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in utter darkness, when the star dust on which we are now looking will quicken 
with the pulse of physical life, throw off its concentric rings, and concentrate into 
beaming suns and systems to take the place of those whose race is run, whose mis- 
sion is fulfilled. — Scientific American. 
BOOK NOTICES. 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Part 
III, October to December, 1882; octavo, pp. 160; Philadelphia, 1883. 
This Part comprises the thirty-fourth volume of the Proceedings of the Phil- 
adelphia Academy, which has had a long and useful career. Most of the leading 
scientific men of this and former generations of Philadelphians have been mem- 
bers of it, and it has put forth some notable volumes based upon original investi- 
gations and discoveries. 
The present volume contains contributions by such distinguished writers and 
students as Professors E. D. Cope, Heilprin, Leidy, Meehan, Carvill, Rev. H. 
C. McCook, Dr. Harrison Allen, etc.; also full reports by the various officers, 
showing the institution to be in a very flourishing condition. 
The officers for 1883 are Prof. Joseph Leidy, M. D., President; Thomas 
Meehan and Rev. H. C McCook, Vice Presidents; E. J. Nolan, M D., Re- 
cording Secretary and Librarian; George H. Horn, M. D., Corresponding Secre- 
tary, and William C. Henzey, Treasurer. 
History of the Negro Race in America : by Geo. W. Williams ; Vol. I, 
Octavo, pp. 481. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1883. For sale by M. 
H. Dickinson. * 
Llaving referred quite fully to the general scope of this work in the April 
number of the Review, it is unnecessary to recur to it or to repeat the favorable 
comments then made upon the ability and skill manifested by the author in 
handling his subject. The present volume is devoted to an account of the negro 
race in America between the years 16 19 and 1800. Commencing with the unity 
of mankind and considering the subject in the light of philology, ethnology and 
Egyptology, the author proceeds to discuss primitive negro civilization, the negro 
kingdoms of Africa, the Ashantee Empire, African idiosyncrasies, languages, 
literature and religion, Sierra Leone, the Republic of Liberia, etc. 
In Part II he considers the history of slavery in the Colonies of Virginia, 
New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 
New Jersey, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Georgia, giving 
the laws regulating slavery in each and many other facts which have been collect- 
ed with great pains, and carefully condensed. 
