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ITEMS FROM THE PERIODICALS. 



The American Naturalist for June, pre- 

 sents the following table of contents : Arch- 

 seilogy of Vermont; Larval Habits of Bee- 

 Flies ; Late Explorations in the Gaboon ; 

 Pueblo Pottery ; Botany ; Zoology ; Ento- 

 mology ; Anthropology; Geology and Palae- 

 ontology; Geography and Travels; Micro- 

 scopy, etc., etc Several of the articles are 

 illustrated, and the number contains a map 

 •of Franz-Joseph Land. 



Thf Educationist, Volume III, number 5, 

 published by G. W. Hoss, at Topeka, Kan- 

 sas, is before us ; a 24-page monthly, neat and 

 attractive in appearance as it is substantial 

 and valuable in matter. ;^i 00 per annum. 



The Humboldt Library, No. 22, Vol. i, 

 J. Fitzgerald & Co., New York, gives its 

 readers for the sum of 15 cents the whole of 

 Professor Wm. K. Clifford's volume on See- 

 ing and Thinking, with all of the engravings 

 illustrating the original. 



The Atlantic Monthly, for June has several 

 inew features which will commend it to a 

 thost of readers. So far, the Atlantic, under 

 Mr. Aldrich's editorship, does great credit to 

 his care and ju>lgment. He will undoubted- 

 ly prove a success. 



The Clinton, (Wis.,) Herald, whose editor, 

 Dr. Stephen Bowers, is one of ihe best known 

 American archaeologists, refers to the Review 

 'Very pleasantly, thus : 



The Kansas City Review of Science 

 AND Industry for May has reached us, and 

 U brim full of good things. 



The edi or gives us in each number a review 

 of the progress of science in this country, 

 which, owing to its clever and popular style 

 ii of interest to all classes of readers. This 

 -excellent western magazine should have a 

 Jarge subscription liii. — Clinton, Wis., Weekly 

 JHerald. 



Among the best articles in Popular Science 

 Monthly for June are Physical Education, by 

 Dr. Osvald; Sunst oke and some of its Se- 

 quelje, by Dr. J. Fayrer ; The Value of Our 

 Forests, by N. H. Egleston ; The Modern 

 Development of Faraday's Conception of 

 Electricity, by Prof. A. Helmholtz, and the 

 Editor's Department, which last is always a 

 model of condensed science. 



The '8o5\.ot\. Journal of Commerce comes out 

 in a new dress, and makes the following ro- 

 bust and gratifying announcement: "We 

 print 7,596 copies of this issue of the Boston 

 Journal of Commerce, 6,620 of which are our 

 subscribers, exchanges and newsdealers, and 

 the balance are sent abroad as specimen 

 copies. The " Little Basket " of a year ago 

 has been laid by." 



Mr. Geo. A. Bates, of the Naturalists' 

 Bureau, Salem, Mass., is about to resume the 

 publication of Prof. Ernest IngersoU's "Nat- 

 tural History of the Nests and Eggs of 

 American Birds." It will be issued in month- 

 ly parts, magnificently illustrated, and will in- 

 clude the birds of the whole of North Ameri- 

 ca north of Mexico, their habitat, their date 

 of arival, materials and sites chosen for nests, 

 detis of incubation, birth and care of young 

 birds, etc. Prof. IngersoU has made a spe- 

 cialty of this subject and will give to the 

 world a standard work. Price 50 cents per 

 number, or ^5.50 per annum. 



When our attention was first called to this 

 publication, we hardly knew which to envy 

 most, the bravery of the editor or his bank 

 account, for the idea of a successful Review 

 of Science on this side of the Mississippi and 

 amid our peculiar surroundings, seemed to 

 us almost preposterous. But upon more inti- 

 mate acquaintance with the Review and see- 

 ing the real excellence secured by the pains" 

 taking labor of the editor, the high character 

 of its articles and the beauty of its mechani- 

 cal execution, our wonder is that the Review 

 has not done even better than it has. — Mid 

 Continent. 



