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is introduced is south-western Colorado, and, in particular, the 

 curious canons of the Mesa Verde, which have been only recently 

 explored and found unusually rich in abandoned homes of the 

 cliff-dwellers; one is also made acquainted with the beautiful 

 mountain scenery of the San Juan country, through which the 

 canon district of the Rio Mancos is approached from the north. 

 The introductory chapters present in brief the history of the 

 settlement of the south-west from the earliest Spanish explora- 

 tions to the recent Anglo-American occupation. Then follows 

 the personal narrative of the author's visits to the region, with a 

 detailed account of his researches. Mountain-climbers will find 

 the story of the ascents of Mount Suaefell and Uncompahgre 

 Peak of special interest. The work is profusely illustrated. The 

 180 pages of text are interspersed with some 60 full- page illustra- 

 tions, heliotypes, and ''half-tones." "The Land of the Cliff- 

 Dwellers " can be procured of the sales-agents of the Club, 

 Messrs. W. B. Clarke & Co., 340 Washington Street, Boston. 



— "American Mental Arithmetic'' is the title of one of the 

 American Book Company's latest school-books, by A. M. Bailey, 

 professor of Mathematics in the Kansas State Normal School at 

 Emporia, Kan. The designation " American" is doubtless given 

 to the volume from purely patriotic motives, as there is no ap- 

 parent reason why it would not be a good book to use in any 

 school where the English language prevails. Price, 35 cents. 



— Charles L. Webster & Co. announce that they have arranged 

 with Henry George for the publication of his new work, "A Per- 

 plexed Philosopher,'" being an examination of Mr. Herbert Spen- 

 cer's various utterances on the land question, with incidental refer- 

 ence to his synthetic philosophy. They have also arranged with 

 Mr. George for the control of his former books and will issue them 

 in a uniform edition. In "A Perplexed Philosopher " the main 

 argument is an examination of Mi\ Spencer's position on the land 

 question. In 1850 Mr. Spencer issued his first book, "Social 

 Statics," in which he denied the justice of the present treatment 



of land. Later he seemed anxious to minimize and explain away 

 these utterances, and finally he formally withdrew them. In his 

 last book, "Justice," the recants and opposes them. Mr. George 

 brings together and analyzes these various utterances. He also 

 directly attacks the Spencerian idea of evolution, — that is to say, 

 the idea of evolution that eliminates the spiritual element and 

 assumes that the hypothesis of an intelligent Creator is unneces- 

 sary. Mr. George argues in favor of the spiritual element in 

 evolution, and the necessity of an intelligent Creator. 



— "Induction Coils" is the title of a practical manual for 

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— Charles Scribner's Sons announce "Etruscan-Roman Re- 

 mains in Popular Tradition,'" by Charles Godfrey Leland. It is 

 only within a few years that Mr. Leland discovered what is now 

 for the first time published in this book, that there exists among 

 the peasantry of secluded mountain districts in Italy, as well as 

 among the numerous fortune-tellers or " witches" of the cities, 

 a vast amount of ancient Etruscan or Roman traditions of ex- 

 tremely varied and interesting character. That no scholars had 

 ever surmised the existence of this lore is due to the fact that it is 

 now in a great measure kept secret, as being strictly forbidden 

 by the priests, and connected with fortune-telling, which is pun- 

 ished by the law. It consists of a worship or invocation of the 

 ancient deities, in which the names and attributes of nearly all 



CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 

 Anthropological Society, Washington. 



Nov. 39. — Arthur MacDonald, Genius and 

 Insanity as forms of Abnormality ; W. H. 

 Holmes, Ancient Quarry men of South Moun- 

 tain; H. C. Mercer, Ancient Jasper Quarries 

 in Pennsylvania. 



Dec. 6.— Robert Fletcher, The Poet — is 

 He Born, Not Made? James Mooney, Report 

 of Special Committee on Aboriginal Geo- 

 graphic Names in the Potomac Region; 

 followed by Continuation of Symposium 

 upon same subject, by B. A. Colonna, John 

 W. Douglass, O. T. Mason, and others. 



Biological Society, Washington. 



Dec. 3.— B. W. Evermann, The Cruise of 

 the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Alba- 

 tross in Alaskan Waters in 1893; Geo. Vasey. 

 Some New Grasses; J. N. Rose, On the Re- 

 discovery of Certain Rare Plants; C. Hart 

 Merriam, Exhibition of a Complete Series 

 of the Large American Ground Squirrels of 

 the Subgenus Otospermophilus; B. E. Fer- 

 now, The Mathematics of Forest Growth. 



Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Dec. 7. — Leon S. Griswold, Some Indian 

 Quarries in Arkansas ; Roland TliBxter, 

 Notes on a New Order of Sohizomycetes 

 (Bacteria). 



Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston. 



Dec. 6. — A paper describing a trip through 

 the White Mountains, and illustrated with 



the lantern, was presented by a member of 

 the club, 



Deo. 14.— G. Frederick Wright, The Dis- 

 covery and Significance of the Glacial Out- 

 let from Lake Huron to the Ottawa River. 



Society for the Advancement of Science, 

 Las Graces, N.M. 



Dec. 1. — C. H. Tyler Townsend, Notes on 

 the Occurrence of the Puma (Felis concolor 

 L.) in Southern Mew Mexico; Hiram Eadley, 

 Alkali Soils; E. O. Wooton, Notes on the 

 Ferns of the Organs. 



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Williams, Geo. H. Geological Map of Baltimore 

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FOSSIL RESINS. 



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. 



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