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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Amebic ,vn Journal of Science and 

 Akts, monthly; New Haven, November, 1S77; 

 90 pp. Price, tO.OO per annum; single num- 

 bers, 55c. 



We gladly add this veteran Scientific 

 Journal to our list of exchanges, it being 

 undoubtedly the most valuable periodical of 

 the kind in the United States and a high 

 authority in Great Britain and on the continent. 

 Its editors and proprietors are Professors 

 James D. Dana, B. Silliman and E. S. Dana, 

 assisted by Professors Asa Gray, Walcott Gibbs 

 and J. P. Cooke, Jr., of Cambridge ; Profes- 

 sors H. A. Newton, S.W.Johnson, G.J. Brush 

 and A. E. Verril, of New Haven, and Prof. 

 Geo. F. Barker, of Philadelphia, a greater ar- 

 ray of scientific talent probably than can be 

 found connected with any similar journal In 

 the world. The present number contains arti- 

 cles of marked interest and value by Profs. O. 

 C. Marsh, J. D. Dana, W. Pengelly, Chas. B. 

 Warring, J. W. Mallet and Simon Newcomb ; 

 with chapters of Scientific Intelligence on Chem- 

 istry and Physics; Geology and Mineralogy; 

 Botany and Zoology; Astronomy and Miscel- 

 lany, by the proper editors above named res- 

 pectively and other scientific writers and 

 workers. 



Popular Science Monthly, November, 



1877. 



As usual th's excellent magazine reaches us 

 promptly, and as usual is filled with carefully 

 written and intensely interesting articles. For 

 the general reading public there is no periodi- 

 cal published which seems to equal it so far as 

 as popular scientific artic'es are concerned. 

 Among the most interesting and valuable arti- 

 cles in the present number are The Growth of 

 the Steam Engine, by Prof. E. H. Thurston, 

 (illustrated) ; Modern Troglodytes, by Felix 

 L. Oswald, M. D.; Man and the Glacial Pe- 

 riod, by Thos. Belt, F. G. S , (Illustrated) ; 

 Eflfects of Study on the Eyesight, by Ward 

 McLean. Price, $5.00 per annum ; single 

 number, oOc. 



The Jewell, November, 1877; Vol. Ill 

 No. 1 ; Evans Bros., Liberty, Mo. 

 This is a collegiate magazine, published 

 by the Professors and students at William 

 Jewell College. It is devotfd to general 

 Literature and comes to us after a brief 

 suspension with an attractive and varied 

 table of contents. We wish it a most suc- 

 cessful career. Price, $1.50 per annum ; sin- 

 gle numbers, I5c. 



The New Yobk Medical Journal; Vol. 



XXVI, Number 5; pp 112; monthly. D. 



Appleton & Co. 



This long establisled and popular Medical 

 Journal is edited by James D. Hunter, M. D., 

 who is well known to the medical profession 

 as able and experienced physician and writer. 



The present number contains a large num. 

 ber of first class articles, one of which, from 

 the pen of Prof. Austin Flint, .Jr., we copy in 

 full, giving as it does the latest and most ex- 

 haustive experiments upon and investigation 

 of the causes of the apparent want of breath 

 at times when the lungs are full of air, as well 

 as accounting for various forncs of convulsions 

 and perhaps of epilepsy itself. The reports 

 of proceedings of societies, clinical observa- 

 tions and operations are very interesting. 



Price per annum, $4.00 ; single number, 40c> 



Bingley's Animal Kingdom ; Hubbard 



Bros., Philadelphia, 1877. 



This popular work is now being deliv- 

 ered in this place, the agent, Mr. L. L. 

 Boynton, having sold qtite a large num- 

 ber of copies among our citizens. It is an 

 excellent thing for teachers and heads of fam- 

 ilies for use in the instruction of children, ar d 

 is written in so attractive a manner as to be 

 interesting and instructive to the general read- 

 er of almost any age. 



