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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XVII. No. 424 



A NEW MONTHLY 



THE INTERNATIONAL 



JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE. 



THE JOUENAL OF THE 



POSTAL MICROSCOPICAL AND WESLEY 



NATURALISTS' SOCIETIES. 



Edited by ALFRED ALLEN and Rev. 



WILLIAM SPIERS. 



We have great pleasure in announc- 

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 to publish the journal monthly instead 

 of quarterly. For the present year, as 

 an experiment, the annual subscription 

 will remain the same as heretofore. 



CONTENTS OF MARCH NUMBER: 



British Earthworms, with litho plate. 



Aluminium. 



Prehistoric Man in Europe. 



The Divining Eod. 



The Dark Satellite of Algol. 



Phytopathology of the Diseases of Plants. 



Aspect of the Heavens — March. 



A Focussing Glass for the Photographic 



Camera. 

 The Evolution of Sex. 

 Science Jottings. 



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

 West, with litho plate. 



Laap. 



Byturus tomentosus. 



Ixodes ricinus. 



Hairs from Tarantula Spider. 

 Selected Notes from the Society's Note- 

 Books. 



Spiracles of Wire-worm. 



Chrysops caecutiens. 



Palate of Cyclostoma elegans. 



Aniline Blue Stain. 



Ferret Tick. 



Ixodes ricinus. 



Cidaris Spine. 



Pygidium of Flea. . 

 Wesley Scientific Society — Conversazione. 

 Montreal ^Canada) Microscopical Society. 

 Eeviews. 



$1 .75 Per Year. 



To Science subscribers, SI. 00 for one year. 

 " " '• 50 cents for six mos. 



^EW BOOKS. 



RACES AND PEOPLES. 



By DANIEL G. BRINTON, M.D. 



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

 the best accessible elementary ethnography 

 )ur 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 excellent one, and we can heartily 

 recommend it as an introductory manual of ethnol- 

 ogy. ' '— The Monist. 



"A useful and really interesting work, which de- 

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 and America." — Brighton CEng.) Herald. 



'•This volume is most stimulating. It is written 

 with great clearness, so that anybody can under- 

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 grasps very well the conij-lete field of humanity." — 

 Tlie Neio York Times. 



'■Dr. Brmton investshisscientlflc illustrations and 

 measuremfnts 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 fublic 

 Ledger. 



"The work is indispensable to the student who re- 

 quires an intelligent giiide to a course of ethno- 

 graphic reading."— P/i;7arfe/p/(;a Times. 



Price, postpaid, ©1,75. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 

 m PREPARATION. 



MEAI>Y SOOJSr. 



THE LABRADOR COAST. 



A Journal of two Summer 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. 



FOSSIL RESINS. 



By CLARENCE LOWN and HENRY BOOTH. 



'" This book is the result of an attempt to 

 collect the scattered notices of fossil resins, 

 exclusive of those on amber. The work is of 

 interest also on account of descriptions given 

 of the insects found embedded in these long- 

 preserved exudations from early vegetation. 



A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic 

 Description of the Native Tribes of North 

 and South America. This is the first at- 

 tempt ever made to classify all the Indian 

 tribes by their languages, and it also treats 

 of their customs, religions, physical traits, 

 arts, antiquities, and traditions. The work 

 comprises the results of several years of 

 study in this special field. 



Price, jjostpaid, ^2, 



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 nervou.= 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; 



OK, 



RODGHING IT WITH AN ECLIPSE PARTY. 



A. ROCHESTER FEL.LOW. 



CS. H. SCUDDER.) 



With thirty-two Illustrations and a Map. 

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Fact and Theory Papers 



I. THE SUPPRESSION OF CON- 

 SUMPTION. By GODFREY W. Hambleton, M.D. 

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II. THE SOCIETY AND THE " FAD." 

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III. PROTOPLASM AND LIFE. By 



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'■' Mr. (Jox reviews the history of his subject with, 

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IV. THE CHEROKEES IN PRE-CO- 



LUMBIAN TIMES. By Cykus THOMAS. 1-2°. SI. 



Dr. Thomas has already presented to the public 

 some reasons for believing the Oherokees were 

 mouud-builders, but additional evidence bearing 

 on the subject has been obtained. A more careful 

 study of the Delaware tradition respecting the Tal- 

 legwi satisfies htm that we have tu the Bark Record 

 (Walam Olum) Itself proof that they were Chero- 

 kees. He thluks 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. Au lllust atlon of 

 the reverse method ot dealing with prehistoric sub- 

 jects; 2. Incidental proof that some of the Indians 

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

 the light of the mound testimony. This work will 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? ' " — New York Times. 



"Professor Cyrus Thomas undertakes to trace 

 back the evidences of a single Indian tribe into the 

 prehistoric or mound-building age."— iV. Y. Sun. 



"An interesting paper."— C/irzsfmn Union. 



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VI. TIME-RELATIONS OF MENTAL 



PHENOMENA. By JOSEPH Jastrow. 12°. 50c. 



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 regard to the time required for the performance of 

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"The best monograph on home hygiene."— S^if. 

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In Preparation, 



VIII. THE FIRST YEAR OF CHILD- 

 HOOD. By J. Mark Baldwik. 



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



