Febeuaey 23, 1900.] 



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Cydopedia of American Horticulture. L. H. Bailey 

 assisted by Wilhelm Miller and many expert 

 Cultivators and Botanists. In 4 volumes. New 

 York, The Macmillan Company. 1900. Vol. I. 

 A.-D. Pp. xxii + 509. $5.00. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



American Chemical Journal, January, 1900. 

 ' On the Molecular Eearrangement of o-Amino- 

 phenylethyl Carbonate to o-Oxyphenylure- 

 thane,' by J. H. Ransom. ' Diazocaffeine,' by 

 M. Gomberg. ' The Action of Ethyl Iodide on 

 Tartaric Ester and Sodium Ethylate,' by J. E. 

 Bucber. This number also contains a note on 

 ' Improvements in the Manufacture of Sul- 

 phuric Acid.' 



February, 1900. ' On Some Abnormal Freez- 

 ing-point Lowerings produced by Chlorides 

 and Bromides of the Alkaline Earths,' by H. 

 C. Jones and V. J. Chambers. ' The Prepara- 

 tion of Pure Tellurium,' by J. F. Norris, H. 

 Fay and D. W. Edgerly. The authors first 

 prepared pure basic nitrate and then prepared 

 the tellurium from this. ' The Reduction of 

 Selenium Dioxide by Sodium Thiosulphate,' by 

 J. F. Norris and H. Fay. ' Action of Picryl 

 Chloride on Pyrocatechin in Presence of Al- 

 kalies,' by H. W. Hillyer. 'Camphoric Acid,' 

 by W. A. Noyes. 'On the Rearrangement of 

 Imido-esters,' by H. L. Wheeler. ' The Double 

 Halides of Antimony with Aniline and the 

 Toluidines,' by H. H. Higbee. ' On the Ran- 

 cidity of Fats,' by I. Nagel. A note on 'The 

 Wax of the Bacillariacese and its Relation to 

 Petroleum.' J, Elliott Gilpin. 



The American Naturalist for January is a little 

 late in making its appearance, but its contents 

 may excuse the delay. The first article, by 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, is a most important 

 contribution to the .subject of ' Intercentra and 

 Hypapophyses in the Cervical Region of Mosa- 

 saurs. Lizards and Sphenodon,' and is well 

 illustrated. Ales Hrdlicka describes in some 

 detail the ' Arrangement and Preservation of 

 Large Collections of Human Bones for Pur- 

 poses of Investigation,' and A. D. Mead has an 

 article ' On the Correlation between Growth 

 and Food Supply in Starfish,' in which he 

 shows that starfishes of the same age may 

 vary greatly in size. E. H. Eaton discusses 



' The Zoology of the Horn Expedition ' to Cen 

 tral Australia, and its bearing on the faunal 

 aflBnities and geologic changes of Australia, 

 and Henry Fairfield Osborn notes ' A Gla- 

 cial Pot- Hole in the Hudson River Shales near 

 Catskill, N. Y.' John H. Lovell in ' The Vis- 

 itors of the Caprifoliaceae,' describes the struc- 

 tural peculiarities of various genera and species 

 of the honeysuckle family and notes the species 

 of insects which he has observed to visit them, 

 supplementing his notes by the observations of 

 others. There is a large number of reviews, 

 particularly of zoological papers. 



The Journal of the Boston Society of Medical 

 Science for January opens with an article by 

 Harold C. Ernst on ' Instruction in Bacteriology 

 in the Medical Schools of America and Europe,' 

 giving an analysis of the replies received from 

 ninety-eight institutions to a circular letter of 

 inquiry. The remainder of the number is de- 

 voted to abstracts of papers presented at the 

 meeting of the American Public Health Asso- 

 ciation, Section of Bacteriology and Chemistry, 

 held October 30, 1899. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADE3IIES. 

 SCIENCE CLUB OF THE UNIVEEBITY OP "WIS- 

 CONSIN. 



At a special meeting of the Science Club of 

 the University of Wisconsin, on the evening of 

 January 24th, Mr. T. C. Chamberlin, of the 

 University of Chicago, addressed the Club on 

 ' Some recent studies of fundamental problems 

 in geology. ' Mr. Chamberlin was for five years 

 president of the University of Wisconsin, and 

 a large audience gathered to greet him and 

 to listen to his admirable presentation of an 

 exceedingly diflScult subject. By reason of 

 the fact that many of his hearers were not 

 specialists in science, the address was semi-pop- 

 ular, and by special request of the president of 

 the Club, Mr. C. R. Van Hise, it treated par- 

 ticularly of Mr. Chamberlin's well-known 

 studies in this field. These studies have already 

 engaged his attention for a number of years 

 and are not yet completed. Some of the most 

 important conclusions reached by Mr. Chamber- 

 lin were given to his audience as he explained 

 'in confidence to his friends,' as they are not 



