128 EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Annihilation of the Mind, by Prof. John Trowbridge; the First "Popular 

 Scientific Treatise," by Prof S. P. Langley; the Ball-Paradox, by Thomas 

 S. Crane, C. E., illustrated; Laboratory Endowment, by Prof. F. W. Clarke; 

 the Origin and Curiosities of the Arabic Numerals, by D. Y. T. Qua; the 

 Scientific Labors of William Crookes, with portrait; Correspondence; Edi- 

 tor's Table: International Copyright — the Order of Nature, etc.; Literary 

 Notices: Smith's Notes on Life Insurance— Ferrier's Functions of the Brain 

 — Barrett's Carlyle Anthology — New Encyclopaedia of Chemistry, etc.; Pop- 

 ular Miscellany: Tyndall and Eoberts on Spontaneous Greneration — the 

 Phenomena of Hypnotism — Further Experiments with Putrescible Fluids 

 — a Solar Distillery — Meteorological — Preservation of Ice in the Sick Eoom, 

 etc; Notes. 



CIray's Atlas of the United States and the World. Published by Mil- 

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This is the most complete and comjirehensive atlas we have ever seen, 

 ■comprising, as it does, over eighty imperial folio pages, showing counties, 

 towns, river, lakes, mountains, railroads, canals, etc. There are six maps 

 of the United States alone, showing separately the railroad system, the cli- 

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 ■care is taken to show clearly and fully the physical details of other coun- 

 tries, while the letter-press comprises a general description of the world, its 

 form, density, temperature, meteorology, etc., etc., together with a climato- 

 logical description of the United States, by Lorin Blodgett; a goelogical 

 -description by Prof Chas. H. Hitchcock, etc., etc., besides distance, popula- 

 tion and other statistical tables and reports of all kinds. Persons in need 

 of a new atlas can hardly hope to find a better one than this, and the price 

 is very reasonable, considering the size and quality of the work. 



Publications Eeceived. — Mineral Eesources west of the Eocky Moun- 

 tains, 1875; Seventh Annual Eeport of E. W. Raymond, United States Com- 

 missioner of Mining Statistics; Eighth Annual Eeport on the Noxious, 

 Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of Missouri, by Charles Y. Eiley, 

 State Entomologist; The American Meteorologist, February, 1877, Prof J. 

 H. Tice, editor, St. Louis, Mo.; Popular Science Monthly, April, 1877, Apple- 

 ton & Co., New York; Boston Journal of Chemistry; Address before the St. 

 Louis Academy of Science, by C. Y. Eiley, St. Louis, Mo.; The Miami Re- 

 publican^ Paola, Kas.; Bates County Record^ Butler, Mo. 



