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five hundred and seventy-two pages octavo, 
is mostly made up of papers read at that 
meeting, though not more than half of those 
presented were published. 
THE following are the contents of the 
Popular Science Monthly for October: Fash- 
ion in Deformity, by Prof. W. H. Flower, 
F. R.5S., (illustrated); Codperation in Eng- 
land, by George Iles; Modern Aspects of 
the Life Question, by Prof. George F. Bar- 
ker; The Australian Ornithorhynchus, (illus- 
trated); The mysterious Sounds of Nature, 
by Robert Springer ; The English Precursors 
of Newton, II; Criticisms Corrected, by 
Herbert Spencer. I. Tait and Kirkman; In- 
dia-rubber Industries, by Thomas Bolas, (il- 
lustrated;) On the Production of Sound by 
Light, by Alexander Graham Bell; Educa- 
tion as an Aid to the Health of Women, by 
Elizabeth Cumings; On the Destruction of 
Infectious Germs, by Dr. A. Wernich; Pos- 
sible Efficiency of Heat engines, by Prof. W. 
A. Anthony; Sketch of George Boole, (with 
portrait); Editor’s Table; Literary Notices ; 
Popular Miscellany; Notes. 
THE Atlantic for November will contain 
the first installment of Mr, James’s new 
story, The Portrait of a Lady; and a timely 
paper (with reference to the recent death of 
General Myer, and the weather department) 
on the Future of Weather Prophecy, by 
Prof. N.S. Shaler. There will be contribu- 
tions by Miss Preston, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. 
Lathrop (on the Concord School of Philoso- 
phy), with many essays and criticisms. 
AMONG the notes on current scientific sub- 
jects in the American Naturalist, those of 
Prof. Otis T. Mason, of Columbia College, 
Washington, D. C., upon Anthropology, are 
always carefully and discriminately made, 
causing them to be a marked feature of that 
interesting journal, 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 
THE articles in the Worth American Review 
most likely to be of interest to scientific 
readers, are The Success of the Electric 
Light, by Thomas A. Edison; The Ruins of 
Central America, Part II, by Desiré Char- 
ay, and Recent Progress in Astronomy, by 
Prof. E. 5. Holden. 
THE Sczentific American raises the question 
of the safety of New York and Brooklyn in 
case of an attack by foreign powers, urging 
that with the most improved modern ord- 
nance a war vessel can throw shot and shell 
into both cities from a distance of eleven 
miles and be entirely out of range of any 
gun now defending the harbor. 
The contents of Harpers Magazine for Oc- 
tober, 1880, are as follows: The Ascent of 
Fujiyama—C. F. Gordon-Cumming; Art- 
Needlework-—Lucretia P. Hale; Keats: a 
Sonnet—John Tabb; Reminiscences of John 
James Audubon—Thomas M. Brewer (with 
two illustrations); A Romance of the Heb- 
rides—Amelia E. Barr (with five illustra- 
tions); An Autumn Holiday--Sarah O. Jew- 
ett (with four illustrations); A Demon-Hunt 
with St. Hubert in Touraine—M. D. Conway 
(with nine illustrations); Does Farming Pay? 
A Poem—Henry S. Goodale (with six illus- 
trations); The Metropolis of the Prairies— 
A. A. Hayes, Jr. (with twenty-two illustra- 
tions; White Wings: a Yachting Romance— 
William Black (with two illustrations); The 
Throckmortons. A Story—Mary N. Prescott; 
Some Peculiarities of Turkish Politics; Wash- 
ington Square. Part IV—Henry James, Jr; 
Is It all There Still? A Poem—Z. B. Gus- 
tafson; ‘‘Bad Peppers.”” A Story—George 
Parsons Lathrop; A Buddhist Vision. A Poem 
—Francis L. Mace; Modern Bee Culture— 
M. Howland; Morning and Evening by the 
Sea. A Poem—James T. Fields; The ‘“So- 
phia Walker ’’—Captain John Codman; Edi- 
tor’s Easy Chair; Editor’s Literary Record ; 
Editor’s Historical Record ; Editor’s Drawer. 
