January 22, 1892.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The bar of Nernier, or at least its upper surface, has at one time 

 formed part of a moraine. A bathymetrical map accompanies 

 the article from which this note is taken. 



— Mr. Edgar Richards, who, for the past four and a half years, 

 has been in charge of the chemical laboratory connected with the 

 Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington, D.C , having been per- 

 emptorily directed by his physician. Dr. F. Delafleld of this city, 

 to abstain from all work for some months in the department, has 

 been forced to resign his position, as the Commissioner of Internal 

 Eevenue refused to grant him leave of absence in which to rest. 

 Thus the government loses an efficient and faithful officer. Mr. 

 Richards sails on the 33d of January, by the " Werra," for southern 

 Europe, where he will remain for several months before returning 

 to this country. 



— From some further surface and bottom temperatures recently 

 taken by Commander Boulton, R.N. , in Lake Huron, A. T. 

 Drummond, in this month's Record of Science, concludes that the 

 Georgian Bay forms a great cold water basin, somewhat isolated, 

 mot only by its physical surroundings but in the temperature of its 

 water, from the central basin of the lake; that the temperature 

 of its bottom does not, even in summer, rise beyond about 

 39.3°; and that the flow of cold water from Lake Superior into 

 Lake Huron is divided by the position of the islands in the St. 

 Mary's River and along the north shore of Lake Huron, a part 

 flowing to the Georgian Bay by the north channel, between the 

 Maniloulin Islands and the north shore of the lake, thus keeping 

 up the supply of cold water, whilst another part passes through 

 the Detour and the neighboring channels into the central basin of 

 the lake, but instead of mingling there with the warmer waters 

 from Lake Michigan, appears to flow easterly and south-easterly, 

 forming a barrier to the easterly extention of these warmer Michi- 

 gan waters, and cutting off the Georgian Bay from their influence. 

 In the same journal, Mr. Drummond also refers to a series of tem- 

 peratures taken by him during last August in the Yamaska River, 

 Province of Quebec, in order to trace the extent of the influence 

 which water temperatures have upon the surrounding air, and, 

 inferentially — in the case of large bodies of water — ujion the agri- 

 cultural capabilities of the neighboring land. The tests were not 

 suflSciently varied as to time and place to, as yet, warrant definite 

 conclusions, but it can be said in general terms that such rivers, 

 which in winter, in the Canadian climate, are paved with two or 

 mc*e feet of ice, have, in the early days of August, a temperature 

 of 76" to 77° F. ; that the air in direct contact with the warm sur- 

 face of the water has in that month its temperature raised to from 

 1° to 5° above that of the air directly above, but in more exposed 

 positions ; and that this increase of temperature, which is greatest 

 at the point of contact, is at one foot above the sui'face already to 

 a considerable extent lost. 



— Harper & Brothers announce a new and revised edition of 

 Autenrieth's valuable "Homeric Dictionary," translated by Pro- 

 fessor Robert P. Keep. The present revision has been performed 

 by Professor Isaac Flagg of the University of California, whose 

 name alone is a guarantee of its excellence. Almost every Amei'- 

 ican Greek scholar of reputation has also aided in the work by 

 suggesting corrections or helpful additions, and no effort has been 

 spared to adapt the volume perfectly to the needs of American 

 and Engli.'ih students. Several important changes of considerable 

 value have also been made. They will publish shortly in the 

 Queen's Prime Ministers series " The Marquis of Salisbury," by 

 H. D. Traill. 



— A volume entitled "The Dog in Health and in Disease," by 

 Dr. Wesley Mills, and published by D. Appleton & Co., discusses 

 in detail the history of all the varieties of dogs, their breeding, 

 education, and general management in health, and treatment in 

 disease. The book is adapted for both the veterinarian, to whom 

 the medical care of dogs is usually confided, and the general 

 reader whose interest may be limited to that involved in the owner- 

 ship of a single animal. The writer is professor of physiology in 

 the faculty of Veterinary Science of McGill University, Montreal, 

 the author of "Comparative Physiology" and other standard 



works on allied topics; and is further qualified for his task by the 

 fact that he has, as he states in his preface, " for the greater part 

 of his life studied this noble animal with pleasure and profit to his 

 own nature." The volume contains a large number of illustra- 

 tions related to the text, and is further embellished by portraits of 

 various dogs of note of many breeds. ' 



— Charles Scribner's Sons announce that the first two volumes 

 to be published in the Great Educators Series will be ' ' Aristotle, 

 and the Ancient Educational Ideals," by Thomas Davidson, and 

 ' ' Loyola, and the Educational System of the Jesuits," by the Rev. 

