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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The fo'.lowing is a list of the papers pub- 

 lislied, viz : 



1. Annual Eeport of the Committe on Geol- 

 ogy for the year ending November 1st, 1876, 

 by Prof. B. F. Mudge. 



2. Climate and Brains, by M. V. B. Knox. 



3. Bison Latifrons in Kansas, by Prof. B. 

 F. Mudge. 



4. Habits of Prairie Dogs, by H. 11. Brons. 



5. Habits of Amb'ychila Cylindriformis, by 

 H. H. Brons, 



6. The Waconda Meteorite, by Prof. G. E. 

 Patrick. 



7. The Ida Gas Well, by Prof. G. E. Pat- 

 rick. 



8. List of Colorado Coleoptera,by Prof. F. H. 

 Snow. 



9. L'st of Kansas Coleoptera, by Edwin A. 

 Popenoe. 



10. Centennial Catalogue of Plants of Kan- 

 sas, by Prof- J. H. CarruLh. 



11. Meteorological Summary for 1876, by 

 Prof. F. H. Snow. 



12. Locust Flights East of the Mississippi, 

 by Prof. C. V. Kiley. 



13. Additions to Kansas Mammalia, by M. 

 V. B. Knox. 



14. Influence of Food, sdection upon the 

 evolution of animal life, by Er. A. H. Thomp- 

 son. 



15. Evidence of Ancient Forests in Central 

 Kansas, by H. C. Turner. 



16. The Eiver Bluffs, by Prof. J. D. Parker. 



Intboduction and Succession of Verte- 

 brate Life in America, by Prof. O. C. 

 Marsh, Yale College. 57 pp. 

 This is an address delivered before the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, at Nashville, August 30, 1877, and 

 is probably the most complete and thorough re- 

 view of the subject that has ever been pub- 

 lished. Having received it but a day or two 

 since, we can only do it justice by postponing 

 its consideration until our next number. 



The October number of the American Na- 

 turalist opens with an interesting sketch of 

 "The Surface Geology of Eastern Massachu- 

 setts," by W. 0. Crosby ; " Pseudis, the Para- 



doxical Frog," by S. W. Garman, follows, with 

 an illustration. Edwin A. Barber, in his pa- 

 per "On the Ancient and Modern Pueblo 

 Tribes of the Pacific Slope of the United 

 State-s," endeavors to answer the enigmatical 

 que.stion, "Who are the architects of the ex- 

 tensive prehistoric stone structures which 

 abound in New Mexico, Arizona, and other 

 portions of the Southwest?" S W. Williston 

 discusses, con aviore, "The American Ante- 

 lope;" John A. Eyder touches closely upon 

 the Darwinian Philosophy ia his "Laws of 

 Digital Eeduction;" and David S. Jordon 

 closes the list of long papers, with a very com- 

 plete article "On the Distribution of Fresh- 

 water Fishes." The recent publications relat- 

 ing to Natural History are fully and carefully 

 reviewfd by the editor; — fourteen pages are 

 devoted to new discoveries and advances made 

 in the various sciences of Botany, Zoology, 

 Microscopy, etc., — the whole closing with Sci- 

 entific News and Proceedings of Societies. 

 Published by H. O. Houghton and Company, 

 Boston. Terms : $4.00 a year, 35 cents a num- 

 l;er. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Engineering and Mining Journal, New 



York; weekly 10c. 



Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering 



Magazine; monthly 50c. 



Popular Science Monthly, November 50c. 



Mines, Metals and Manufactures, St. 



Louis; weekly 10c. 



Science Observer, Boston ; monthly 25c. 



Weather Eeview, War Dept.; monthly 



American Naturalist, Boston ; monthly... 35c. 

 Scientific American, New York; weekly.. 10c. 

 Eemarks upon Sulphate of Quini», by Alex- 

 ander H. Jones. 

 Contributions to the Treatment of Pulmonary 



Phthisis, by W. Gleitzmann, M. D. 

 Biennial Eeport of the Mountain Sanitarium 



for Pulmonary Diseases, by W. Gleitzmann, 



M. D. 

 Programme of the American Association for 



the Advancement of Science, Nashville, 



Tenn., Tuesday, September 4, 1877. 

 Eeport of Bureau of Vital and Statistics, New 



York. 



