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this volume, several deserve wide circulation and careful reading. Mrs. 
Cora S. Stuart Jones, of Roxbury, contributes a very strong article on 
““Practical Nature Study for the Publie Schools’’. The important work 
performed by the Arnold Arboretum is clearly portrayed by John G. 
Jack, Jamaica Plain. Hints on the culture of Orchids, by Wm. N. 
Craig, North Easton, is well written. Dr: G.-P. Clinton, New Haven, 
presents a succinct history of ‘‘The Study of Parasitic Fungi in the 
United States’’. ‘‘The Protection of Native Plants’’, by Robert T. 
Jackson, Cambridge, also merits more attention than our space permits. 
The gladiolus and peonies are treated by authorities and the volume 
closes with a long and fully illustrated paper by Robert T. Jackson, on 
‘“John Richardson; His House and Garden’’. Of these, the author re- 
marks: ‘‘He was a rare old man, it was ‘a rare old house, and a rare 
old garden,’’ ete., and the text and engravings fully bear out the state- 
ment. . 
Annals of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum, Vol. III, No. 1., Dec., 1904, 
contains four valuable papers, besides interesting notes of progress in 
museum work. The death of Mr. J. B. Hatcher, who had charge of the 
Department of Paleontology, is a serious loss to science, ,as well as to the 
Museum. A quaint historical document is the ‘‘ Minute or Order Book 
of the Court for Ohio Co., Virginia,’’ at Black’s Cabin (now West Lib- 
erty, W. Va.) from 1777 until 1780, the period just before the end of 
Virginia’s jurisdiction over a part of Pennsylvania. Two articles on 
Paleontology, well illustrated, are furnished by Perey E. Raymond and 
O. P. Hay, the former on ‘‘The Tropidoleptus Fauna at Canandaigua 
Lake, N. Y.,’’ the other ‘‘On Two Species of Turtles From the Judith 
River Beds of Montana’’. The closing paper is by P. Modestus Wirtner, 
giving ‘‘A Preliminary List of the Hemiptera of Western Pennsylvania’’. 
Mining Magazine for January has a good array of timely articles. A 
sketch of John Hays Hammond, with portrait, by Dr. Leonard Waldo, 
is followed by Robt. H. Postlethwaite’s contribution on ‘‘Gold Dredging 
and Prospecting’’, which is a fair review of the subject, well illustrated. 
C. W. Purington treats of ‘‘The Saving of Alluvial Gold in Alaska and 
the Kiondike.’’ Emile Guarini reviews ‘‘German Electrical Installations 
for Mine Drainage and Ventilation’’. Waldemar Lindgren briefly out- 
lines the working of the ‘‘Deep Leads of Victoria’’. Dr. H. Bradley, 
Jr., likewise presents ‘‘Mining in Bolivia’’, and Enrique Laroza ‘‘ Gold 
and Copper Mining in Peru’’. All these papers are from authorities 
and the illustrations are excellent, much ‘better than in earlier issues of 
the Magazine. The Mining Digest this month is very full, covering 
thirty-five pages. 
A valuable and interesting monograph is Baron Kikuchi’s quarto pub- 
lication (for private circulation only) which has come to us through the 
esteemed courtesy of the Japanese Imperial Commissioner at the World’s 
Fair, St. Louis. From it we learn that nearly 1,400 earthquakes are 
recorded annually in Japan, averaging one each week in Tokyo alone. 
But, in a circular accompanying the volume, Professor Kikuchi asserts 
that ‘‘only once or twice a year at most, do people in Tokyo have ocea- 
sion to feel even temporary and slight alarm, and yet Tokyo is the most 
disturbed region of Japan’’. It is simple justice to say that one cannot 
do justice to this important scientific contribution within the limits here 
prescribed. It is a clear, methodical, and eminently readable treatise, 
well and lavishly illustrated, and should open the eyes of such as dream 
that Japan is dreaming in the realm of the constructive and inductive 
sciences. We consider this brilliant publication a model well worthy of 
emulation in its literary quality and its orderly presentation of well 
digested information. 
