Calendar of Societies. 



Anthropological society, Washington. 

 Jan. 4. — Victor Mindeleff, The Moki group of 

 Pueblos ; William H. Holmes, Prehistoric jewellers 

 of Panama ; J. Owen Dorsey, Indian customs around 

 the sick and dead. 



Institute of social science, New York. 

 Jan. 13. — George Gunton, Economic heresies of 

 Mr. Henry George. 



Publications received at Editor's Oifice, Jan. 3-8, 



Bainbridge, Elizabeth G. Schoolroom games and exercises. 

 Chicago and Boston, TAe interstate pub. co., 1886. 135 p., 

 illustr. 12°. 



Baird, S. F., Report of, to Smithsonian institution for the 

 year 1K85-86. Washington, Goz'ernjnent , 1886. 83 p. 8°. 



Billings, J. D. Standard selections for elocutionary drill and 

 memory work in grammar and high schools. Chicago and Boston, 

 The interstate pub. CO., I'&'&d. 135 p. 12°. 



Bovallius, C. Nicaraguan antiquities. Stockholm, P. A. 

 Norstedt ^^ Soner,pr., \iib6 50 p., 41 pi., 2 maps. f°. (New- 

 York, Charles L. Woodward, S8.) 



Cleveland public schools. Superintendent's report for the 

 school year ending Aug. 31, 1886. Cleveland, O., Flain dealer 

 pub CO., 1886. 125 p. 12°. 



Ferrel, W. Recent advances in meteorology. (U. S. war 

 dept., appendix 71.) Washington, Government, 1886. 440 p., 

 illustr. 8°. 



Fitzgerald, D. Evaporation. New York, Avier. soc. civ. 

 «K^-., [1S87.] [66] p., L12I pl.. 8°. _ 



Hall, E. H. Elementary ideas, definitions, and laws in dy- 

 namics. Cambridge, C. W. Sever, 1886. 4+37 p. 12°. 



Ingalls, J. K. Economic equities : a compend of the natural 

 laws of industrial production and exchange. New York, The 

 truth seeker C07npany, \^'&T. 63 p. 12°. 25 cents. 



IngersoU, R. G. A lay sermon. New York, The truth 

 seeker company, 1^6. 25 p. 16°. 



Putnam, J. P. Reply to the report of Mr. Glenn Brown on 

 experiments in trap siphonage, at the Museum of hygiene, U. S. 

 navy department, Washington, D.C. Boston, The author, 

 [1887.] 12 p., illustr. 8°. 



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