SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XX. No. 505 



FIRST STEPS IN PHILOSOPHY. 



(PIiy»lcal and Etblcal.) 



By William Mackintire Salter, 



Author of "Ethical Religion." 

 Tliis little book aims to answer in a thoi-ough- 

 poing and solentiflc way two fundamental inquiries, 

 " What is Matter? and What is Duty? Clear notions 

 on these points constitute, in the author's judg- 

 ment, indispensable preliminary steps to any sound 

 thinking in philosophy. What degree of success he 

 attains his readers and critics must judge. He 

 aroids technical language and puts his thoughts in 

 simple and popular form; The book is not so much 

 for philosophers as for ordinary men and women 

 who are feeling their way to an intelligible and 

 satisfactory view of the world. 



Cloth, 16mo, 156 pages, $1-00, postpaid. 



Our Hereaity from God. Lectures on Evo- 

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It comes nearer being the hand-hook of evolution, 

 adapted to those who not only are looking for a clear 

 summary of the evidences of evolution in the iJhysical 

 world, but are anxious to know its hearings upon morals 

 and religion, than any hook we know ot.— Unity, Oliicago. 

 Altogether the book is the most cogent, candid, and 

 absorbingly Interesting of the many discussions ot this 

 momentous doctrine, by a thinker who both sees and 

 states clearly its tremendous import.— CJtxcaoo rimes. 



Ijiberty and Life. Seventeen discourses on 

 the applications of scientific truth to morals and 

 religion. By B. P. Powell. ISmo, 208 pages, cloth, 

 $1.00; paper, 50 cents. 



Strong, even, bold essays on ethical and religious sub- 

 jects. They are the work of a man of vigorous intellect, 

 who has studied the doctrine of evolution long and care- 

 fully, and has not found it necessary to abandon all his 

 old reverences. The discourses are full of interest to 

 the casual reader by reason of their fund of anecdote 

 and biographical citation, and to the seeker for religious 

 and moral truth they offer many helps.— iiteruri/ World, 



The Evolution of Immortality. Sugges 

 tions of an individual immortality based upon 

 our organic and life history. By <S. T. Stookwell. 

 Third edition, with appendix. Cloth, 13mo, 104 

 pages, 60 cents. 



A thoughtful little book, which considers the growth 

 of human being from embryologlcal and cell-life up to 

 the origin and evolution of consciousness, and. noting 

 at every step the anticipation of ihe next, is justified in 

 looking forward in the same line from the present point. 

 It is worth TesiAmg.— Atlantic Monthly. 



Kellglon and Science as Allies, or Simi 



larities of Scientific and Eeligious Knowledge 



By James Thompson Bixby, Ph.D. Paper, 13mo, 



226 pages, 80 cents; cloth, SO cents. 



The best book published on the relations ot science 

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We have felt mnch gratification in the perusal of Mr. 

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 able spirit and with a good general knowledge and ap- 

 preciation of philosophic data, and its rich suggestions 

 will be found to be by no means one of its least impor- 

 tant merits.— J>^ew Yorh Times. 



The Unending Genesis; or. Creation Ever 

 Present. By Henry M. Simmons. Paper, square 

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Here the story of the creation is told in a reverential, 

 loving spirit, showing clearly how evolution has been 

 going on for hundreds of centuries and must still go on, 

 and proving also how one overruling power works 

 through all, with a perfect and heautUul mathematical 

 precision.- Umty. * ■^.., 



Evolution and'ChrlstiaViity. A Study. By 

 J. 0. F. Grumbine. Cloth, square ISmo, 75 pages, 

 SO cents. 



Mr. Grumbine's statements are sound and well put. 

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 It is a helpful one, is thoroughly interesting reading, 

 and its presentation of the relation between evolution 

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The God of Science. By Francis Ellingwood 

 Abbot. Paper, 8vo, 16 pages, 10 cents. 



Evolution in Its Relations to Evangeli- 

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Titles of Some Articles Published in Science since 

 Jan. I, 1892. 



Aboriginal North American Tea. 



Actinism. 



Agriculture, Experimental, Status of. 



Amenhotep, King, the tomb ot. 



Anatomy, The Teaching of, to Advanced Medical 



Students. 

 Anthropology, Current Notes on. 

 Architectural Exhibition in Brooklyn. 

 Arsenical Poisoning from Domestic Fabrics. 

 Artesian Wells in Iowa. 

 Astronomical Notes. 

 Bacteria, Some Uses of. 

 Bird on Its Nest, The. 

 Birds Breeding at Hanover, N. H. 

 Botanical Laboratory, A. 

 Botanists, American and Nomenclature. 

 Brain, A Few Characteristics of the Avian. 

 Bythoscopldro and CereopidEe. 

