BOOK NOTICES. 503 



Third Day's Proceedings. — Having failed to receive the report for Satur- 

 ^^ay, we are compelled to go to press without it. The papers read were as fol- 

 lows : 



Notes on the Golden Turkey, {Meleagris ocellata Cuv), Prof. Geo. F. Gau- 

 iner, Santa Fe, N. M. PreHminary List of the Invertebrate Fossils of Kansas, 

 •Geo. S. Chase, Topeka. Cremation, Dr. W. S. Newlon, Oswego. New Kan- 

 sas Coleoptera — chiefly from Douglas County, Prof. F. H. Snow, Lawrence. 

 Foot-Prints in the Pleistocene, Henry Inman, Topeka. Las Vegas Mineral Waters, 

 Prof. J. T. Lovewell. List of Coleoptera Collected in Gallinas Canon, N, M,, 

 in July and August, 1882, Prof. F. H. Snow. List of Lepidoptera Taken in Gal- 

 linas Canon, July and August, 1882, Prof. F. H. Snow. A Plea for Our Little 

 Birds, N. S. Goss, Topeka. Protozoan Remains in Kansas Chalk, Prof. G. E. 

 Patrick. Standard Time, Prof. H. S. S. Smith. On Some American Species of 

 Cyclops, Prof. F. W. Cragin, Topeka. Notes on the Gila Monster, {Heloderma 

 suspecium, Cope), Prof. F. H. Snow. Aborigines in Kansas, F. G. Adams, To- 

 peka. The Pictured Rocks of Pipe Creek, Silas Mason, Delphos. Observations 

 on the Nesting Habits of the Guillemots, etc., at Bird Rock, N. S. Goss, Topeka. 

 New Species Added to the List of Kansas Plants, Prof. J. H. Carruth. 



It was voted that in future one of the evening addresses before the Academy 

 at its annual meeting be given by the retiring President, also that the chairman 

 of each of the Commissions be asked to report to the Academy the progress made 

 in his specialty during the year. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Manual of Blow-Pipe Analysis. By H. B. Cornwall. Illustrated; 8vo. pp. 

 308. D. Van Nostrand & Co., New York, 1882. 



Professor Cornwall has charge of the departments of Analytical Chemistry 

 and' Mineralogy in the John C. Green School of Science, College of New Jersey, 

 where he has had large experience in teaching the use of the blow-pipe as well as 

 all other appliances of modern analytical methods. This work contains the prac- 

 tical results of his experience and study and will be found eminently useful both 

 to students and instructors. It will also be found of great value to actual work- 

 ers in the mining regions of the West where the examination of complex ores and 

 new minerals are so frequently necessary and the delay consequent upon sending 

 specimens to distant chemists and assayers is a serious objection. 



Beginning with directions for self instruction, lists of substances for practice 

 and of apparatus for qualitative blow-pipe analysis, the author proceeds to de- 

 scribe minutely, with numerous illustrations, the apparatus, reagents and opera- 

 tions in ordinary chemical work. After this prehminary chapter he takes up 



