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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. IV. No. 82. 



Large Scale Maps as Geographical Illustrations : 

 By W. M. Davis. The value of maps in geo- 

 graphic study has long been recognized, but it 

 has not always been so well stated as in the pres- 

 ent paper. Prof. Davis maintains that their 

 study endows the observer with a power that 

 could not even be gained by field work without 

 their aid, except by spending a long time on 

 the ground, and that work based on good maps 

 is as truly scientific asLoomis's famous studies. 

 He proceeds to describe a number of foreign 

 maps which are better than the average Ameri- 

 can maps, and have proved to be of especial 

 help in his own teaching. He also gives in- 

 formation where these maps can be bought, the 

 price and the results of experience as to the 

 best way to display and use them. D. P. N. 



THE MONIST. — JULY. 



In an article on Terminology, Prof. Eudolf 

 Eucken, of Jena, broadly sketches the charac- 

 teristic biographical features and vicisitudes of 

 scientific and philosophical terms, giving con- 

 crete examples in enforcement of his views, 

 and pointing out the immense advantages to be 

 derived from the systematic prosecution of this 

 study. In his plan of a colossal and exhaustive 

 thesaurus of scientific and philosophical terms 

 he characterizes the realization of the same as a 

 task eminently worthy of American scholarship, 

 wealth and enterprise. 



Prof. Fr. Jodl, recently called to a chair of 

 philosophy in Vienna, critically examines, in 

 his article on Causality, the views of David 

 Hume, which he regards as having dominated 

 all modern inquiry on this subject, including 

 Kant and the Kantians and the majority of 

 professional scientists. He then discovers the 

 origin of the notion of causality in our feeling 

 of personal effort and of our personal action 

 upon the external world, and considers it to 

 have found its rigorous justification in the 

 modern view of the transformation of energy 

 and matter. His article contains much psycho- 

 logical analysis. 



The second part of the series on Science and 

 Faith is by Dr. Paul Topinard, entitled Intro- 

 duction to Man as a Member of Society. Dr. 

 Topinard discusses his subject under two 

 heads : (I.) Preliminary Biological Data ; and 



(II.) The Animal Family; which are to be fol- 

 lowed by another article on Animal Societies. 

 He follows here the origin and course of devel- 

 opment of the solidarity of the organism and 

 of its representative ego, as also the origin and 

 development, in all its aspects, of the animal 

 family, which he regards as the outward termi- 

 nal phase of the process of the reproduction of 

 the species — a result which has been shaped to 

 this end by the exigencies of evolution. The 

 rise of the social instincts is also considered in 

 this paper, which is exhaustive and contains 

 the results of new inquiries by Topinard. 



The Holiness of Instinct, the title of the lead- 

 ing article, by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, is a plea 

 for the reinstatement of our natural instincts 

 as unerring criteria of conduct, and also a lit- 

 erary apotheosis of the beauty of life. 



The article by the editor. Dr. Paul Cams, on 

 The Problem of Good and Evil, opposes the idea 

 of a merely subjective existence of evil, which 

 he regards as a positive, objective aspect of 

 life, and concludes with a discussion of the 

 God idea and with a sketch of the significance 

 of the devil in history. 



The number concludes with the usual Liter- 

 ary Correspondence. Among the Book Re- 

 views are critical notices of Ostwald's pamphlet 

 on Scientific Materialism, Helmholtz' s Researches 

 in Mathematics and Mechanics, Grassman's Aus- 

 dehnungslehre, and Henry Clarke Warren's 

 Buddhism. 



NEW BOOKS. 

 U. S. Geological Survey ; liifteenth Annual Report, 

 1893-94.. J. W. Powell. Pp. xiv+755. 

 Sixteenth Annual Report, Part II. Papers 

 of an Economic Character, Pp. 598, Part III. 

 Mineral Resources of the United States Me- 

 tallic Products, Pp. 646, Part IV. Mineral 

 Resources of the United States, Non-Metallic 

 Products, Pp. 735. Charles D. Walcott. 

 Washington, Government Printing OfiB.ce. 

 1895. 



The Scenery of Switzerland. Sir John Lubbock. 



New York and London, The Macmillan Co. 



Pp. xxix+371. $1.50. 

 Mome and School Atlas. Alex. Everett Frye. 



Boston and London, Ginn & Co. 1896. 



Plates X. Pp. 48. 



