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SCIENCE. 



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illustration, and his subject is one that cannot be made exactly 

 entertaining; but all who are interested in the practical working 

 of our public-school system will like to read his book. 



AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



The Alvarenga prize of the College of Physicians of Philadel- 

 phia, consisting of one year's income of the bequest of the late 

 Sefior Alvarenga of Lisbon, has been awarded to Dr. R. W. Philip 

 of the Victoria Dispensary for Consumption and Diseases of the 

 Chest, Edinburgh, for his essay on pulmonary tuberculosis, which 

 will be published by the college. 



— Harper & Brothers have just ready "The Aztec Treasure 

 House," by Thomas Janvier, who, in the form of romance, gives 

 the result of many years of unremitting labor, and furnishes re- 

 liable facts regarding Yucatan and Mexico, put together with his 

 special knack at artistic color in word-painting. 



— In consequence of his having been appointed sole agent in 

 America for the Religious Tract Society's publications, Fleming 

 H. Revell announces the following periodicals published by the so- 

 ciety: The Leisure Hour, The Sunday at Home, The Boy's Own 

 Paper, The QirVs Own Paper. 



— "A Stox'y of Damon and Pythias," by A. Cressy Morrison, 

 has been issued by the, Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, 

 Wis. This little book will interest many of our readers, espe- 

 cially as it is illustrated with a half-dozen views, admirably re- 

 produced, of scenes on the Island of Sicily. Doubtless copies can 

 be had on application to the publishers. 



— D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, will add to their series of Ger- 

 man texts in a few days, "Selections from Heine's Poems, "edited, 

 with an introduction and notes, by Horatio S. White, professor of 



the German language and literature in Cornell University. This 

 volume will embrace selections not only from the more familiar 

 "Buch der Lieder," but also from Heine's later and posthumous 

 poems, an examination of which is essential to complete the pic- 

 ture of his matured genius. 



—We learn from Nature of July 3 that Messrs. Mawson, Swan, 

 & Morgan propose to issue a lithographed facsimile of an old 

 manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and household recipes, 

 which was discovered some years ago among the papers belong- 

 ing to the old firm of Gilpin & Co., chemists. Pilgrim Street, 

 Newcastle. Careful examination, in which some of the curators 

 of the British Museum have assisted, shows that the manuscript 

 dates from about the time of Queen Elizabeth, additions having 

 been made from time to time, in various handwritings, up to the 

 middle of last century. 



— Messrs. Macmillan & Co. have nearly ready for publication 

 two works of great interest to students of ornithology, both of 

 American origin. The first is a treatise on the "Myology of the 

 Raven," intended as an introduction to the study of the muscular 

 system in birds, by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. The second is a revised re-issue, in one volume of conven- 

 ient size, of the very valuable monographs on field ornithology 

 and on general ornithology, which were prefixed to Dr. Elhott 

 Coues's monumental "Key to North American Birds." Part I., 

 on field ornithology, contains the necessary instructions for the 

 observation and collection of birds in the field, and for the prepa- 

 ration and preservation of specimens for scientific study. Part 

 II. is a technical treatise on the classification, the zoological char- 

 acters, and the anatomical structure of the class of birds, in which 

 the examples cited in illustration of the principles of ornithology 

 have for the most part been re drawn by the author from British 

 instead of American birds. 



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Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should care- 

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