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Dr. John G. Lemmon has recently return- 

 ed to San Francisco from Arizona, where he 

 reports having found two or three species of 

 potatoes growing wild in the mountain mead- 

 ows or parks, probably as much as 6000 feet 

 above the sea level. 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



The New Medical Era and Sanitarian is the 

 title of a new medical monthly to be issued 

 January i, 1883, by Dr. A. L. Chapman of 

 this city. It will be devoted to medicine and 

 sanitary science, will contain fifty octavo 

 pages and will be famished to subscribers at 

 the exceedingly low price of %\.^o per an- 

 num. Dr. Chapman's long experience and 

 ability will enable him to provide his readers 

 with much valuable information. 



Knowledge says that "The comet which 

 came to perihelion on September 17th last, 

 seems to be a return of the comet of 1658 

 which is probably the same as the comet of 

 1843 ^'^^ the comet of 1880. If so, there 

 seems every reason to believe that in a few 

 months will see the comet back yet again, 

 and that the end will then not be far off, — 

 the end of the comet we mean, not the end 

 of the earth, as some seem to imagine." 



Professor H. A. Howe, of Denver, Col., 

 arrives at opposite conclusions and says that 

 this comet is not the one of 1843, ^"^^ that 

 there is not danger that it will tumble into 

 the Sun next year or at any other time. 



Thos. Pray, Jr., editor of Cotton, Wool 

 and Iron, formerly the Boston Journal of Com- 

 merce, of which we have had frequent occa- 

 sion to speak highly as a first-class commer- 

 cial and mechanical journal, expects to have 

 his work, "Twenty Years with the Indica- 

 tor," ready for delivery by January i, 1883. 

 Royal octavo, pp. 144, ipi.5o> 



We find in the Missouri Republican of No- 

 vember 19th, a report of a very interesting 

 lecture by F. F. Hilder before the Century 

 Club, upon the " Rise, Growth and Decay of 

 Ancient Art." 



The Atlantic Monthly for 1883 will contain, 

 in addition to its variety of Serial and Short 

 Stories, Essays, Sketches, Poetry, and Criti- 

 cism, the following specially attractive fea- 

 tures: Oliver Wendell Holmes will write 

 frequently and exclusively for it; Henry Wads- 

 worth Longfellow left a completed dramatic 

 poem entitled "Michael Angelo," which he 

 was more than ten years in writing. The 

 first installment of the poem, which is in 

 three parts, will appear in the January num- 

 ber; Nathaniel Hawthorn left among his 

 manuscripts the plan and sketches of a novel, 

 which will appear in The Atlantic under the 

 title, "The Ancestral Footstep: Outlines of 

 an English Romance." The first portion ap- 

 pears in the December number, with an in- 

 troduction by Mr. George P. Lathrop. It 

 will be continued in the earlier numbers of 

 1883 ; Mr, James will also write a new story 

 and some critical and literary papers, such as 

 the readers of the magazine have heretofore 

 found so admirable ; Mr. W. D. Howells, 

 author of "Their Wedding Journey," etc., 

 whose stories and essays have so often delight- 

 ed the readers of The Atlantic, will from time 

 to time send to the magazine from Europe 

 sketches of travel, character, and literature ; 

 Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, author of " My 

 Winter on the Nile," " My Summer in a 

 Garden," "Backlog Studies," etc., promises 

 several papers for the coming year. 



Fowler & Wells are about to publish 

 "A New Theory of Species," by Benj. G. 

 Ferris; "Traits of Representative Men," by 

 Geo, W. Bungay, and "Forty Years in Phre- 

 nology," by Nelson Sizer. 



The Boston Literary World, in speaking 

 of the Review, says, "it makes an appeal 

 for a more generous support, which it fully 

 deserves. In a modest way it is doing a 

 good work." 



Thk Iowa State Register of tJoveraher i6th, 

 contains the Proceedings of the DesMoines 

 Academy of Science, including an excellent 

 inaugural address by President A. R. Ful- 

 ton, 



