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but in the present case the lay reader will be 

 agreeably rewarded if his curiosity leads him 

 to open the pages of the memoir, by the ad- 

 mirable and interesting series of reproductions 

 from photographs of Antarctic scenery which 

 appear upon the plates. The charts, as might 

 be expected, are of the first class. 



Wm. H. Dall. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 

 The June number (volume 12, number 9) of 

 the Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society contains the following articles: 'Ee- 

 port of the April Meeting of the American 

 Mathematical Society,' by F. N. Cole; ' Ke- 

 port of the April Meeting of the Chicago 

 Section,' by H. E. Slaught ; ' Groups in Which 

 All the Operators are Contained in a Series 

 of Subgroups such that any Two have only 

 Identity in Common,' by G. A. Miller; 'Note 

 on the Factors of Format's Numbers,' by J. 



C. Morehead ; ' Theoretical Mechanics ' (re- 

 view of Whittaker's Treatise on the Ana- 

 lytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid 

 Bodies; with an Introduction to the Problem 

 of Three Bodies), by E. B. Wilson; 'Some 

 Eecent Foreign Textbooks ' (Course in Prac- 

 tical Mathematics, by F. M. Saxelby; and 

 the following three books by Gustav Holz- 

 miiller: Die Planimetrie fiir das Gymnasium, 

 Methodisches Lehrbuch der Elementar-Mathe- 

 matik, Vorbereitende Einfiihrung in die 

 Raumlehre), by D. E. Smith; Notes; New 

 Publications. 



The July number (concluding volume 

 12) contains: 'Note on the Numerical 

 Transcendents S„ and s„ = '5„ — 1,' by W. 

 Woolsey Johnson ; ' On Certain Properties 

 of Wronskians and Related Matrices,' by 



D. E. Curtiss; ' Significance of the Term 

 Hypercomplex Number,' by J. B. Shaw ; ' How 

 Should the College Teach Analytic Geom- 

 etry ? ' by IT. S. White ; ' Four Boolis on the 

 Calculus ' (Schroder's Die Anfangsgriinde der 

 Differentialrechnung und Integralrechnung ; 

 Fricke's Tlauptsiitze der Differential- und 

 Integralrechnung; Junker's Repertorium und 

 Auf gabensammlung ; Thomae's Sammlung von 

 Formeln und Satzen aus dem Gebiete der 

 elliptischen Funktionen), by H. E. Slaught; 



Shorter Notices (Stolz and Gmeiner's Einlei- 

 tung in die Funktionentheorie ; Bortolotti's 

 Lezioni sul Calcolo degli Infinitesimi; Vah- 

 len's Abstrakte Geometrie), by Oswald Veblen, 

 (Cunningham's Quadratic Partitions), by J. 

 C. Morehead; Errata; Notes; New Publica- 

 tions; Fifteenth Annual List of Papers Read 

 before the Society and Subsequently Pub- 

 lished ; Index to Volume 12. 



Bird-Lore for May-June contains arti- 

 cles on 'The Whip-Poor- Wills,' by A. D. 

 Whedon ; ' Stray Birds at Sea,' by F. M. Ben- 

 nett ; ' Photographing a Bluebird's Nest by 

 Reflected Light,' by E. W. Hegner, and ' The 

 Amount of Science in Oology,' by Thos. H. 

 Montgomery, Jr. This article deprecates the 

 ordinary collecting of eggs and calls attention 

 to the small amount of really valuable work 

 done by ' oologists ' ; oddly enough no men- 

 tion is made of Nathusius and his studies of 

 the microscopical structure of eg'g shells. 

 There is the sixteenth paper, entirely devoted 

 to statistic of dates of arrival, on the ' Migra- 

 tion of Warblers,' by W. W. Cooke. 



The section devoted to the Audubon So- 

 cieties gives a resume of the various laws en- 

 acted, or that failed to pass, by various state 

 legislatures during the past session. The 

 ' leaflet ' contains an account of the rose- 

 breasted grosbeak. 



The Museums Journal of Great Britain for 

 May is largely devoted to a discussion of ' The 

 Eelation of Provincial Museums to National 

 Institutions ' and is interesting reading even 

 if the matter does not apply to the United 

 States. Incidentally it gives some idea of the 

 work of the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

 From the notes we learn of the reinstallation 

 of the exhibition series of fishes in the British 

 Museum, the old, dried, dingy specimens hav- 

 ing been replaced by others colored from na- 

 ture. In the United States we believe the 

 Smithsonian Institution was the first to ex- 

 hibit a series of casts of fishes, colored after 

 nature, at the Exposition of 1876. Such casts, 

 and fishes mounted by Denton's methods, seem 

 to be the best methods of displaying fish at 

 present. The British Museum has also re- 

 cently placed on exhibition a group showing 