 Thomas Hughes of Detroit College. The next volume, the fifth, 

 in the University Extension Manuals will be ' ' French Literature," 

 by H. G. Keene of Oxford. They have just published "Ten Cen- 

 turies of Toilette," translated from the French of A. Robida by 

 Mrs. Cashel Hoey, and uniquely illustrated in colors and in black 

 and white by the author. The unexpected delay in the publica- 

 tion of Edward Whymper's "Travels Amongst the Great Andes 

 of the Equator " has been due to the unusual care and thorough- 

 ness with which the author is revising the proofs before allowing 

 the book to go to pre"ss. It is thought, however, that the book 

 will be ready for publication in a few weeks. 



— Longmans, Green, & Co. are about to publish a new work in 

 two volumes on "The Human Mind," by James Sully, of which 

 the author says in a communication to Mind : " The present work 

 is an expansion and further elaboration of the doctrine set forth 

 in the author's ' Outlines of Psychology.' Although the mode of 

 arrangement and of treatment will in the main be found to be 

 similar, the book may be described as a new and independent 

 publication. It is specially intended for those who desire a fuller 

 presentment of the latest results of psychological research than 

 was possible in a volume which aimed at being elementary and 

 practical. Hence much more space has been given to the new 

 developments of ' physiological ' and experimental psychology, to 

 illustrations of psychological principles in the phenomena of racial 

 and animal .life, of insanity and hypnotism. At the same time, 

 an effort has been made to illustrate the obscurity and debatable- 

 ness of many of the problems of the science, and to aid the reader 

 in arriving at a judicial conclusion on these points by historical 

 references to the main diversities of doctrine. In this way it is 

 hoped that the treatise will find its proper place beside the ' Out- 

 lines.' " 



— D. Appleton & Co. will publish immediately the third volume 

 of Professor J. B. McMaster's "History of the People of the 

 United States." The second volume closed with the negotiations 

 regarding the Louisiana purchase. In the new volume, which 

 contains ten chapters. Professor McMaster begins with the discus- 

 sion regarding the constitutionality of the Louisiana purchase. 

 The first chapter includes a careful presentation of the manners, 

 customs, and special characteristics of the people of New Orleans, 

 and the connection of the New England leaders and of Burr with 

 the Louisiana question. The second chapter treats of the results 

 of the Louisiana purchase, the conspiracy of Aaron Burr, his ex- 

 pedition in the Ohio Valley, and his arrest and trial. The third 

 chapter is devoted to the conduct of the public lands from 1776 to 

 the establishment of the Territories of Illinois and Michigan. The 

 fourth chapter, entitled " The Spread of Democracy," describes 

 the extension of the franchise, the relations of the people and the 

 judiciary, and the presidential campaign of 1804. The fifth chap- 

 ter, which has for its heading the old cry of "Free Trade and 

 Sailors' Rights," is principally devoted to foreign relations, from 

 the Barbary War to the pa -sage of the embargo. The sixth chap- 

 ter treats of the " Long Embargo," and closes with the inaugura- 

 tion of Madison. After a chapter on subsequent events, called 

 "Drifting into War," the author pauses for a. description of the 

 progress of the people since 1784, showing the changes, political, 

 economical, and social, the development of means of commu- 

 nication, the building up of manufactures, the arguments for pro- 

 tection, the relations of the people to the slavery question, and the 

 Seminole War. In the closing chapter the author pictures the 

 preparations for the War of 1813 and its disastrous opening, with 

 the surrender of Hull at Detroit The volume contains two maps, 

 an index, and an elaborate table of contents. 



