BOOK NOTICES. 321 



First Annual Report of the Winchester Observatory. By the astrono- 

 mer in charge of the Horological and Thermometrical Bureaus, 1880-81. 



This Bureau possesses the most approved instruments known to modern 

 science, including a fine transit, for correcting chronometers, clocks, watches 

 and thermometers. Hitherto this work has been largely done abroad, instruments 

 being sent to Kew, and elsewhere, but the authority of the Winchester Observa- 

 tory has recently been accepted as final. Fifty thermometers of physicians, taken 

 from actual practice, have been examined during the past year, whose errors ex- 

 ceeded a degree and a half. The report states that " there have been, compara- 

 tively, but few physicians' thermometers made in this country which have united- 

 accurate graduation of the scale with the requisite age of tube, necessary to pre- 

 clude further sensible changes, and there is little doubt that the great majority of 

 physicians' thermometers now in use in the United States are from one-half tO' 

 two degrees high in their indications. 



Papers of the Arch^ological Institute of America. (American Series.) 

 By A. F. Brandelier. 



This volume contains two papers: i. Historical Introduction to Studies- 

 among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico. 2. Report on the Ruins of the 

 Pueblo or Pecos. 



The I2TH AND I3TH ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE PeABODY MuSEUM OF AMER- 

 ICAN Archeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, Mass., are now in 

 press. 



These volumes will contain several valuable essays on subjects connected 

 with American Archaeology. Of these essays the one by Mr. Schumacher 

 on " The Method of Making Pottery and Baskets by the Indians of Southern 

 California," and another by Hon. Lewis H. Morgan, "Description of an Ancient 

 Stone Pueblo on the Animas River, New Mexico," will be of special interest to 

 those engaged in the study of the beginnings of the arts among the aborigines of 

 America. 



Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works. By Clara Erskine 

 Clement and Laurence Hutton, is a hand-book of biographical sketches of 

 American and European artists of the present century, numbering in all 

 2,050 names. , 



This work is really, as it is described, "a perfect cyclopedia of information 

 concerning the lives, styles, schools, and works " of artists of the period it pur- 

 ports to coVer. " Including so many subjects," says the prospectus, " it cannot 

 within the limits of two volum'es discuss artists and schools of Art exhaustively % 



