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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 13. 



De. a. Kossel has been made Professor 

 of Physiology in the University of Marburg. 



Dr. K. Boedeker, Professor of Chemis- 

 try in the University of Gottingen, died on 

 February 22d, aged seventy-nine years. 



Sir William Savory, an eminent sur- 

 geon, and at one time Professor of Compar- 

 ative Anatomy and Physiology at the Col- 

 lege of Surgeons, died on March 4th, at 

 London, in his sixty-ninth year. 



Dr. Georg von Gizycki, Associate Pro- 

 fessor of Philosophy in the University of 

 Berlin, died early in the present month. 



Dr. Darwin G. Eaton, formerly Professor 

 of Natural History in Packer Institute, died 

 on March 17th, at the age of seventy- two 

 years. 



Prof. Peter H. Vander Weyde, editor 

 of Manufacturer and Builder, and formerly 

 Professor in Girard College and at the 

 Cooper Institute, died at New York, on 

 March 18th, at the age of eighty-two years. 



Dr. Henry Coppee, Acting President of 

 Lehigh Universitj^, Professor of English Lit- 

 erature in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 1855 to 1866, and President of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, 1866 to 1875, died at Bethlehem on 

 March 21st, at the age of seventj'-five years. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 

 THE PHYSICAL REVIEW, MARCH-APRIL. 



Oil the Attractions of Crystalline and Isotropic 

 Masses at Small Distances : A. Stanley 

 Mackenzie. 



The Influence of Temperature upon the Trans- 

 parency of Solutions : Edward L. Nichols 

 and Mary C. Spencer. 



Determination of the Electric Conductivity of 

 Certain Salt Solutions: Albert C. Mac- 

 Gregory. 



The Apparent Forces between Fine Solid Parti- 

 cles Totally Immersed in Liquids, II: W. 

 J. A. Bliss. 



Minor Contributions; Neiv Boohs. 



THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, MARCH. 



In the Region of the New Fossil, Doemonelix : 

 Frederick C. Kenyon. 



The Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory : 

 H. W. Conn. 



Minor Time Divisions of the lee Age : Warren 

 Upham. 



The Skunk as a Source of Babies : W. Wade. 



The Classification of the Lepidoptera : Vernon 

 L. Kellog. 



Recent Literature; Recent Books and Pam- 

 phlets. General Notes: — Geography and 

 Travels ; Mineralogy : Geology and Palmon- 

 tology ; Botany; Zoology; Embryology; Psy- 

 chology ; Archceology and Ethnology. 



THE BOTANICAL GAZETTE, MARCH. 



Apparatus for Physiological Botany (With 

 plates IX.-XIL): W. C. Stevens. 



On the ' List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta 

 of Northeastern America : B. L. Eobinson. 



Flowers and Insects, XIII.: Charles Robert- 

 son. 



Noteivorthy Anatomical and Physiological Re- 

 searches. 



Briefer A7-ticles ; Editorial ; Current Literature ; 

 Notes and Neivs ; Supplement. 



NEW BOOKS. 

 Louisiana Folk- Tales. Collected and edited 



by Alcee Fortier. Boston and New 



York, published for the American Folk- 



Lore Society, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 



1895. Pp. xi+122. $2. 

 The Free Trade Struggle in England. M. M. 



Trumbull. 2d Edition. Chicago, The 



Open Court Publisliing Co. 1895. Pp. 



288. 35 cts. 

 Beitrdge zur Kentniss des Wesens der Sdcular- 



Variations des Erdmagnetismus. Louis A. 



Bauer. Berlin, Mayer «& Miiller. 1895. 



Pp. 54. M. 3. 

 Field, Forest and Garden Botany. Asa Gray. 



Revised and extended by L. H. Bailey. 



New York, American Book Co. 1895. 



Pp. 519. 



