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tion," which by itself is worth more than the price of the whole number, there 

 are four other essays, namely, on Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen ; on 

 the Connection of the Biological Sciences with Medicine; on Sensation and the 

 Sensiferous organs; and on Certain Errors respecting the Structure of the Heart 

 attributed to Aristotle. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



^CasselFs Family Magazine, American Edition, Vol. I, Nos, 9 and 10, Novem- 

 ber and December; $1.50 a year, 15 cents monthly; Cassell & Co., New York. 

 The Virginia, a Mining, Industrial, and Scientific Journal, Jed. Hotchkiss Editor 

 and Proprietor January, 1885; $2.00 a year 25 cents a month, Staunton, Va. 

 Iowa State Historical Record, published by State Historical Society, at Iowa City, 

 Iowa; January, 1885. National Water Works Co., Kansas City, Mo., revised 

 water rates and rules and regulations for 1885, B. F. Jones, Superintendent, Kan- 

 sas City, Mo. Humboldt Library, No. (^d : Technical Education and other essays, 

 by Thomas H. Huxley; price 15 cents; J. Fitzgerald, Publisher, New York, 

 Johns Hopkins University Studies, Herbert B. Adams, Editor. Third Series, II- 

 III : Local Institutions of Virginia, by Edward Ingle, A. B.; February and March, 

 1885, Baltimore, Md. The University Review^ successor to Kansas Review and 

 University Courier, March, 1885. Signal Service Notes, Nos. VI, VII, VIII, 

 IX : No. VI — A Report on Wind Velocities at Lake Crab and at Chicago, by H. 

 A. Hazen ; No. VII — The Study of Meteorology in Higher Schools of Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Austria, by Frank Waldo ; No. VIII — Variation of Rainfall 

 West of the Mississippi, by H. A. Hazen; No. IX— The Elements of the Helio- 

 graph, by Frederick K. Ward, Washington City Signal Office, 1883. A Cor- 

 relation Theory of Color Perception, by Charles A. Oliver, A. M., M. D., Jan- 

 uary, 1885, Philadelphia, Pa. Pacific Science Monthly, Stephen Bowers, Ph.D., 

 Editor, Vol. I, No. i, March, 1885, Bowers & Son, San Buenaventura, Cal. 

 Advance Sheets, Report of Experiments, by Prof. E. M. Shelton, Manhattan, 

 Kansas, March, 1885; Experiments of 1884. New York Medical Abstract, Febru- 

 ary, 1885, Vol. V, No. 2; $1.00 per year; Medical Abstract Co., New York. 

 Bulletin of Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History, Edited by Francis W. 

 Cragin, Vol. I, 'No. 2, price 20 cents, Topeka, Kas., January, 18S5. Report of 

 Adjutant-General of Missouri for 1883-4, Jefferson City, Mo. Meteorology of 

 Oakland, Cal. for 1882-3, and 1883-4, by J. B. Trembly, M. D., Oakland, Cal. 

 The Revolution of 1884, J. G. Pangborn, Chicago, 111., 1885. International 

 Electrical Exhibition, 1884. Report of Examiners on Applications of Electricity 

 to Warfare; Fire and Burglar Alarms and Annunciators; Underground Conduits; 

 Electro Dental Apparatus ; Electric Telegraphs, published in Philadelphia, Pa. 

 General Truths in Applied Entomology, by Chas. V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist, 

 Macon, Ga., 1884. Report of the Entomologist Chas. V. Riley, M. A., for year 

 1884; January 31, 1885, Government Printing Office. Department of Agricul- 