 Canada, Koyal Society of. 

 Celts, The Question of the. 

 Chalicotherium, The Ancestry of. 

 Chemical Laboratory of the Case School. 

 Children, Growth of. 

 Collection of Objects Used In Worship. 

 Cornell, The Change at. 

 Deaf, Higher Education of the. 

 Diamonds in Meteorites. 

 Diphtheria, Tox-Albumln. 

 Dynamics, Fundamental Hypotheses of. 

 Electrical Engineer, The Technical Education of. 

 Eskimo Throwing Sticks. 



Etymology of two Iroquoian Compound Stems. 

 Kje-Hablts. 

 Eyes, Relations of the Motor Muscles of, to Certain 



Facial Expressions. 

 Family Traits, Persistency of. 

 Fishes, The Distribution of. 

 Fossils, Notice of New Gigantic. 

 Four- fold Space, Possibility of a Eealization ot. 

 Gems, Artificial, Detection of. 

 Glacial Phenomena lo Northeastern New Tork. 

 Grasses, Homoptera Injurious to. 

 Great Lakes, Urlgiu of the Basins of. 

 " Healing, Divine." 

 Hemlptert us Mouth, Structure of the. 

 Hofmann, August WUhelm von. 

 Hypnotism among the Lower Animals. 

 Hypnotism, Traumatic. 

 Indian occupation of New York. 

 Infant's Movements. 



Influenza, Latest Details Concerning the Germs ot. 

 Insects in Popular Dread In New Mexico. 

 Inventions In Foreign Countries, How to Protect. 

 Inventors and Manufacturers Association. 

 Iowa Academy of Sciences. 

 Jargon, The Chinook. 

 Jassidse; Notes on Local. 

 Keller, Helen. 



Klamath Nation, Linguistics. 

 Laboratory Training, Alms of. 

 Lewis H. Carvlll, Work on the Glacial Phenomena. 

 Lightning.New Method of Protecting Buildings from. 

 Lion Breeding. 



Llssajou's Curves, Apparatus for the Production of. 



Maize Plant, Growth and Chemical Composition of. 



Maya Codices, a Key to the Mystery of. 



Medicine, Preparation for the Study of. 



Mineral Discoveries, Washington. 



Museums, The Support of. 



Palenque Tablet, a Brief Study of. 



Patent Office Building, The. 



Physa Heterostropha Lay, Notes on the Fertility of. 



Plot's House, A. 



Pocket Gopher, Attempted Extermination of. 



Polarlscopes, Direct Reflecting. 



Psychological Laboratory at Toronto. 



Psjchologtcal Training, The Need of. 



Psylla, the Pear-Tree. 



Rain-Making. 



Rice-Culture in Japan, Mexico and the United 

 States. 



Rivers, Evolution of the Loup, in Nebraska. 



Scientific Alliance, The. 



Sistrurus and Crotalophorus. 



Star Photography, Notes on._ 



Star, The New, in Auriga. 



Storage of Storm-Waters on the Great Plains. 



Teaching of Science. 



Tiger, A New Sabre-Toothed, from Kansas. 



Timber Trees of West Virginia. 



Tracheis of Insects, Structure of. 



Vein- Formation, Valuable Experiments in. 



Weeds as Fertilizing Material. 



Weeds, American. 



Will, a Recent Analysis of. 



Wind-Storms and Trees. 



Wines, The Sophisticated French. 



Zoology in the Public Schools of Washington, D. C. 



JACK NUMBER* and complete setsof leading Mag- 

 l azines. Jiaies lew. AM. MAG. EXCHANGE, 

 Schohane N.V 



Some of the Contributors to Science Since Ja 



I, 1892, 

 Aaron, Eugene M., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Allen, Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Ashmead, Albert S., New York City. 

 Bailey, L. H., Cornell University, Ithaca, N. T. 

 Baldwin, J. Mark, University ot Toronto, Canada. 



Ball, v., C. B., LL.D., F.R.S., Dublin, Ireland. 



Barnes, Charles Reid, Madison, Wis. 



Baur, G., Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Beal, W. J., Agricultural College, Mich. 



Beals, A. H., Milledgevllle, Ga. 



Beauchamp, W. M., Baldwiosvllle, N.Y. 



Bell, Alexander Graham, Washington, D. C. 



Boas, Franz, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



BoUey, H. L., Fargo, No. Dak. 



Bolles, Frank, Cambridge, Mass. 



Bostwlch, Arthur E., Moutclalr, N.J. 



Bradley, Milton, Springfield, Mass. 



Brlnton, D. G., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Call, B. Ellsworth, Des Moines, la. 



Chandler, H., Buffalo, N.Y. 



Comstock, Theo. B., Tucson, Arizona. 



Conn, H. W., Middletowu, Conn. 



