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the present century the Catholic Church held to the notion that 

 the earth does not move, and shows that certain Protestant sects 

 displayed much less wisdom by clinging to the antiquated delusion 

 even longer. " Eapid Transit " is the subject of the sixth of Car- 

 roll B. Wright's Lessons from the Census. It contains much in- 

 formation concerning operating expenses, relative economy of 

 motive powers, growth of mileage, etc. An interesting study of 

 "Involuntary Movements,'' by Professor Joseph Jastrow, will 

 appear. Experiments have been made in the psychological lab- 

 oratory of the University of Wisconsin which show the reality 

 and nature of the motions on which •'muscle-reading" depends. 

 Professor Jastrow's article is illustrated with tracings of such 

 movements, and with a figure of the simple apparatus employed 

 in taking them. " Tlie Great Earthquake of Port Royal," which 

 took place in 1693, will be described by Colonel A. B. Ellis. This 

 account corrects certain erroneous notions of the occurrence that 

 have long prevailed, and shows that tbe arrangement of the pres- 

 ent town invites a repetition of the catastrophe. The article is 

 illustrated. The last of the articles on musical instruments in 

 the series on the Development of American Industries will be pub- 

 lished in the April number. It is by Daniel Spillane, and traces 

 the evolution of the manufacture of "Orchestral Musical Instru- 

 ments " in America. The article is fully illustrated. 



— Charles Scribner's Sons will publish at once Edward Whym- 

 per's long-expected book, " Travels Amongst the Great Andes of 



the Equator," which was announced last fall, but which they were 

 unable to issue at that time. 'I'hey have in press a new " Hand- 

 book of Great Archaeology " (profusely illustrated), dealing with 

 vases, bronzes, gems, painting, sculpture, and architecture, by A. 

 S. Murray, keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities, British Mu- 

 seum. After a long delay Baedeker's " Upper Egypt " has at last 

 been published in English, and is imported by Charles Scribner's 

 Sons. It will be welcomed by all interested in that subject, 

 whether travellers or students. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. have published a book by the the- 

 osophist, Mr. A P. Sinnett, on "The Rationale of Mesmerism." 

 Mr. Sinnett is the author of "Esoteric Buddhism" and other 

 works on theosophy, and in the present volume he professes to- 

 account for the phenomena of mesmerism, or hyi^notism, on the 

 principles of so-caOed occultism. He begins by rebuking the 

 physicians and other scientific men for their refusal untd very 

 lately to study the phenomena in question or even to admit their 

 existence; and it must be admitted that the rebuke is well de- 

 served. The theories he advances to explain the phenomena are, 

 however, of a very unscientific character. He asserts the exis- 

 tence of a magnetic fluid and also of a third principle in the na- 

 ture of man, intermediate between the soul and the body, which 

 he calls the "astral" principle; and it is by these imaginary 

 agencies that he attempts to account for mesmerism, He tells us 

 that there is an astral body, which " is quite visible when detached 



CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 

 Biological Society, Washington. 



March 5. — Fred V. Coville, Conditions 

 affecting the Distribution of Plants in North 

 America; Charles Hallock, The Physiology 

 of a Poooson ; Vernon Bailey, The Homes 

 of Our M'ammals; Theo. Holm, The Flora of 

 Nova Zembla. 



Entomological Society, Washington. 



March 3.— C. W. Stiles, The Histology of 

 Ticks; T. N. Gill, The Larval Condition of 

 Insects an Intercalated Stage. 



Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston. 



March 9.— Isaac Y. Chubbuck, Up North 

 Tripyramid on Snow Shoes; Peroival Losvell, 

 An Ascent of Fuji. 



Publications received at Editor's Office. 



Armstrong & Norton. Laboratory Manual of 



Chemistry. New York, Ameriean Book Co. 8°. 



144 p. 50 cents. 

 Blair. J. A. The Organic Analysis of Potable 



Drinking Waters. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston. 



Son & Co. IS". ISO p. 

 Bowser, Edward A. Academic Algebra. Boston, 



D. C. Heath & Co. 12°. 366 p. $1.25. 

 Chisholm andLeete. Longmans' New School At- 

 las. New York. Longmans, Green & Co. Imp. 



8°. 38 Maps. $1.50. 

 Cornell University. Fourth Annual Report of 



Agricultural Experiment Station, 1891. Ithaca, 



The University. 8°. 499 p. 

 Dorsey, James O. Omaha and Ponka Letters. 



Washington, Government. 8°. Paper. 127 p. 

 Karrer Felix. Fuhrer durch die Baumaterial- 



Sammlungdes k. k. naturhistorischar Hofmu- 



seums in Wien. Wien, Eigenthum des Heraus- 



gebers. 12°. Paper. 355 p. 

 Orton, Edward. Report on the Occurrence of 



Petroleum, Natural Gas and Asphalt Rock in 



Western Kentucky. Frankfort, Geological Sur 



vey. 8°. 233 p. 

 Russell, Stuart A. Electric Light Cables. Lon- 

 don, Whittaker & Co. 12°. 332 p. m. S2.25. 

 Sinnett. A. P. The Rationale of Mesmerism. Bos- 

 ton, Houghton. Mifflin & Co. 16°. 232 p. 81.25 

 Taylor, J. Traill. The Optics of Photography 



and Photographic Lenses. New York, Macmil- 



lan&Co. 16°. 251 p. $1. 

 Thomas, Cyrus. Catalogue of Prehistoric Works 



East of the Rocky Mountains. Washington, 



Government. 8°. Paper. 246 p. 

 University op California. Riverside Addresses, 



1891. Berkely, The University. 16°. Paper. 



74 p. 

 Verity, John B. Electricity up to Date. New 



York, Frederick Wame & Co. 18°. Paper. 178 



p. 75 cents. 

 WiNSLOw, Arthur. Report on the Coal Deposits 



of Missouri. Jefferson City, The Geological 



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

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