

SCIE 



A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



PUBLISHED BY N. D. C. HODGES, 8T4 BEOADWAY, NEW YOEK. 



Tenth Year. 

 Vol. XX. No. 504. 



SEPTEMBER 30, 1892. 



3^ 'iiNGLE Copies, Ten Cents. 

 «f,wg- ^ER Year, in Advance. 



Contents. 



The Effects op Civilization on Our Birds. 



Morris Gibhs 



The Duck Islands. Levi W. Mengel 



Preparation of Teachers of Science as 

 Carried Forward in the Michigan State 



Normal School. E, A. Strong 



Notes AND News 



The Fiction of thu American Horse and the 

 Truth on this Disputed Point. E. L. 



Trouessart 



Adaptation OF Seeds to Facilitate Germina- 

 tion. W. W. JRowlee 



Woman's Work for Wages. C R. Henderson . . 



Heredity. Julia Broicn Strode 



A Consideration op the Claims of Chemistry 

 as the Basis of Modern Agriculture. 



Frank T. Shutt 



The Real Motions op the Fixed Stars. A. W. 



Willia7nson. . , 



Letters to the Editor. 



The Ancient Libyan Alphabet. D. G. Brinton 

 Twins Among the Indians on Puget Sound. 



M. EeUs 1< 



Prevention of Cholera Asiatica. Hugh Ham- 



ilton V. 



A Large Southern Telescope. Edward C. 



Pickering 1! 



Maltunne Tunne Measures. J. Owen Dorsey. 11 



Omaha Arrow-Measure. J. Oiven Dorsey 1! 



Book Reviews. 



Elementary Text-Book of Entomology. R. 



W. Sh ufehlt ]! 



Primitive Man in Ohio li 



Entered at the Posi-Offlce of New Yorfc, N.Y., as 



Second-Class Mail Matter. 



192 



THE LABRADOR COAST. 



A JOURNAL OF TWO SUMMER CRUISES 

 TO THAT REGION. 



WITH NOTES ON ITS EARLY DISCOV- 

 ERY, ON THE ESKIMO, ON ITS PHY- 

 SICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND 

 NATURAL HISTORY, TOGETHER WITH 

 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS, ARTI- 

 CLES. AND CHARTS RELATING TO 

 THE CIVIL AND NATURAL HISTORY 

 OF THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



By ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD, ffl.D.,Pli.D. 



Sportsmen and ornithologists will be interested in 

 the list of Labrador birds by Mr. L. W. Turner, 

 which has been kindly revised and brought down to 

 date by Dr. J. A. Allen. Dr. S. H. Scudder has con- 

 tributed the list of butterflies, and Prof. John 

 Macoun, of Ottawa, Canada, has prepared the list of 

 Laorador plants. 



Much pains has been taken to render the bibliog- 

 raphy complete, and the author is indebted to Dr. 

 Franz Boas and others for several titles and impor- 

 tant suggestions : and it is hoped that this feature of 

 the book will recommend it to collectors of Ameri- 

 cana. 



It is hoped that the volume will serve as a guide 

 to the Labrador coast for the use of travellers, 

 yachtsmen, sportsmen, artists, and naturalists, as 

 well as those interested in geographical and histori- 

 cal studies. 



513 pp., 8°, $3.50. 



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