Calendar of Societies. 



Anthropological society, Washington. 



Dec. 21. — C. E. Dutton, Mr. Henry George's 

 ' Progress and poverty.' 



Engineers^ club, Philadelphia. 



Dec. 18. — Kenneth Allen, A table of thicknesses of 

 plates for standpipes, with formulae, for the refer- 

 ence-book; L. M. Haupt, Besults of some calcula- 

 tions upon the equilibrium and stability of his sys- 

 tem of floating deflectors ; A. H. Howland, Stand- 

 pipes ; J. H. Harden, Notes upon the Chester county, 

 Penn., granite. 



Society of arts, Boston. 



Dec. 23. — E. C. Pickering, Stellar photography. 



Society of natural history, Boston. 



Jan. 5. — P. W. Putnam, Explorations in the Little 

 Miami valley, Ohio. 



Indiana academy of science, Indianapolis. 



Dec. 29, 30. — D. S. Jordan, The dispersion of fresh- 

 water fishes; J. N. Eose, The mildews of Indiana; 

 C. E,. Barns, The moss leaf ; S. Coulter, The chloro- 

 phyl bands of Spirogyra ; Lillie J. Martin, Outline 

 of a course in science study based on evolution ; 



Geo. H , Additions to the flora of Jefferson 



county ; J. M. Coulter, Origin of the Indiana flora ; 

 E. E. Quick, Otir blind mice ; A. W. Butler, Notes 

 on the house-biiilding habit of the muskrat; O. P. 

 Hay, A curious habit of the red-headed woodpecker ; 

 A. W. Butler, Notes on Indiana ornithology ; B. W. 

 Evermann, Notes on birds observed in Carroll county, 

 Ind.; 0. P. Hay, The higher classification of the 

 amphibia ; Some reptiles and amphibians that appear 

 to be rare in Indiana ; Some reptiles and amphibians 

 that are to be looked for in Indiana ; Notes on the 

 winter habits of Amblystoma tigrinum and A. micro- 

 stoma; C. H. Eigenmann and Elizabeth G. Hughes, 

 Eeview of Diplodon and Lagodon ; C. H. Eigenmann 

 and Jennie Horning, Eeview of American Chaetodon- 

 tidae ; 0. P. Jenkins, The fishes of the Wabash and 

 some of its tributaries ; D. S. Jordan, The relation 

 of latitude to the number of vertebrae in fishes ; S. 

 E. Meek, Elagatis pinnulatus at the eastern end of 

 Long Island ; H. L. Osborn, Osphradium in Crep- 

 idula; C. H. BoUman, Notes on the Acrididae of 

 Bloomington, Ind., with descriptions of four new 

 species ; Jerome McNeill, A remarkable case of 

 longevity in the longicorn beetle, Eburia quadri- 

 geminata Say ; P. M. Webster, Some biological studies 

 of Lixus macer Say, and L. concavus Lee ; J. Mc- 

 Neill, Descriptions of four new species of myriapods 

 from the United States ; C. H. BoUman, New North 

 American myriapods, chiefly from Bloomington, 

 Ind. ; E. F. Hight, On the Thysanura ; J. McNeill, 

 The teaching of entomology in the high schools ; 

 J. L. Campbell, The geodetic survey in Indiana; T. C. 

 Mendenhall, Eecent progress in seismology; J. C. 

 Branner, An Indiana earthquake ; A. J. Phinney, 

 Natural gas and petroleum ; D. W. Dennis, The 

 bearing of the Lebanon beds on evolution ; J. 

 T. Scovell, The geology of Vigo county, Ind.; A. 

 J. Phinney, Zoantharia rugosa ; V. C. Alderson, 

 Town geology, what it is, and what it might be ; J. 

 H. Means and J. C. Branner, Preliminary location of 

 a parting in the sub-carboniferous of Monroe county, 



Ind.. W. P. Shannon, The physical geography of 

 Decatur county, Ind., during the Niagara period; J. 

 T. Scovell, The Niagara Eiver ; C. E. Dryer, The 

 surface geology of the Wabash-Erie divide ; 0. P. 

 Hay, The manner of deposit of the glacial drift, and 

 the formation of lakes ; J. C. Branner, The limit of 

 the drift in Kentucky and Indiana ; The deep well at 

 Bloomington, Ind.; Daniel Kirkwood, The zone of 

 minor planets ; H. W. Wiley, Causes of variation of 

 sucrose in sorghum ; P. H. Baker, The new alkaloid, 

 cocaine ; A. B. Woodford, The nation, the subject- 

 matter of political science. 



Engineers' club, St. Louis. 

 Dec. 21. — Announcement of the death of Col. C. 

 Shaler Smith. 



Wisconsin academy of sciences, arts, and letters. 



Dec. 28-29. — E. D. Irving, The basal conglomo- 

 rate of the Huronian ; E. D. Salisbury, Constitution 

 of the residuary clays; T. C. Chamberlin, Glacial 

 phenomena about the head of Lake Michigan ; I. M. 

 Buell, Bowlder trains of Dodge, Dane, and Eock 

 counties ; F. B. Power, Disinfection ; P. E. Hoy, 

 Science and society ; W. F. Allen, The genesis of the 

 town ; John Bascom, Limitations of political econo- 

 my ; J. J. Blaisdell, The methods of science. 



Publications received at Editor's Office, Dec. 20-25, 



Brinton, D. G The conception of love in some American 

 languages. Philadelphia., McCa/la &" Siavefy,/r., 18S6. 18 p. 

 8°. 



Brownell, H. Handbook for school trustees in the state of 

 New York. Syracuse, C. W. Bardeen, 1886. 4-I-64 p. 16°. 



Comfort, G- F. Modern languages in education. Syracuse, 

 N.Y., C. W. Bardeen, 1886. 40 p. 16'. 



Education, circulars of information of the bureau of. No. i, 

 1886 : The study of music in public schools. Washington, 

 Govern^nent, 1886. 78 p. 8°. 



Heberden, C. B. Euripides Medea. Parts i., ii. (Clarendon 

 pr. ser.) Oxford, Clarendon /r., 1886. 80+59 ?• r6°' (New 

 York, Macmillan, 50 cents.) 



Illinois state board of health, report of proceedings of the. 

 Springfield, State, 1886, 16 p. 12°. 



Sloman, A. P. Terenti Adelphi. (Clarendon pr. ser.) Os.- 

 iox^. Clarendon pr.,\Z?>(i. 32-I-128 p. 16°. (New York, Mac- 

 millan, 75 cents.) 



Swee^, H. Second middle English primer. Extracts from 

 Chaucer. (Clarendon pr. ser.) Oxford, Clarendon /r., 1886. 

 6+1 T2 p. 16°. (New York, Macmillan, 50 cents.) 



Williams, G. A. Topics and references in American history, 

 with numerous search questions. Syracuse, N.Y., C. W. Bar- 

 deen, 1886. 50 p. 16°. 



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