BOOK NOTICES. 127 
BOCK INO INCE, 
WATER ANALYSIS FOR SANITARY Purposes. By E. Frankland, Ph. D., D. C. 
i. R. S. Philadelphiay Presley Blakiston, pp: 140) $x. 
In view of the rapidly increasing population of our cities, and the corre- 
sponding increase of the contaminating materials, formed in factories, chemical 
works and households, which flow into our streams or filter through the soil into 
our springs and wells, it is of the utmost importance that the people should be 
informed how they can test their drinking water for unwholesome ingredients. 
This is the object of Dr. Frankland’s little work, which, while strictly scientific 
and technical, is at the same time written in such a style as to be readily under 
stood by ordinary readers. Part I, is devoted to water analysis without gas ap- 
paratus, including the preliminary examination of samples, solid matter in solu- 
tion, ammonia, chlorine, hardness, nitrogen, poisonous metals, organic impuri- 
ties, etc. Part II, is devoted to water analysis requiring gas apparatus, includ- 
ing the determination of carbon and nitrogen in organic matter by the combus- 
tion process, the eudiometrical determinations, interpretation of the results of com- 
bustion, sewage or animal contamination. The appendix (40 pages) contains 
lists of reagents, tables, typical analyses, etc., closing with the conclusions and 
recommendations of the Rivers Pollution Commissioners of England. 
Physicians, sanitary commissioners and boards of health will find it a 
‘‘handy volume” in their work. 
Missourt University Lectures. By Members of the Faculty, 1878-9 ; Course 
II, Vol. I, pp. 504. Statesman print, Columbia, Mo. 
In 1g77-8, the Faculty of the Missouri University inaugurated the deliver- 
ing of a series of lectures illustrative of the various special departments, which 
was found to be a decidedly popular move. During the past winter a second 
course was delivered with similar favorable reception by both students and the 
public, to whom they were made free. ‘They were afterward brought together 
and published in a neat volume for general distribution. 
The table of contents is as follows: Petroleum, by Prof. Schweitzer; Evolu- 
tion and Creation, by Prof. Swallow; Insect Ways, Prof. Tracy ; Mathematics, 
Prof. Ficklin; Three Pronunciations of Latin, Prof. Fisher; Mosaic Cosmog- 
| ony, Prof. Meyrowitz; Linguistic Curiosities, Prof. McAnally; Arnold of Rug- © 
by, Prof. Bibb; The Professional school, Prof. Lowry, The Ideal of Art, Prof. 
Bingham; Metaphysics, Prest. Laws; Advantages of Classical Study, Prof. 
Fleet ; Study of Language, Prof. Blackwell; Art, Prof. Diehl. 
