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read this Report without acknowledging that the facts compiled have been judi- 
ciously and forcibly set forth and that great credit is due Professor Collet and his 
assistants for industry in collecting and skill in preparing them. The general de- 
scription of the State with which the volume commences, and the statistical tables 
which follow, furnish the most complete and satisfactory account of the progress 
of the State in agriculture, manufactures, trade, finances, education, religion, 
population and hygiene that could be desired and just such information as the im- 
migrant needs. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, FOR 
Marcu, APRIL AND May, 1880: pp. 152 Octavo, illustrated. 
This Society, which has been in existence since 1817, still keeps up its active 
work and this volume contains the results of the original researches and investi- 
gations of some of the best known naturalists in the country; such as Leidy, Mee- 
han, Lockington, Heilprin, Kingsley, Allen, Bergh, Redfield and Kelly, and is 
illustrated copiously. 
Dr. Ruschenberger is President, Prof. Thomas Meehan, Vice President, and 
Prof. Jos. Leidy, M. D., is Chairman of the Publication Committee and Edward 
J. Nolan, M. D., Editor. 
ENGINEERING PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES: By Octave Chanute, C. E: pp. 
40, Octavo. 
This is the annual address for 1880, read by Vice-President Chanute (for- 
merly our fellow citizen) at the tweifth Annual Convention of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers,held at St. Louis, May 25th, 1880 
The paper is a condensed and at the same time comprehensive review of en- 
gineering and engineering inventions in this country; taking up consecutively the 
principal points of interest in connection with Water Works, Hydraulics, Canals, 
Street Railways, Bridges, Preservation of Timber, River Improvements, Light 
Houses, Marine Engineering, Telegraphic Engineering, Gas Engineering, Metal- 
_lurgy and Mining, Agricultural Engineering, Transportation of meats and the En- 
gineering Future. 
It is concisely written, but possesses great interest, and will doubtless furnish 
to future numbers of the Revew some valuable chapters. 
THE SrubDy 6r Lancuaces Brought back to its True Principles: By C. Marcel, 
pp. 27, Quarto: J. Fitzgerald & Co., N. Y. For sale by the K. C. Book & 
4 News Co. ; 15 cents. 
This is number eight of the Humboldt Library, and like its predecessors is a 
shining example of a good thing in cheap literature. M. Marcel is the author of 
_““Languages as a Means of Mental Culture”’ etc., and has had large experience 
-asateacher. This work is a brief summary of a larger work not yet published, 
_but init are given special directions for the acquisition of ancient and modern lan- 
