiiaue and sanitary plumb- 

 ing. N. Y., Van Nostrand. 1882. 2uj~p. 24°. 



Girardin, J. Le5_one de chimie elementaire appliquee aux 

 arts industriels. Be id. Tom. iii. Chimie organioue. Paris, 

 Masson. 1883. 620 p., 330 fig. 8°. 



Grand, S. L'industrie huitrifere a Marennes; la Seudre et 

 ses rivages; des claires a verdir, soius aunuels k donner aux 

 Claires, etc. Paris, Michelet. 1883. 31 p. 8°. 



Guerin, Victor. Rapports addresses a M. le ministre de 

 I'instruction publique, sur sa mission scientilique dans le Liban. 

 Paris, im%i. Leve. 1883. 28 p. 8°. 



Hale, P. M. The woods and timbers of North Carolina; a 

 compilation from the botanical and geologic-U reports of Drs. 

 Curtis, Emmons, and Kerr; to which are added information ob- 

 tained from the census bureau and accurate reports from the 

 several counties. Raleigh, Z^afc. 1883. 272 p., map. 12°. 



Indiana. — Department of geology and natural history. 

 Eleventh annual report, 1881. John Collett, slate geologist. 

 Indianapolis, Slate. 1882. 414 p., 5 maps, 65 pi. 8°. 



Kuhff, G. A. Les organes genitaus de I'homme et de la 

 femme, structure et fonctions, etc. 2e ed. Paris, Balliere. 1883, 

 64 p. 8°. 



Latteux, Paul. Manuel de technique microscopique, ou 

 Guide pratique pour I'etude et le maniement du microscope. 

 2e id. Paris, Delahaye, etc. 1883. 11 + 477 p., 177 fig. 18°. 



Lecouteux, Edouard. Le ble, sa culture intensive et exten- 

 sive. Paris, imp. Okaix. 1882. 8+413 p., 60 fig. 18°. 



Marchand, Leon. Botanique cryptogamique pbarmaco- 

 medicate; programme raisonn^ d'un cours professe a I'ecole su- 

 perieure de pharmacie de Paris. Tom. i. Paris, Doin. 1883. 

 481 p. 8°. 



Milne-Edwards, Alphonse. Anatomic et physiologie anl- 

 males. Paris, Masson. 1883. 4+406 p. 311 fig. 18°. 



Mortillet, G.abriel de. Le prehistorique : antiquity de 

 rhomrae (Bibl. sciences contemp.). Paris, iieinwald. 1883. 

 642 p. 8°. 



Wew York. — Linnaean society. Transactions. Vol. i. 

 N.Y., Society. 1882. 168 p., portr. 1. 8°. 



Wiox, Comm. Geographic militaire. v. Europe orientale et 

 hassin de la Meditorranee. le partie ; peninsule des Balkans. 

 Paris, Baudoin. 1882. 8+231 p. 18°. 



O'Donovan, E. The Merv oasis. Ti-avels and adventures 

 east of the Caspian during 1879-81, including five months* resi- 

 dence among the Tekkes of Merv. 2 vol. N.Y. 1883. illustr. 8°. 



Pharmaceutische rundschau und zeitung fur die wissen- 

 sehaftlichen gewerblichen interessen der pharmacie und ver- 

 wandten berufs- und geschiiftszweige in den Vereinigten Staaten ; 

 herausg. von Dr. Fr. Hoflmann. Bd. i. no. i. N. Y. 1883. 28 

 p.,m. 4°. 



Pioger, L. M. Dieu dans ses oeuvres; les splendeurs de I'as- 

 tronomie, ou II y a d'autres mondes que le notre. Paris, Uaton. 

 1883. 18°. 



La lune. 4+315 p. 



Le soleii. 8+373 p. 



Poitevin, A. Traite des impressions photograpbiques, 

 Suivi d'appendices relatifs aux procedes, par M. Leon Vidal. 

 2e id. Paris, Gauthier- Villars. 1833, 14+280 p., portr. 18°. 



Proctor, R. A. The great pyramid, observatory, tomb and 

 temple. N.Y., Worthington. 1883. 8+323 p. illustr. 12°. 



Bawlinson, G. The religions of the ancient world, includ- 

 ing Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, 

 Etruria, Greece, Rome. N.Y., Scribner. 1883. 12+249 p. 

 illustr. 12°. 



Bociias, Albert de. La science des philosophes et I'art des 

 thaumaturges dans I'antiquite. Paris, Masson. 1883. 220 p. 

 24 pi. 8°. 



Selvatico, Silvestro. Sur le diveloppement embryonnaire 

 des bombyciens. Traduction par J. Pelletan. Paris, Doin. 1883. 

 31 p., 7 pi. 8°. 



Tissandier, Gaston. Les martyrs de la science. 2e dd. 

 P-M-ia, JJreyfous. 1883. 334 p., 34 pi. 8°. 



Tyndall, J. He.at as a mode of motion. Xewenl.ed. N.Y., 

 Appletun. 1SS3. illustr. 12°. 



U.S. — Corps of engineers U.S. army. Professional papers, 

 no. 24. Primary trianguliition of the lake survey; by Lieut. - 

 Col, C, B. Comstock, U.S.A. Wash., Oovernment. 1882. 920 

 p. 4°. 



■Waldmann, F. Der bernstein im alterthum; historisch- 

 philologische skizze. Felhn. 1883. 87 p. 4°. 



"Wharton, W. J. L. Hydrographical surveying; a descrip- 

 tion of the means and methods employed in constructing marine 

 charts. London. 1882. S°. 



Yung, Emilc. Le sommeil norm.al et le sommeil patholo- 

 giqtie; magnetisme animal, hypnotisme, nevrose hist^nque. 

 (Bibl. biol. intern.) Paris, X>om. 1883. 196 p. 18°. 