Coulter, John M., Indiana University. 



Cragin, F. W., Colorado Springs. Col. 



Cresson, Hilborne T., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Davis, W. M., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 



Dlmmock. George, Cauobie Lake, N.H. 



Dixon, Edward T., Cambridge, England. 



Farrington, E. H., Agric. Station, Champaign, 111. 



Perree, Barr, W ew York City. 



Fessenden, Reginald A., Lafayette, Ind. 



Flexner, Simon, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. 



Foshay, P. Max, Rochester, N.Y. 



Gallaudet, E. M., Kendall Green, Washington, D.C. 



Garman, S., Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



Gibbs, Morris, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



Golden. Katherine E., Agric. College, Lafayette, Ind. 



Grinnell, George B., New York City. 



Hale, Edwin M., Chicago, 111. 



Hale, George S., Boston, Mass. 



Hale, Horatio, Clinton, Ontario, Canada. 



Hall. T. Proctor, Clark University, Worcester. Mass. 



Halsted, Byron D., Rutg. Coll , New Brunswick, N.J. 



Haworth, Erasmus, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 



Hay, O. P., Irvington, Ind. 



Haynes, Henry W., Boston Mass. 



Hazen, H. A., Weather Bureau, Washington, D.C. 



Hewitt, J. N. B., Bureau of Ethnol., Washington, 



D. C. 

 Hicks, L. E., Lincoln, Neb. 

 Hill, E. J., Chicago, 111. 



Hill, Geo. A., Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. 

 Hitchcock, Romyn, Washington, D.C. 

 Holmes, E. L. Chicago, HI. 

 Hoskins, L. M., Madison, Wis. 

 Hotchkiss, Jed., Staunton, Va. 

 Houston, Edwin J., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Howe, Jas. Lewis, Louisville, Ky. 

 Hubbard, Gardiner G., Washington, D.C. 

 Jackson, Dugald C, Madison, Wisconsin. 

 James, Joseph F., Agric. Dept., Washington, D.C. 



Johnson, Roger B., Miami University, Oxford, O. 



Keane, A. H., London, England. 



Kellerman, Mrs. W. A., Columbus, O. 



Kelllcott, D. S., State University, Columbus, O. 



KeUogg, D. S., Plattsburgh, N. Y. 



Lintner, J. A., Albany, N. Y. 



Loeb, Morris, New York City. 



Mabery, Charles F., Cleveland, Ohio. 



Macloskie, Q., Princeton, N.J. 



McCarthy, Gerald, Agric. Station, Raleigh, N. C. 



MaoDonald, Arthur, Washington, D.C. 



MacGregor, J. C. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



MacRitchle, David, Easter Logie, Perthshire, Scot- 

 land. V • 



Marshall, D. T., Metuchen, N.J. 



Mason, O. T., Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C. 



Mill~paugh, Charles P., Morgantown, W. Va. 



Morse, Edward 8., Salem, Mass. 



Nichols, C. F., Boston, Mass. 



Nuttall, George H. F., Johns Hopkins, Baltimore 

 Md. 



Oliver, J. E., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



Osborn, Henry F., Columbia College, New York City. 



Osborn, Herbert, Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. 



Pammel, L. H., Agricultural Station, Ames, Iowa. 



PlUsbury, J. H., Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



Poteat, W. L.j Wake Forest, N. C. 



Preble, Jr., W. P., New York City. 



Prescott, Albert B., Ann Arbor. Mich. 



Riley, C. v., Washington, D. C. 



Rufiner, W. H., Lexington, Va. 



Sanford, Edmund C, Clark Univ., Worcester, Mass. 



Scripture, E. W., Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Seler, Dr. Ed., Berlin, Germany. 



Shufeldt, R. W., Washington, D.C. 



Slade, D. D., Museum Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



Smith, John B., Rutgers Coll., New Brunswick, N. J. 



Southwick, Edmund B., New York City. 



Stevens, George T., New York City. 



Stevenson, S. Y., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Stone, G. H., Colorado Springs, Col. 



Taylor. Isaac, Settrlngton, England. 



Thomas, Cyrus, Washington, D. C. 



Thurston, R. H., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



Todd, J. E., Tabor, Iowa. 



True, Frederick W., Nat. Mus., Washington, D.C. 



Turner, C. H., Univ. ot Cincinnati, Cincinnati, O. 



Wake, C, Stanlland, Chicago, 111. 



Ward, K. Dec, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. 



Ward, Stanley M.. Scranton, Pa. 



Warder, Roberts., Howard Univ., Washington, D.C. 



Welch, Wm. H., Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. 



West, Gerald M., Clark University, Worcester. Mass. 



Whitman, C. O., Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Williams, Edward H., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, Pa. 



