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theories concerning atoms, apes, and men. It can only be appreciated after a 

 careful perusal, when it will be acknowledged that there are two sides to the 

 questions discussed, and that Dr. Wainwright is a powerful and skillful debater 

 as well as a thoroughly competent man to meet and hold his own with the popu 

 lar theorists of the day. The first volume of the Humboldt Library will close 

 with the next number, when for $3.00 one can procure the best works of Proctor, 

 Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer, Marcel, Flammarion, Bain, and other prominent 

 modern writers. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Political Economy and Political Science, compiled by W. G. Sumner, David 

 A. Wells and others; 12 mo., paper, 25 cents. — Inter-State Railroads and Their 

 Regulation by Congress, by Robt. P. Harlow; 8vo., pp. 36. — Sewerage: Its 

 Application to Kansas City, Mo., by Robt. Gillham, C. E.; 8vo., pp. 22. — A 

 Primer of Memory Gems, by Geo. W. Hoss, Topeka, Kans.; i6mo., pp. 32, 10 

 cents. — Inaugural Address of Hon. W. G. Ritch, President of the Historical So- 

 ciety of New Mexico, with the Charter, Constitution and By-Laws of the Society. 

 — Objects of Sex and of Odor in Flowers, by Prof. Thos. Meehan, Professor of 

 Botany, State Board of Agriculture of Pennsylvania. — Notes on Treeless Prairies, 

 by Same. — Antiquities of the Missouri Bluffs, by S. V. Proudfit. — Proceedings of 

 the XIV Annual Session of the Missouri Press Association, held at Sedalia, Mo., 

 May, 1880. — Address to the Missouri Press Association, convened at Jefferson 

 City, Mo., May 10, 1881, by James B. Price. — Atti Delia Societa Toscana di 

 Scienze Naturali, Marzo 13, 1881. — On the Reduction of Air Pressure to Sea 

 Level and the Determination of Elevations by the Barometer, by H. A. Hazen, 

 A. M.— Hints on Orthography, by C. T. Pooler, A. M.; published by C. W. 

 Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y.. — The Mississippi River, and What its Proper Utiliza- 

 tion will Accomplish, by J. M. Osborn, Toledo, O. 



An interesting fact in connection with our old friends, the Rocky Mountain 

 locusts, was brought to light here during the week. While cleaning away an ac- 

 cumulation of " spalls," mortar and clay in the rear of the Laboratory, the work- 

 men discovered, in the unbroken ground beneath, a considerable number of nests 

 of grasshoppers' eggs, at the depth of six or eight inches. The rubbish above 

 referred to was placed in position in the fall of 1876, short'y after the deposit of 

 the eggs the same fall. These eggs, appearing fresh and healthy when taken 

 from the ground, were placed, by Supt. Graham, under favorable conditions for 

 hatching; and, in due time, a swarm of lively juvenile Caloptenus sprehises came 

 from these four an d-a-half-y ear-old eggs. — Industrialist. 



