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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XVII. No. 417 



A NEW MONTHLY 



THE INTERNATIONAL 



JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE. 



THE JOURNAL OF THE 



POSTAL MICROSCOPICAL AKD WESLEY 

 MTDRALISTS' SOCIETIES. 



Edited by ALFRED ALLEN and Rev. 

 WILLIAM SPIERS. 



We have great pleasure in announc- 

 ing to our readers that we have decided 

 to publish the journal monthly instead 

 of quarterly. For the present year, as 

 an experiment, the annual subscription 

 will remain the same as heretofore. As 

 the quantity of matter given is con- 

 siderably increased, it will be clear to 

 all that we can only maintain this per- 

 manently by an enlarged constituency. 

 "We trust, therefore, that our subscrib 

 ers will not only continue to give us 

 their support, but that they will also 

 make spirited efforts to obtain the sup- 

 port of others. An increase in the 

 number of subscribers would enable us 

 to introduce still further improvements. 



CONTENTS OF JANUARY NUMBER: 



To Our Readers. 

 Presidential Address 



Steps in our Knowledge of the Organic 

 World. 

 The Mountain Sphinx. 



Appendicularia, with its ' ' Haus, " Illustrated. 

 Koch' s Eemedy for Tuberculosis. 

 Aspect of the Heavens — January. 

 Half-an-Hour at the Microscope, with Mr. 

 Tuffen West. 



Foraminitera from Atlantic Soundings. 



Skin of Echinus. 



Lingual Eibbon of Cyclostoma elegans. 

 Correspondence . 

 Queries. 



Sale and Exchange Column. 

 Reviews. 



The Wesley Naturalists' Society. 

 Two Lithographic Plates. 



$1 .75 Per Year. 



To Science subscribers, $1.00 for one year. 

 " " " 30 cents for six mos. 



WETF BOOKS. 



RACES AND PEOPLES. 



By DANIEL G. BRINTON, M.D. 



"The book is good, thoroughly good, and will long 

 remain the best accessible elementary ethnography 

 in our language." — The Christian Union. 



""We strongly recommend Dr. Brinton''s 'Races 

 and Peoples ' to both beginners and scholars. We 

 are not aware of any other recent work on the 

 science of which it treats in the English language." 

 —Asiatic Quarterly. 



"His book is an escellent one, and we can heartily 

 recommend it as an introductory manual of ethnol- 

 ogy-"— 3'/ie Monist. 



"A useful and really interesting work, which de- 

 serves to be widely read and studied both in Europe 

 and America..''''— Bright07i (Eng.) Herald. 



"This volume is most stimulating. It is written 

 with great clearness, so that anybody can under- 

 stand, and while in some ways, perforce, superficial, 

 grasps very well the complete field of humanity/"— 

 Tlie New York Times. 



"Dr. Brinton invests his scientific illustrations and 

 measurements with an indescribable charm of nar- 

 ration, so that 'Races and Peoples.' avowedly a rec- 

 ord of discovered facts, is in reality a strong stim- 

 ulant to the imagination.'"— Philadelphia Puhlic 



"The work is indispensable to the student who re- 

 quires an intelligent guide to a course of ethno- 

 graphic reading." — Philadelphia Tivies. 



Price, postpaid, $1,76, 



THE MODERN MALADY ; or, Suf- 

 ferers from ' Nerves.' 



An introduction to public consideration, 

 from a non-medical point of view, of a con- 

 dition of ill-health which is increasingly 

 prevalent in all ranks of society. In the 

 first part of this work the author dwells on 

 the errors in our mode of treating Neuras- 

 thenia, consequent on the wide ignorance of 

 the subject which still prevails: in the sec- 

 ond part, attention is drawn to the principal 

 causes of the malady. The allegory forming 

 the Introduction to Part I. gives a brief his- 

 tory of nervoup exhaustion and the modes of 

 treatment which have at various times been 

 thought suitable to this most painful and try- 

 ing disease. 



By CYRIL BENNETT. 

 12", 184 pp., $1.50. 



THE WINNIPEG COUNTRY; 



OE, 



ROUGHING IT WITH AN ECLIPSE PARTY. 



BY 

 A. ROCHESTER FELIiOW. 



fS. H. SCUDDEB.) 



With thirty-two Illustratiops and a Map. 

 13°. $1.50. 



"The story Is a piquant, good-liumored, entertain- 

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 book is seldom seen."— Literary World. 



"This is a sprightly narrative of personal inci- 

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 many of rough experiences on a frontier which is 

 rapidly receding." — Boston Transcript. 



" The picture of our desolate North-western terri- 

 tory twenty-five years ago, in contrast with its 

 civilized aspect to-day, and the pleasant features of 

 the writer's style, constitute the claims of his little 

 book to present attention." — The Dial. 



READY IJ^ FEBHUABY. 



THE LABRADOR COAST. 



A Journal of two Sumiuer Cruises to that 

 region: with notes on its early discovery, 

 on the Eskimo, on its physical geography, 

 geology and natural history, together with 

 a bibliography of charts, works and articles 

 relating to the civil and natural history of 

 the Labrador Peninsula. 



By ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD, M.D., Ph.D. 

