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SCIENCE. 



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complete statistical and detailed account of tlie co?t of trips in 

 Europe and America. It promises to be a valuable guide-book 

 for Americans. 



Henry Holt & Co. will add immediately to Sneath's series of 



modern Philosophers, volumes extracted from Reid by Dr. Sneath 

 of Yale University ; from Spinoza, by Professor Fullerton of the 

 University of Pennsylvania; from Kant, by Professor Watson of 

 Queen's College, Canada; and from Descartes, by Professor Torrey 

 of the University of Vermont. They contemplate adding, in the 

 near future, volumes from Berkeley, Hume, and Hegel. 



— "The Basis of the Demand for the Public Regulation of 

 Industries " is the title of a monograph by the Hon. W. D. Dab- 

 ney, which has recently been published by the American Acad- 

 emy of Political and Social Science. There have been numbers 

 of plans suggested to remedy these evils, the most notable of 

 which is, probably, socialism. Mr. Dabney thinks that this plan 

 will not be adopted, but that government regulation of private 

 business will be tried as remedy for the existing evils of private 

 monopolies. 



— The Department of Astronomy of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences has just issued a " Hand-book of Astronomy 

 for 1893." The publication is in a new field, and is one that will 

 command general interest and constant use by a very large num- 

 ber of people who have considerable general knowledge of as- 



tronomy, and who desire to couple with information gained by 

 reading a practical knowledge from experience and observation. 

 The new publication is designed to aid in the observation of the 

 planets and the constellations every hour when they are visible 

 during the year 1892. The hand book will not only prove inter- 

 esting to the " amateur " astronomer, but also to those who are 

 working with instruments in observatories. It contains calendars 

 of the eclipses of the sun and moon, of the periods of the inferior 

 planets as morning and evening stars, and of the periods of the 

 greatest brilliancy and elongation of the planets, a selection of the 

 most important occultations of stars, calendars of the positions of 

 the sun, moon, and planets for each day of each month, brief ac- 

 counts of the opposition of Mars, of the evidence of Venus' rota- 

 tion, tables showing the motions and positions of Jupiter's satel- 

 lites, the names and positions of colored stars and double stars, 

 tables of the variable stars of long periods and of short periods, 

 accounts of the zodiacal light and the principal meteoric showers 

 of the year, together with a great deal of valuable information 

 concerning the satellites, the distances of planets and stars, the 

 lengths of the years of the planets and the weights and dimensions 

 of the members of the solar system. A calendar for the seasons 

 and the church calendar are convenient additions. Copies of the 

 hand-book may be purchased by members of the institute, or by 

 others interested in astronomy, at twenty cents per copy, includ- 

 ing postage. 



CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



Feb. 13.— Gardiner G. Hubbard, The His- 

 tory of the Education of the Deaf; A. W. 

 Greely, Some Peculiarities in the Rainfall 

 of Texas. 



Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Feb. 17.— George L. Goodale, Illustrations 

 of Vegetation in Ceylon. 



Publications received at Editor's Office. 



Bowser, Edward A. Elements of Plane and Solid 

 Geometry. 2d ed. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co. 

 ia°. 393 p. $1.35. 



Brockway, Fred J. Essentials of Medical Physics. 

 Phila., W. B. Saunders. 14°. 330 p. $1 net. 



Harvard College. Annual Reports of the Presi- 

 dent and Treasurer, 1890-91. Cambridge, The 

 University. 8°, paper. 294 p. 



Heupel, Walther. Methods of Gas Analysis. 

 Trans, from the German by L. M. Dennis. New 

 York, Macmillan & Co. 12°. 401 p. $1.90. 



LeFavel, Carrica. Delsartean Physical Culture. 

 New York, Fowler & Wells Co. 12°, paper. 108 p. 



McKlLLOP, DUGALD. Shorthand and Typewriting. 

 New York, Fowler & Wells Co. 13°, paper. 133 p. 



MuNRO, J. Heroes of the Telegraph. London, Re- 

 ligious Tract Society. 12°, 288 p. $1.40. 



Museum of Fine Arts. Catalogue of the Print De 

 partment. Boston, The Museum. 12°, paper. 

 98 p. 



Scott, W. The Lady of the Lake. Ed. by William 

 J. Rolfe. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16°, 

 paper. 273 p. 30 cents. 



Scribner's Magazine. Index to Vols. I-X. New 

 York, Charles Soribner's Sons. 8°. 89 p. 



Thurston, Robert H. A Manual of the Steam En 

 gine. Part II. Design, Construction and Opera- 

 tion. New York, John Wiley & Sons. 8°. 957 p. 



