Calendar of Societies. 



Advertised Books of Reference. 



Biological society, Washington. 

 Feb. 5. — William T. Hornaday, The last of the 

 buffalo ; Richard Eathbun, Ocean temperature charts 

 in connection with studies in geographical distribu- 

 tion ; C. Hart Merriam, Contributions to North 

 American mammalogy ; Description of a new species 

 of wood-rat (Neotoma) ; Henry W. Elliott, Kidgway's 

 nomenclature of colors for naturalists ; L. Stejneger, 

 Exhibition of new species of birds from the Sand- 

 wich Islands; Tarleton H. Bean, Variation under 

 domestication of the rainbow trout (with exhibition 

 of specimens). 



Anthropological society, Washington. 

 Feb. 1. —James C. Welling, The 'law of Malthus' 

 inductively investigated. 



Institute of social science, New York. 

 Feb. 10. — T. D. Crothers, The cause and the cure 

 of inebriety. 



American academy of arts and sciences, Boston. 



Feb. 9. — Oliver W. Huntington, On the Coahuila 

 meteorites ; William M. Davis, The Chinook wind 

 and its effect on the isotherms and isobars of the 

 daily weather-map. 



Appalachian mountain club, Boston. 

 Feb. 9. — W. O. Crosby, Elevated potholes near 

 Shelburne Falls ; Edwin T. Home, A short descrip- 

 tion of the new path to Bald Cap. 



Society of arts, Boston . 



Feb. 10. — Mr. Dwight Porter, The water-power of 

 the United States. 



Feb. 24. — Dr. E. D. Peters, The Bessemerizing of 

 copper mattes. 



Publications received at Editor's Office, Jan. 31-Feb. 5. 



Agricultural science, January, 1887. Vol. i., No. i. Geneva, 

 N.Y., C. S. Plumb. 24 p. 8°. m. 



American association for the advancement of science, proceed- 

 ings of the thirty-fifth meeting of the, held at Buffalo, N.Y., 

 August, 1886. Salem, A.A.A.S. 392 p. 8=. 



Arcturus: a Canadian journal of literatuie and life. Toronto, 

 J.C.Dent. 16 p. 4°. 



Bliss, J. A. The history of the discovery of transfacial medi- 

 umship. South Boston, National developing circle. 46 p. 

 32°. 



BuGBEE, J. M. The city government of Boston. (Johns Hop- 

 kins univ. studies, fifth series, iii.) Baltimore, Johns Hop- 

 kins univ. 60 p. 8°. 



Du Fief, J. La densite de la population en Belgique et dans les 

 autres pays du monde. Bruxelles, Vanderauwera. 53 p. 8°. 



Fullerton, G. S. The conception of the infinite, and the solu- 

 tion of the mathematical antinomies : a study in psychologi- 

 cal analysis. Philadelphia, Lippincott. 131 p. 12°. $1. 



Hagemann, G A. Studien iiber das Molekularvolumen einiger 

 Korper Tr. by P. Knudsen. Berlin, Friedlander. 58 p. 8°. 



Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, Md., eleventh annual re- 

 port of the president of the, 1886. Baltimore, Johns Hop- 

 kins univ. loo p. 8°. 



Macoun, J. Catalogue of Canadian plants. Part iii.: Apetalae. 

 (Can. geol. nat. hist, surv.) Montreal, Dawson. [229] p. 8°. 



MacArthur, a. Education in its relation to manual industry. 

 New York, Appleton. 393 p. 12°. 



Ridgway, R. a nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and com- 

 pendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists. Boston, 

 Little, Brown & Co. 129 p. 12°. 



WoEiKOF, A. Die Klimate der Erde. Teil ii. Jena, Costeno- 

 ble. 422 p. 12". 



THE STANDARD NATURAL HISTORY. By all the 

 leading American scientists. Edited by J. S. Kingsley, Ph.D. 

 Vol. L Lower Invertebrates. Vol. II. Crustacea and Insects. 

 Vol. III. Fishes and Reptiles. Vol. IV. Birds. Vol. V. Mam- 

 mals. Vol. VI. Man. 6 vols., nearly 2,500 illustrations and 3,000 

 pages. Imp. 8vo, cloth, $36.00 ; half morocco, $48.00. S. E. 

 Cassino & Co. (Bradlee Whidden), Publishers, Boston. 



THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE EASTERN UNITED 

 STATES. For the use of classes in zoology and private stu- 

 dents. By G. H. French, A.M. Illustrated by 93 engravings and 

 a map of the territory represented. Large i2mo. Cloth. $2.00. 

 J. B. Lippincott Company, Pubs., Philadelphia. 



LIPPINCOTT'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. A 

 new, thoroughly revised, and greatly enlarged edition. A univer- 

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 persons of all ages and countries. By J. Thomas, M.D., LL.D. 

 Imperial 8vo. 2550 pages. Sheep. $12.00. J. B. Lippincott 

 Company, Pubs., Philadelphia. 



MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE ROCKY 

 MOUNTAINS. Coulter (Wabash Coll ), 8vo., 49 pp. $1.85. 

 Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Pubs., New York. 



STRUCTURAL BOTANY; or. Organography on the basis 

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 $2.30. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Pubs. New York. 



INSTRUCTION FOR THE DETERMINATION OF 

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 German by Erastus G. Smith, Professor of Chemistry and Miner- 

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 Wiley & Sons, Pubs., Astor Place, New York. 



ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS. Edited by Ormond Stone 

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 Virginia. $2 per vol. of 6 nos. 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUITS. By Prof. William 

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WILSON. — AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY ; or, The 

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 With continuation by Charles Lucien Bonaparte (Prince of Mu- 

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SCRIBNER'S STATISTICAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED 

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