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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVll. No. 432. 



erly represented. The Journal of Oompara- 

 tive Medicine and Veterinary Archives is 

 mentioned but once in the catalogue, although 

 there were eighteen leading articles in which 

 bacteria were described as the cause of the 

 disease mentioned, and in some cases extensive 

 studies were given of the diagnostic and cul- 

 tural characters of the organisms. In the 

 American Veterinary Review, not noticed in 

 the catalogue, there appeared sixteen original 

 articles similar to the above. In the Medical 

 Dial, also not noticed, were nine leading arti- 

 cles treating of bacteriological studies, diag- 

 noses and bacterial investigations of water 

 supplies, milk, etc. The Medical Record, to 

 which there appear five references for the 

 whole year, contained in the issues from June 

 to December, twenty-two articles that one 

 would have expected to have found mentioned. 



Since this publication, having an American 

 representative, shows such an inadequate rep- 

 resentation of American literature, it can 

 hardly be wondered that so many European 

 investigators not having access to the original 

 publications are unacquainted with what is 

 done on this side. Omissions from the pres- 

 ent volume are to be included in the next, 

 according to a note in the catalogue, and it is 

 to be sincerely hoped that a greater effort 

 will be made to fairly represent our American 

 scientific literature. Walter H. Evans. 



Washington, D. C. 



bouhne's comparative anatomy of animals.* 

 The first volume of the two comprising 

 this work has already been noticed in this 

 journal (Science, Vol. XII., p. 311, 1900). 

 The present volume consists of a series of 

 somewhat detailed descriptions of the struc- 

 ture and ontogeny of selected types of ani- 

 mals, the whole being intended to fit students 

 for the preliminary and intermediate exam- 

 inations in the British universities. The 

 animals selected are the liverfluke (how this 

 is ccelomate does not appear), earthworm, 

 fresh-water mussel, snail, Apus, Astacus, cock- 

 * ' An Introdviction to the Study of the Com- 

 parative Anatomy of Animals,' by Gilbert C. 

 Boiirne. Vol. II., ' Tlie Coslomate Metazoa.' Lon- 

 don, George Bell and Sons, 1902, pp. xv -|- 321. 

 4s. ed. 



roach, Amphioxus, dogfish, frog, with a chap- 

 ter on other annelids and a final one on the 

 mammals. 



As a whole, the descriptions are clear and 

 accurate, and the seventy-seven illustrations 

 illustrative of the text. Particularly in- 

 structive is the cut (fig. 44) of the pharyngeal 

 region of Amphioxus. However, it is not well 

 adapted for use in American schools, for it 

 tells the student just those points which we 

 insist that he shall ascertain for himself, so 

 far as possible, from the specimen. As a 

 ' cram manual ' it would have a value. Lastly, 

 the title is misleading. The whole work is 

 descriptive, not comparative; in fact com- 

 parisons and broader features are rare in this 

 second part, which in many respects falls 

 short of the first volume. 



J. S. UlNGSLEY. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 

 The March number (Volume 9, No. 6) of 

 the Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society contains : Report of the ninth annual 

 meeting of the American Mathematical So- 

 ciety, by Professor F. ~N. Cole; Report of the 

 December meeting of the San Francisco Sec- 

 tion, by Professor G. A. Miller ; ' The abstract 

 group G simply isomorphic with the alterna- 

 ting group on six letters,' by Professor L. E. 

 Diclison ; ' Note on a property of the conic 

 sections,' by Professor H. P. Blichf eldt ; ' The 

 analytic theory of displacenients,' by Mr. R. W. 

 H. T. Hudson ; Notes ; New publications. The 

 April number of the Bulletin contains : Re- 

 port of the January meeting of the Chicago 

 section, by Professor T. P. Holgate ; ' Some 

 groups in logic,' by Professor E. W. Davis; 

 ' Cesaro's Intrinsic Geometry,' by Dr. Virgil 

 Snyder ; ' Gauss's Collected Works,' by Pro- 

 fessor James Pierpont ; ' Analytic projective 

 geometry,' by Dr. E. B. Wilson; Shorter no- 

 tices ; Notes ; New publications. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTOIf. 



The 562d meeting was held January 31, 

 1903. 



Professor A. N. Skinner, of the Naval Ob- 

 servatory, spoke by invitation on the ' Prog- 



