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ment in the typography, while the plates are also 

 more capacious. The whole result is a higher ex- 

 cellence in all the material qualities of the journal, 

 which is well matched by the worth and importance 

 of the articles. Professor Lankester has been most 

 successful in his management of this publication; 

 for, when he began, its value was so much inferior 

 to that it now has, that the progress is remarkable. 

 What was the not very important organ of amateui-s 

 has become a leading journal. 



— The death is announced, Dec. 7, of Mr. G. W. 

 Belf rage, an assiduous collector of insects in Bosque 

 County, Texas. 



— A n«4v natural history society has been organ- 

 ized at Trenton, N.J., with Prof. Ellis A. Apgar, 

 state superintendent of public instruction, as presi- 

 dent, and Dr. C. C. Abbott as secretary. 



— In the year 1800 there was founded at Paris a 

 society entitled ' La society des observateurs de 

 I'homme.' While no one would expect to find such 

 an organization invested with all the modern im- 

 provements, a i^erusal of their first instructions to 

 observers will both gratify and agreeably astonish the 

 student of to-day. The document appears in full in 

 the January number of the Revue W anthropologie, 

 filling twenty-two closely printed pages. 



— A plate reproducing the appearance of a part of 

 the relief-map of France, by E. Guillemin, is given in 

 La Nature, Jan. 6, 1883. 



— The scientific results of the fourth polar voyage 

 (1881) of tli6 'William Barents' are reviewed in 

 Ausland, 1883, 61-68. 



— Mr. Charles Henry Hart is the author of a 

 memoir on Lewis H. Morgan of Rochester, N.Y., 

 read before the Numismatic and antiquarian society 

 of Philadelphia, May 4, 1882, and published by the 

 society. The works of Mr. Morgan are briefly re- 

 viewed; but a bibliography, which would be of great 

 service to students of anthropology, is wanting. 



— In article 189 of our ' Summary,' the reading 

 should be: " as has been done by M. Marey in his 

 ' photographic gun,' " and not 'photographic sun.' 



RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 



Co7itinuaUo7is and brief papers extracted from serial litera- 

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 tions are made for annual reports of American institutions^ 

 nexoly established periodicals, and memoirs of considerable 

 extent. 



Buckley, A. B. Botanical tables for the use of students. 

 Sfev) ed. London, Stanford, 1883. 12°. 



Cameron, J. Gaelic names of plants, Scottish and Irish. 

 London, Blackwood, 1883. 8°. 



Dutton, Clarence E. Tertiary history of the Grand Cafion 

 district, with atlas. Wash., Government, 1882 (U. S. geol. surv. 

 — monogr. ii.). Text 264 p., 42 pi. 4°; atl.is 23 pi. f. 



) modernas de la fisica, unidad de las 

 Madrid, Gaspar, 1883. 238 p. 8°. 



Blectricldad (La.) — Ileviata general de sus progrceos 

 cientilicOH 6 industriales. Dir. Rojas, Aiia i. num. 1, Barcelona. 

 Bnero, 1883. 12 p. 4°. (Bimonthly.) 



Garrido VilUazan, A. — Topografia mllitar. Madrid, 

 Guirnalda,\m2. 135 p., 4 pi. 8°. 



Greer, Henry. A dictionary of electricity or the electrician's 

 hand-boolJ of reference. N".T., Allison, 1883. 192 p. 12°. 



Guillaume, Dr. L'eau du Seyon et la flevre typlioide il 

 Neuchatel. Rapport presents a la direction de I'int^rieur au nom 

 de la commission d'etat dc sante. Neuchatel, imp. Borel, 1882. 

 60 p., 1 pi. 8°. 



Heitzmann, C. Microscopical morphology of the animal 

 body in health and disease. With 380 original engravings. N.Y., 

 Vail, 1883. 19 -(- 849 p. 8°. 



Hoff er, R. Practical treatise of caoutchouc and gutta percha. 

 London, Low, 1883. 12°. 



Hopley, Catherine C. Snakes: curiosities and wonders of 

 serpent life. London, CW^Wj, 1883. 618 p. 8°. 



Hunziker, O. Die iibergangszeit des voiksschulwesens der 

 Schweiz. ZUrieh, Schulthess, 1883. 8°. 