White, Charles E. Number Lessons. Boston, D. 

 C. Heath & Co. 12°. 201 p. 45 cents. 



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A PROFESSORSHIP in Chemistry is wanted by 

 one wlio has had five years' experience in that 

 capacity. Would prefer to give instruction by 

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ADDRESSES of Old Book Dealers wanted.— Wish- 

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 I very much desire the addresses or catalogues of 

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WANTED.— Books on the Magic Lantern. Will 

 exchange. "How the Farm Pays,''^ by Cozier 

 and Henderson; "Culture of Farm Crops." by 

 Stewart; "American Agriculturist," 1890 and 1891. 

 I. SLEE ATKINSON, 43 Wallace St.', Orange, N. J. 



WANTED,— (1) A white man versed in wood and 

 iron working, able to work from specifications 

 and plans, suited for an instructor of boys; his bus- 

 iness to have charge of shops of school, outline and 

 direct the work for foremen and students; salary to 

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 ^720. (8) A man (white) competent to take classes 

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Exchanges. 



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To exchange ; Experiment Station bulletins and 

 reports for bulletins and reports not in my file. I 

 will send list of what I have for exchange. P. H. 

 ROLFS, Lake City, Florida. 



Finished specimens of all colors of Vermont marble for 

 fine fossils or crystals. Will be given only for valuable 

 specimens because of the cost of polishing. GEO. W. 

 PERRY, State Geologist, Rutland, Vt. 



For exchange. — Three copies of ' ' American State 

 Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation," i8gi, $2.50, new 

 and unused, for ''The Sabbath,'* by Harmon Kingsbury, 

 1840; "The Sabbath," by A. A. Phelps, 1842: " History 

 of the Institution of the Sabbath Day, Its Uses and 

 Abuses," by W. L. Fisher, 1859; "Humorous Phases of 

 the Law," by Irving Browne; or other works amounting 

 to value of books exchanged, on the question of govern- 

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 and buy other books on the subject. WILLIAM AD- 

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Wanted, in exchange for the following works, any 

 standard works on Surgery and on Diseases of Children: 

 Wilson's "American Ornithology," 3 vols.; Coues' "Birds- 

 of the Northwest" and " Birds of the Colorado Valley," 

 2 vols.; Minot's "Land and Game Birds of New Eng- 

 land;" Samuels' " Our Northern and Eastern Birds;" all 

 the Reports on the Birds of the Pacific R. R. Survey, 

 bound in 2 vols., morocco; and a complete set of the 

 Reports of the Arkansas Geological Survey. Please give 

 editions and dates in correspondmg. R. ELLSWORTH 

 CALL, High School, Des Moines, Iowa. 



Wanted to buy or exchange a copy of Holbrook's 

 North American Herpetology, by John Edwards. 5 vols. 

 Philadelphia. 1842. G. BAUR, Clark University, 

 Worcester, Mass. 



For sale or exchange, LeCcnte, "-Geolc2:y;" Ouain, 

 "Anatomy," 2 vols ; Foster, "Physiology," Eng. edition: 

 Shepard, Appleton, Elliott, and Stern, "Chemistry; 

 Jordan, "Manual of Vertebr;>tes:" " International Scien- 

 tists' Directory;" Vol. I. Journal of Morphology : Bal- 

 four, "Embryology,'' 3 vols.; Leidy, '^RhizopO'^ " 

 Science, 18 vols., unbound. " " " 



Lexington, Ky. 



1.; j^eiuy* iviii^uLiuus, 



C. T. McCLINTOCK, 



To exchange Wright's " Ice Age in North America" 

 and Le Conte's "Elements of Geology" (Copyright 1882) 

 for "Dai-winism," by A R.Wallace. "Origin of Species," 

 by Darwin. "Descent of Man," by Darwin, "Man's 

 Place in Nature," Huxley, "Mental Evolution in Ani- 

 mals," by Romanes, "Pre-Adamites,'* by Winchell. No 

 books wanted except latest editions, and books in good 

 condition. C. S. Brown, Jr., Vanderbilt University, 

 Nashville. Tenn. 



For Sale or Exchange for books a complete private 

 chemical laboratory outfit. Includes large Becker bal- 

 ance (aoog to i-iomg ), platinum dishes and crucibles, 

 agate motors, glass-blowing apparatus, etc. For sale in 

 part or whole. Also complete file of SHHman's Journal, 

 1862-1885 (62-71 bound); Smithsonian Reports, 1854-1883; 

 U. S. Coast Survey. 1854-1869. Full particulars to en- 

 quirers. F. GARDINER, JR., Pomfret, Conn. 



