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The Popular Science Monthly for August 

 presents a feast for all classes of readers, as 

 the following table of contents shows: The 

 Physiology of Exercise — II., by Emil du 

 Bois-Reymond; National Necessities and 

 National Education, by Benjamin Ward 

 Richardson, M. D., F. R. S. ; Acoustic 

 Architecture, by William W.Jacques, Ph. D. , 

 Progress of the Germ Theory of Disease, by 

 Prof. Tyndall; A Gigantic Fossil Bi d, by 

 Stanislas Meunier, (illustrated) ; 1 he Book- 

 Men, by Hon, T. Wharton CoUens ; About 

 Elephants, by Dr. Andrew Wilson, (illus- 

 trated); The Chemistry of Sugar, by Prof- 

 Harvey W. Wiley ; Transcendental Geometry; 

 by Alfred C. Lane; My Spider, by W. H. 

 T. Winter; Sudden Whitening of the Hair; 

 How Plants Resist Decay, by W. O. Focke; 

 The Topmost Country of the Earth, by 

 Lieut. G. Kreitler ; Sketch of Baron Adolf 

 Eiic Nordenskiold, (with portrait); Enter- 

 taining Varieties, Editor's Table, Literary 

 Notices, Popular Miscellany and Notes 



Professors Joseph Le CoNTE and W. B 

 Rising, of the University of California, have 

 been during the past six years investigating 

 the alleged present formation of metalbferous 

 veins in progress at Steam!>oat Springs, in 

 Nevada, and at Sulphur Bank, California, 

 and are now publishing their conclusions in 

 the American Journal of Science. That for 

 July, 1882, contains article second of the 

 preliminary discussion, and the final result is 

 promised in a later number. 



Mr, G. H. K1NOHA.N, in the London 

 Monthly Journal of Science for July, antago- 

 nizes Mr. Darwin's "Vegetable Mould and 

 Earthworms," by attempting to show that 

 several influences are more effectual than 

 worms in heaping up earth and mould upon 

 surface stones, viz. : ants, winds, vegetable 

 growth, etc. 



Among the most interesting articles in 

 Van Nostrancfs Engineering Magazine for 

 July, is one upon The Problem of Aerial 

 Navigation as affected by recent mechanical 

 improvements, by Wm. Pole, F. R. S., the 



conclusion being that "manageable balloons^ 

 may form a feasible and useful addition to 

 the present means of transport and are there- 

 fore worthy of the attention of the engineer. " 



Harpe>-'s Magazine for August is a brilliant: 

 number. It opens with a fine frontispiece, a. 

 fuU page illu-tration by Abbey, engraved by 

 Closson. We note especially two bright 

 Summer articles — both splendidly illustrattrd 

 — "Some Western Resorts," by John A. 

 Butler, and " The Cruise of the 'Nameless,'" 

 by Barnet Phillips. For hot weather reading 

 the description by Capt. J. W. Shackford,of 

 the "Icebergs and fogs in the Noith 

 Atlantic," will be found decidedly cooling. 



The American Antiquarian is now in its 

 fourth volume and is, both, fiom the fasci- 

 nating subjects treated of and the skillful 

 management of its editor, b;coming more 

 widely known arid better sustained with each 

 volume. 



From the catalogue of the University of 

 the State of Missouri for the year ending in 

 June, 1882, we learn that there were h\e 

 hundred and ninety-one students in attend- 

 ance and seventy-seven graduates from the 

 Academic, Law, Engineering, Mining, Agri- 

 cultural, Normal and Medical Departments 

 — the largest number of graduates ever sent 

 forth from the University in one year, and 

 the largest whole number of students for a ly 

 year except the one preceding. 



Jno. K. Hallowell, formerly of this city, 

 who recently published a very careful and 

 complete account of the mining and other 

 resources of Boulder county, Colorado, is 

 now in the Gunnison country, exploring and 

 writing it up fur the Denver Republican. 



The August Atlantic Alonthly has two- 

 features which will specially commend it to 

 general attention, namely, a fine new steel 

 portrait of Mr, Emerson, which is remarkably 

 saiialaciory, and which is accompanied by aa 

 admirable article by W. T, Harris, of Con- 

 cord, Mass. ; and a Supplement containing a. 



