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abundant Latinisms, ambiguous phrases, and 

 awkward statements reveal that this process 

 has not been very successfully accompliBhed in 

 the present instance. 



Joseph Jastrow. 

 University of Wisconsin. 



books eeoeived. 



Plane Trigonomelry. Daniel A. MURRAY. New 

 York, London and Bombay. Longman's Greeen & 

 Co. 1899. Pp. xiii + 95. 



Irrigntion and Drainage. F. H. KiNG. New York 

 and London, The Macmillan Company. 1899. 

 Pp. xxi + 502. $1.50. 



Tlie Logical Bases of Education. J. Welton. Lon- 

 don and New York, The Macmillan Co. 1899. 

 Pp. xvi + 288. $1.00 



Muscle, Brain and Diet. Eustace H. Miles. Lon- 

 don, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. New York, The 

 Macmillan Company. 1900. Pp. xv f 339. 



Ehmentary Chemistry. Albert L. Arey. New 

 York and London, The Macmillan Co. 1899. 

 Pp. xl + 271. 90 cents. 



Plant Structures. John M. Coulter. New York, 

 D. Appleton & Co. 1900. Pp. ix + 343. 



Central Station Electricity Supply. Albert Gay and 

 C. H. Ybaman. London, Wittaker & Co. New 

 York, The Macmillan Co. 1899. Pp. xiil + 467. 

 $3.00. 



Water and Water Supplies. John C. Thresh. 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Blakiston's .Sons,& Co. 1900. 

 Pp. XX + 43B. $2.00. 



A Textbook of Physics. W. Watson. London, New 

 York and Bombay. 1899. Pp. xii + 896. S3.00. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 

 The New York Botanical Garden has begun 

 the publication of a monthly journal to contain 

 notes, news and untechnical articles of general 

 interest. It is edited by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, 

 director of the laboratories, and is sent free to 

 members of the Garden. The first number, con- 

 taining sixteen pages, opens with an article on 

 theMuseumbuildingby Dr. N.L. Britton, with a 

 plate, and this is followed by short unsigned 

 articles on 'Cooperative Forestry,' 'Etiolated 

 Plants as Food,' ' Micorhizas of Orchids' and 

 ' Colors. ' At the end there are notes on re- 

 cent accessions to the Gardens and on other 

 subjects of botanical interest. The New York 

 Botanical Garden now has four series of publi- 



cations. The Journal just mentioned, the Bul- 

 letin, containing official documents and technical 

 articles. Memoirs and Contributions, the latter 

 being reprints from other journals. 



The December number of the Bulletin of the 

 American Mathematical Society contains a report 

 of the October meeting of the Society, by the 

 Secretary ; ' Note on the Simply Transitive 

 Primitive Groups,' by Dr. G. A. Miller ; 'On the 

 Commutators of a given Group,' by Dr. G. A. 

 Miller; a review of Oltramare's ' Calcul de 

 Generalization,' by Professor E. O. Lovett ; 

 'Shorter Notices'; 'Notes'; ' New Publication.' 

 The January number of the Bulletin contains 

 the Presidential Address of Professor R. 8. 

 Woodward. ' The Century's Progress in Pure 

 Mathematics,' delivered at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Society, December 28, 1899 ; ' The 

 Status of Imaginaries in Pure Geometry,' by 

 Professor Charlotte Angas Scott ; ' Notes ' ; 

 'New Publications.' 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON. 



At the 94th meeting and 7th annual meeting, 

 held December 13, 1899, the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: President, 

 Whitman Cross; Vice-Presidents, J. S. Dilller, 

 C. W. Hayes ; Treasurer, M. R. Campbell ; 

 Secretaries, F. L. Ransome, David White; 

 Members- at-large of the Council, G. P. Merrill, 

 Bailey Willis, A. H. Brooks, Waldemar Lind- 

 gren, G. O. Smith. 



The 95th regular meeting was held January 

 10, 1900. Under informal communications Mr. 

 G. P. Merrill exhibited and briefly described 

 a nepheline-melilite-basalt from Rocky Hill, 

 Oahu, where it had been found in place by 

 Professor C. H. Hitchcock. It was stated that 

 while a rock of this type had been previously 

 described by Wichmann and others from frag- 

 ments brought by vessels as ballast, this was, 

 it was believed, the first discovery of the rock 

 in place. 



Under the regular program the following 

 papers were presented : 



(1) Mr. Joseph A. Taff : ' Structural Features 



