380 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
of the country; the chronology of the pharaonic history; the early dynasties ; 
art and architecture ; Semites and Egyptians; the Pharaoh of the Oppression and 
of the Exodus, and finally the memoir upon the Exodus read by Dr. Brugsch-Bey 
before the International Congress of Orientalists in London, September 17, 1874. 
Dr. Brugsch-Bey has spent some thirty years in Egypt, and has devoted most 
of his time to explanations of ancient localities, roads, ruins, monuments and other 
relics of the earliest times, and has thus become an excellent authority on Orien- 
tal history. Still, while his conclusions seem to the reader to be based on correct 
data, and supported by many facts of modern history, they are not universally 
accepted by all travelers, nor are his claims to absolute correctness in hieroglyph- 
ical translation admitted without dispute by all scholars. 
Mr. Greville Chester, who was sent to Egypt by the Palestine Exploration 
Committee of the Royal Geographical Society, is reported to have discovered that 
the geographical and physical features of the Serbonis are in actual confl ct with 
Dr. Brugsch’s theory, while the well known scholar, Prof. G. Seyffarth, in his 
article upon Egyptian Theology, declares that Brugsch’s knowledge of the Egyp- 
tian language is very defective and that he is totally ignorant of the Hebrew. 
Leaving such questions, however, to be settled by still closer investigations, it 
cannot be gainsaid that Mr. Underwood’s book is one that contains much that is 
new to most readers nor that it will stimulate not only geographical exploration, 
but also Egyptological study from a new and powerful cause. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Report to the Trustees of the James Lick Trust, of Observations made on 
Mt. Hamilton, with reference to the location of the Lick Observatory, by S. W. 
Burnham. ‘The Microscopist’s Annual, for 1879, with useful tables rules, formule 
and memoranda; Industrial Publication Company, 25 cents. Legal Rights of 
Children, by S. M. Wilcox, published by U. S. Bureau of Education. Progress 
of Western Education in China and Siam, and Vacation Colonies for Sickly School 
Children, published by same. The Western Farmer of America, a free trade tract, 
by Augustus Mongredien, London, published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, N. Y. 
Amended Charter and By-Laws of the Missouri Historical Society, 1880. St. 
Joseph Medical and Surgical Reporter, Vol. 1, No. 3; J. P. Chesney, M. D.; 
$1.00 per annum. Daily Programmes of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, F. W. Putnam, Sec. 