 8°, about 400 pp., $3.50. 



Fact and Theory Papers 



I. THE SUPPRESSION OF CON- 

 SUMPTION. By GODFBET W. Hahbleton, M.D. 

 12°. 40c. 



" The Inestimable importance of the subject, the 

 eminence of the author, and the novelty of his work, 

 all combine to render the little treatise worthy of 

 special consideration. . . . We heartily commend 

 Dr. Hambleton's booklet, and. wish there were more 

 such works."— Editorial, Boston Daily Advertiser. 



*• The monograph Is interesting in style, scholarly, 

 and well worthy of careful consideration. It is de- 

 void of technical espressions, and can he easily read 

 and digested."— P/tarmaceiifica/ Era. 



II. THE SOCIETY AND THE " FAD." 

 By Appleton Morgan, Esq. V^°. 20 cents. 



"Mr. Morgan founds a sensible and interesting 

 address upon a text furnished by a sentence from, 

 a young ladies' magazine ; namely, ' Browning and 

 Ibsen are the only really dramatic authors of their 

 century,' " — Neic York Sun. 



III. PROTOPLASM AND LIFE. By 

 C. F. COX. 12°. 75 cents. 



" To be commended to those who are not special- 

 ists."— CArisfian Union. 



" Physicians will enjoy their reading, and find in 

 them much food for thought.'' — St. Louis Medical 

 and Surgical Journal. 



" Mr. (Jox reviews tee history of his subject with 

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•■' It Is of extreme interest."— itfedicai Age. 



" Worthy ot a careful perusa'."— indzana Medical 

 Journal. 



"An interesting and popular account of the ten- 

 dencies of modern biological thought."— Poynt^ar 

 Science News. 



"All Interested In biological questions will find 

 the book fascinating."— P/tanymce^ff/ccr^ Era. 



" The author displays a very comprehensive grasp 

 of bis subject."— Pit&h'c Opinion. 



"Deserves the attention of students of natural 

 science. " — Critic. 



IV. THE CHEROKEES IN PRE-CO- 



LUMBIAN TIMES. -By Cykus THOMAS. 12*^. SI. 



Dr. Thomas has already presented to the public 

 some reasons for believing ttie Cherokees were 

 mound-builders, but additional evidence bearing 

 on the subject has been obtained. A more careful 

 study of the Delaware tradition respecting the Tal- 

 legwl satisfies him that we have In the Bark Record 

 (Walam Olum) Itself proof that they were Chero- 

 kees. He thinks the mounds enable us to trace back 

 their line of migration even beyond their residence 

 In Ohio to the western bank of the Mississippi. The 

 object is therefore threefold: 1. An lUust.ation of 

 the reverse method ol dealing with prehistoric sub- 

 jects; 2. Incidental peoof that some of the Indians 

 were mound- builders; 3. A study of a single tribe in 

 the light ot the mound testimony. This work wUl be 

 an Important contribution to the literature of the 

 Columbian discovery which will doubtless appear 

 during the coming two years. 



" A valuable contribution to the question, ' Who 

 were the mound-builders ? ' ^-^Neic York Times, 



*' Professor Cyrus Thomas undertakes to trace 

 back the evidences of a single Indian tribe into the 

 prehistoric or mound-buUdlng age."— iV^. Y. Suiu 



"An Interesting paper. ''''—Chi- istian Union. 



V. THE TORNADO. By H. A. Hazen. 



12°. $1. 



'' The little bobk Is extremely interesting."— jBos- 

 ton Transcript . 



'• A book which will find many readers. The 

 chapter on,' Tornado Insurance' is of Interest to 

 all property-holders in the tornado States.*"— .Bos^oti 

 Herald. 



" * The Tornado' is a popular treatise on an Impor- 

 tant province ot meteorology, in which science, the 

 author, Professor Hazen ot the United States Signal 

 Service, may be regarded as an e-KpevV^— Philadel- 

 phia Ledger. 



VI. TIME-RELATIONS^OF MENTAL 



PHENOMENA. By JOSEPH Jastbow. 12°. 50c 

 " All students of psychology will find the book full 

 of interesting facts. Professor Jastrow's good qual- 

 ities as a thinker and as a writer are too well aud 

 too widely known to require comment." — Public 

 Opinion. 



'' A useful work for psychologists — as weU as the 

 general reader— by setting forth in brief and easily 

 intelligible form the present state of knowledge In 

 regard to the time required for the performance of 

 mental acts."— Tfte Critic. 



VII. HOUSEHOLD HYGIENE. By 

 Mart Taylor Bissell. 12°. 75 cents. 



" A sensible brochure." — Brooklyn Eagle. 



"Practical and sensible."— P«6?tc Opinion. 



" The advice and excellent information which it 

 contains are tersely and intelligently expressed."— 

 Boston medical and Surgical Journal 



"■ Practical aud simply vTTittQU.''— Springfield Re- 

 publican. 



" The best monograph on home hygiene."— 5i. 

 Louis Globe-Democrat. 



In Preparation. 



VIII. THE FIRST YEAR OF CHILD- 

 HOOD. By J. Mark Baldwin. 



N. D. C. HODGES, 47 Lafayette Place, New York. 