Vorgeschichte und anfange des volkMschulwesens in 



der Schweiz. Ziirich, Schulthess, 1883. S°. 



Ija"wrence, W. T. Principles of. agriculture. Stage 1-2; 

 2-3. Edinburgh, Chambers, 1883. 



Marcet, W. The principal southern and Swiss health re- 

 sorts; tlieir climate and medical aspects. London, Churchill, 

 1883. 4US p. 8°. 



Marshall, G. F. L., and Niceville, L. de. — Butterflies of 

 India, Burma and Ceylon; all the known species of rhopalo- 

 cerous Lepidoptera, and allied species of neighbouring coun- 

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Martin, H. Newell, and Moale, William A. Handbook of 

 vertebrate dissection. Part. ii. How to dissect a bird. N.Y., 

 Macmillan, 1883. pp. 89-174. 4pl. 12°. 



McAdams, W. Antiquities of Cahokia, or Monks' Mound 

 in Madison County, Jllinois. Edwardsville, 111., 1883. 13 p., 

 plates. 4°. 



Mendive, Jose. Elementos de cosmologia. Valladolid, 

 Vimla, 1882. 150 p. 4°. 



Modet y Riglos, Andres. Ensayo sobrc el estableciraiento 

 y la conservacion del catastro en Espafia. Precedido de un pro- 

 logo de A. Blanco. Madrid, MuHllo, 1882. ]6-|r403 p., 3 pi. 4°. 



Nasmyth, J. Engineer; an autobiography; ed. by Sarai^ei 

 Smiles; with a portrait by George Reid and numerous illustra- 

 tions. London, Murray, 1883. 468 p. 8°. 



Newcomb, Simon. Popular astronomy. 2d ed. revised- 

 With 116 engravings and 5 maps of the stars. London, Macmil- 

 lan, 1S83. 696 p. 8°. 



Pinner, Adolph. Au introduction to the study of organic 

 chemistry. Transl. and revised from the fifth German edition 

 by Peter T. Austen. N.Y., Wiley, 1883. 19-1-403 p. 16°. 



PoCOCk, R. The Gravesend historian, naturalist, antiqua- 

 rian, botanist and printer; by George M. Arnold, hondon. Low, 

 1883. 276 p. 8°. 



Report of the Smoke abatement committee, 1882; with re- 

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 reports of the testing engineer, to which are ' added the official 

 reports on the Manchester exhibition, 76 plates of illustrations, 

 and 34 tables of results of tests of heating and cooking grates and 

 stoves, steam boilers, appliances, fuels, etc. Loudon, Smith tt S., 

 1883. 4°. 



Ridsdale, B. Scenes and adventures in great Naraaquuland. 

 London, Woolmer, 1883. 294 p. 8°. 



Ridsdale, C. H. Chemical percentage tables and labora- 

 tory calculation. London, ioctoood, 1883. SO p. 8°. 



Spencer, Herbert. Education, intellectual, moral, and phys- 

 ical. Jfew ed. London, Williams <& Margate, 1883. 168 p. 12°. 



Principios de sociologia, trad, por Eduardo Cazorla. 2 



torn. Madrid, Calleja, 1883. 164-488 p. 4°. 



Siwindell, J. G., and Burnell, G. R. Rudimentary trea- 

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 on the qualities of water. London, ZocAtooot?, 1883. 106 p. 12*. 



Townsend, F. — Flora of Hampshire, including the Isle of 

 Wight ; or a List of the flowering plants and ferns found in the 

 county of Southampton, with locahties of the less common spe- 

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 544 p. 8°. 



Triboulet, Maurice de. Cours de miniralogie genirale et 

 appliquee, profess^ a I'acaddraie de Neuchatel (1877-82). Neu- 

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West'WOOd, T. and Satchell, 'Y. — Bibliotheca piscatoria : 

 a Catalogue of books on angling, the fisheries and fish culture; 

 with bibliographical notes and an appendix of citations touch- 

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 1883. 410 p. 8°. 



■Williams, F. S. — Our iron roads; their history, construc- 

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 rev. London, Bemrose, 1883. 630 p. 8°. 



