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RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY FOR 1879: By J. L. E. Dreyer, M. 
A., Dublin, Ireland. 
This is a sketch of the principal astronomical events of the year 1879, and 
an account of the more important and interesting investigations that were 
made in that year. It is intended as a continuation of the work of Professor 
Holden, of the U. S. Naval Observatory, who has for several years 
prepared such a paper for the Annual Record of Science and Industry 
(now discontinued). In this account of the world’s progress in astronomical 
work it is gratifying to notice that the labors and investigations of the 
observers of the United States occupy a prominent position, and that the names 
of such western observers as Pritchett, of Missouri, Stone, of Cincinnati, 
Burnham, of Chicago, and Watson, of Ann Arbor, are mentioned in connection 
with services of a most valuable character to astronomical science. 
Tue Data or Eruics: By Herbert Spencer: J. Fitzgerald & Co., 1880, Paper, 
15 cents. 
This is number 9, volume I, of the Humboldt Library, those preceding it 
being Light Science for Leisure Hours, by Prof. R. A. Proctor; Forms of 
eWater, by Prof. Jno. Tyndall; Physics and Politics, by Walter Bagehot; Man’s 
Place in Nature, by Prof. T. H. Huxley; Education: Intellectual, Moral and 
Physical, by Herbert Spencer ; Town Geology, by Rev. Chas. Kingsley ; Conser- 
vation of Energy, by Prof. Balfour Stewart; The Study of Languages, by C. 
Marcel 
Thus it will be seen that for $1.35 one can procure nine first class, standard 
works by the best writers of the present day, printed in fair type on good paper, 
while, by subscribing by the year, twenty-four such works can be had for $3.00 
per annum. 
 QuarTERLY Report oF THE Kansas State Board OF AGRICULTURE, JUNE Bios 
1880: J. K. Hudson, Secretary: pp. 119 Octavo. 
This valuable work contains, as usual, statistics relative to population, 
acreage of important crops, railroads, public lands, condition of crops, farm 
animals, meteorology data, etc., together with the Summer and Fall treatment of 
orchards and vineyards, the Growing of sorghum cane, and the Habits and trans 
formations of the web worm, the last by Prof. E. A. Popenoe, of the State 
Agricultural College. This Report is an excellent number, creditable alike to the 
State and to Major Hudson, the new Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. 
_ CircuLars or INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION, No. 2 TSO tony 
John Eaton, Commissioner: Govt. Printing Office, 1880. 
This so-called circular comprises 111 pages and is a Report of the proceed- 
ings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Associa. 
{ tion, at the meeting at Washington, Feb. 18-20, 1880. 
