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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 1. 



of Faith of a Man of Science, by Dr. Ernst 

 Haeckel ; Life at the Zoo, by C. J. Cornish ; 

 a new edition of S. Thompson's Electricity 

 and Magnetism and Mental Development in the 

 Child and in the Race, by J. Mark Baldwin. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCEENOES. 



J. A. Matthews, Notes on Carborundum. 

 Bashfoed Dean, On the collections of Fossil 



Fishes at Berea, New London and Delaware, 



Ohio. 

 L. McI. Luquee, TJie Relative effects of Frost 



and Sulphate of Soda Efflorescence as shown 



by Tests of Building Stone. 



J. F. Kemp, Secretary. 



THE TOEEEY BOTANICAL CLUB. 



B. D. Halstbd, Abnormalities in Plants Due 

 to Fungus Parasites. 



Heney H. Rusby, Seeretary. 



AMEEICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTEICAL 



ENGINEERS. 



LuDWiG GuTMANN, On the Production of Ro- 

 tary Magnetic Fields by a Single Alternating 

 Current. 

 In the absence of the author, the paper will 



be presented in abstract by Dr. M. I. Pupin. 

 A meeting of "Western members will be 



held the same evening at Chicago, where 



the paper will be read by the author. 



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SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 

 THE AMEEICAN NATURALIST. 



Quarternary Time Divisible in Three Periods, 



the Lafayette, Glacial, and Recent : "Warren 



"Cpham. 

 The Homologies of the Uredinea ( The Rusts) : 



Charles E. Bessey. 

 On the Evolution of the Art of Working in 



Stone; a preliminary paper by J. D. Mc- 



Guire: Charles H. Read. 



Zoology in the High School: Clarence M. 

 Weed. 



Editorials; Recent Books and Pamphlets; Re- 

 cent Literature. 



General Notes: — Petrography; Geology and 

 Paleontology; Botany; Zoology; Entomology; 

 Archeology and Ethnology. 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 



the physical review. 



Frontispiece : portrait of Professor von Helmholtz. 



Studies of the Lime Light : Edward L. Nich- 

 ols and Mary L. Crehore. 



A Study of the Residual Charges of Condensers 

 and their Dependence upon Temperature: 

 Frederick Bedell and Carl Kinsley. 



A General Theory of the Gloiv-Lamp II. : H. 

 S. "Webee. 



Minor Contributions ; Notes ; Neiu Books. 



bulletin of the AMEEICAN MATHEMATICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



On the Choup of Holoedric Transformation of a 

 Given Group into Itself: E. Hastings 



MOOEE. 



On the Non-Primitive Substitution Ch'oups of 

 Degree Ten : G. A. Miller. 



Briefer Notices ; Notes ; New Publications. 



NEW BOOKS. 



Popidar Lectures and Addresses. "Vol. II., 

 Geology and General Physics. Sir W. 

 Thompson. London and New York. 

 Macmillan & Co. 1894. Pp. x., 599. 



Light. Elementary text-book; theoretical and 

 practical. R. T. Glazebrook. Cambridge 

 University Press. New York. Macmillan 

 & Co. 1894. Pp. vii., 213. $1.00. 



Manual of Physico- Chemical Measurements. By 

 "WiLHELM OsTWALD. Trans, by James 

 Walker. London and New York. Mac- 

 millan & Co. 1894. Pp. xii., 255. $2.25. 



Electricity One Hundred Years Ago and To-day. 

 Edwin J. Houston. New York. W. J. 

 Johnson & Co. 1894. Pp. 199. $1.00. 



