736 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



King; A New Method of Measuring Heights by Means of the Barometer, by G. 

 K. Gilbert. List of illustrations. 



The volume is admirably printed and, as can be seen by the above statement 

 of its contents, it is an exceedingly valuable work. The expenses of the Survey 

 for the year were $156,000. 



Geometry and Faith. Thomas Hill, D. D.; i2mo.,pp. 124. Lee & Shepard, 

 Boston, 1882. $1.25. 



The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hill, who was at one time President of Harvard Col- 

 lege and who was regarded by the late Professor Peirce as one of the finest 

 mathematicians of this country, has again rewritten and sent forth his little work 

 with the above title. It was first published in 1852 as a supplement to Charles 

 Babbage's " Ninth Bridgewater Treatise," and with the same object in view, i. e. 

 to refute the idea that ardent devotion to mathematic studies is unfavorable to 

 faith, and also to indicate the aid which the evidences of Christianity may receive 

 from such studies. It is admirably adapted to such a purpose, inasmuch as it 

 combines precise mathematical statements with the imagination of the poet, the 

 eloquence of the orator and the learning of the sage. Very few can read the sev- 

 eral chapters of the work and fail to be convinced that there are "proofs of a 

 divine intelligence behind and beneath the order of nature, manifest alike in the 

 grandest and minutest forms, alike in the most abstract and the most concrete 

 laws of the universe." He applies the strictest mathematical tests to the proces- 

 ses and results of nature, and shows beyond question the rule of law as formulated 

 and operated by a prime originator and Creator. It is just such a work as a lover 

 of the higher mathematics would be attracted by, and at the same time it is ex- 

 tremely fascinating to any reader. 



Doctor Hill is also an eminent Hebrew scholar and has devoted some of his 

 leisure hours to the translation of the Old Testament scriptures and the books of 

 Apochrypha. He has now in hand a translation of Ecclesiasticus, which he re- 

 gards as " a grand old book, fully worthy (as far as I can see) to take its place 

 by the side of the Proverbs." 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Missouri Historical Society, annual address of the President, Geo. E. Leigh- 

 ton, January 16, 1883. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, Part III, October to December, 1882. Capital and Labor, Henry 

 McKinney, Great Bend, Penn., loc. Discussions in Current Science, by W. 

 Mattieu ^iWidivas, Humboldt Library, No. 41, 15c. Bromide of Ethyl, by Julian 

 J. Chisolm, M. D. Cambridge Entomological Club, Annual Report for 1882. 

 The Researches of Colorado, 1881 and 1882, J. Alden Smith, State Geologist, 

 pp. 160, 35c. Annual Report of the Board of Health of Kansas City for the 



