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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 3. 



rian) ; Recent Science, Prince Krapotkin 

 {Dee. Nineteenth Century'). 



Nature has reprinted (Dec. 13 and 20) 

 in full the interesting address on Endoio- 

 ment for Scientific Research and Publication 

 given by Mr. Addison Brown before the 

 Scientific Alliance of New York, and pub- 

 lished in the Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for 1892. 



Mr. Kumagusii Minakata has written, in 

 view of the claims of priority recently made 

 by two English ■m-iters, a letter to Nature 

 (December 27), calling attention to the use 

 of ' finger-prints ' as a means of signing 

 documents and identification in the laws 

 and usage of China and Japan as early as 

 650 A. D. 



The Naturtoissenschaftliehe Rundschau is 

 publishing in its current numbers an ac- 

 count of the sixty-sixth Versammlung der 

 Geselkchaft deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte, 

 held last j^ear in Vienna. 



FOETHCOMING PUBLICATIONS. 



Following the publication of H. M.Ward's 

 translation of Hartig's Text-book of the Dis- 

 eases of Trees, the same publishers (Messrs. 

 Macmillan & Co. ) announce as nearly ready 

 three other unportant translations: Ratzel's 

 Volkerkunde, translated by A. J. Butler; 

 the article Construction from Viollet le 

 Due's Dictionnaire raisonne de I' architecture 

 francaise, translated by Gr. M. Duss, and 

 Paulsen's Universities of Germany, translated 

 by E. D. Perry, of Columbia College. 



There will be issued this month as a 

 supplement to The Psychological Review a 

 Bibliography of Psychological Literature for 

 189Jf, compiled by Dr. Livingston Far- 

 rand, of Columbia College, and Mr. Howard 

 C. Warren, of Princeton College. The 

 bibliographjf will include so far as possible 

 all books, monographs and articles in Psy- 

 chology, and those publications in philo- 

 sophy, biologjr, anthropology, neurology 



etc., which are impoi-tant for psychology. 



An Ann'ee Psychologigue, edited by Profes- 

 sor Alfred Binet, will be issued in March. 



Messes. Macmillan & Co., announce for 

 early publication A Rural Science Series, 

 edited by Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cor- 

 nell University. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 

 THE BOTANICAL GAZETTE, DEC. 



Contribution to the comparative histology of pul- 



vini and the resulting photeolic movements. 



( With plate XXXIV.) F. D. Heald. 

 Two new ferns from New England : Geoege E, 



Davenpoet. 

 Some notes on the Legmninosce of Siam : Glenn 



Culbeetson. 

 Briefer Articles; Editorial; Current lAtera- 



ture ; Notes and News ; General Index. 



THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EEVIEW, JAN. 



Hermann von Helmholtz and the New Psychol- 

 ogy: C. Stumpf. 



The Theory of Emotion (II.) ; The Significance 

 of Emotions : John Dewey. 



The Muscidar Sense and its Localization in the 

 Brain Cortex: M. Allen Staee. 



A Location Reaction Apparatus: G. W. Fitz. 



Discussion : — Paul Shoeey ; H. M. Stan- 

 ley; H. R. Maeshall ; E. B. Titch- 

 enee. 



Psychological Literature ; Notes. 



THE ENGINEEEING MAGAZINE, JAN. 



Silver Coinage Historically Considered: H. D, 



McLeod. 

 Modern Theories as to Electricity: Heney A. 



Rowland. 

 The Drainage System of the Valley of Mexico : 



Hon. M. Romero. 

 Practical Hints for City Officials: E. C. Gaed- 



nee, Lewis M. Haupt. 

 Selecting Motive Power for a New Plant: 



Chaeles E. Emeey. 

 Plumbing Trade Schools and Their Influence : 



E. IST. G. LeBois. 



