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and illustrations in the text. Many of these are from drawings by the author 

 and the remainder from photographs. 



Mr. Bandelier has been employed for several years past by the Institute, 

 first in New Mexico where he studied the Pueblos, and afterwards in Old Mexico 

 where he has devoted himself to the interesting ruins of that country. He is a 

 graceful and interesting writer and an explorer who knows what to look for and 

 how to investigate it, which is more than can be said of all explorers. The sub- 

 ject, though old, is ever attractive, and though Humboldt and LePlongeon, Ban- 

 croft and Charnay, besides numerous Spanish, French and Italian explorers, have 

 described these wonderful ruins over and over for several centuries past, this 

 new story of their mystery and grandeur will be read with renewed and undimin- 

 ished interest. 



The Institute has put it forth in handsome style, through its publishers, and 

 can supply any demand upon application to Mr. Greenleaf. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, May 

 TO OcroBER, 1884. Edited by Edward J. Nolan, M. D. 8vo., pp. 144. 

 1884. 



The promptness with which this volume has been produced, so unusual with 

 scientific bureaus and societies, is worthy of all commendation. Its contents are, 

 as heretofore, highly attractive from their originality and the nature of most of 

 the subjects discussed. We find among the contributors the names of Professors 

 Leidy, Meehan, Gill, Lewis, Doctors Foote and Brinton, Rev. H. C. McCook 

 and several others less well known in the West. Among the, to us, more inter- 

 esting papers we note that upon Rapid Changes in the History of Species, by 

 Prof. Thomas Meehan; Rev. Mr. McCook's articles upon the Habits of Spiders, 

 atid that of Dr. D. G. Brinton upon " The so-called Bird-Track Rock Sculptures 

 of Ohio." Other papers will commend themselves to other readers who are inter- 

 ested in biology, botany, geology, physiology, etc. 



No society of the kind in this country does more original or better work 

 than this. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Signal Service Notes, No. XVI : The Effect of Wind Currents on Rainfall, 

 by G. E. Curtis, U. S. Government Printing Office. Humboldt Library, Double 

 Number, 3octs., No. 62 — The Religions of the Ancient World, including Egypt, 

 Assyria, Babylonia, etc., by Rawlinson, M. A., published by J. Fitzgerald, N. Y. 

 A Manual of Geology, with classification tables, by Prof. S. H. Trowbridge; 

 published by National School Furnishing Co., Chicago 111. Oxygen and Ozone : 

 Their Applications, by Prof. Anton Stamm ; published at Leadville, Colo. A 

 Spectro Photometric Study of Pigments, by Edward L. Nichols, Ph. D. Bui- 



