January 27, 1888.J 



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BOOK-NOTES. 



— The January number of the Quarterly 

 Jinirnal of Economics, now in the press, con- 

 tains important articles by Pres. F. A. Walker 

 on the Eleventh Census ; Prof. Arthur T. 

 Hadley on the operations of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission ; and Sidney Webb, 

 lecturer in the City of London College, on the 

 rate of interest. There are also minor arti- 

 cles by Professor Marshall of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity, England, F. B. Hawley, F. W. Taus- 

 sig, and others ; a letter from a Russian uni- 

 versity on the economic literature of Russia ; 

 and a reprint of a curious pamphlet on the 

 London goldsmith-bankers of the seventeenth 

 century. 



— The question whether the wheat of Man- 

 itoba can be transported through Hudson 

 Bay direct to Liverpool is of serious moment 

 to this country as well as to Canada. On 

 this subject, in The American Magazine for 

 Febmary, J. Macdonald O.xley will throw 

 whatever light recent exploring expeditions 

 can afford, aided by illustrations and details 

 of existence in a region where mercury freezes 

 solid. 



— The January Wide Awake is the New 

 Year's issue, a fine holiday number, delight- 

 fully pictorial, giving as it does a dozen of 

 the beautiful pencil-pictures of child-life by 

 the English pencil-artist Warwick Brookes, 

 together with an autograph letter of Mr. Glad- 

 stone's. 



— The Andover Review enters on its ninth 

 volume with a very strong and effective num- 

 ber. As usual, it combines discussion of dis- 

 tinctively theological subjects with studies of 

 social and literary topics. Mr. Pettengill of 

 Portland, Ore., under the title, ' The Mistake 

 of Prohibition,' presents the objection to pro- 

 hibition, that it violates " some of the essen- 

 tial conditions of efficient government under 

 our popular system." Professor Tucker of 

 Andover argues that the power " which is 

 cultivating the making of drunkards as an 

 organized industry" should be controlled, and 

 this can only be effectually done through ' pro- 

 hibition.' Professor Andrews, reviewing Sir 

 Henry Maine's argument as to the ' Prospects 

 of Popular Government,' presents with a clear 

 statement of this author's position a mass 

 of facts from political history corrective of his 

 despondent conclusions. An editorial on ' the- 

 ological pessimism ' is in the same line with 

 Professor Andrews's reasoning. 



— At the Lyceum Theatre, New York, 

 Manager Frohman is still presenting the ad- 

 mirable society-comedy of ' The Wife.' The 

 Mail and Express of TSIew York says, " It is 

 the best new play produced in New York this 

 season and the best American play ever pre- 

 sented." Manager Frohman regards it as 

 the best dramatic effort of his life. 



— In the article on volcanoes in Scribner's 

 Magazine for February there will appear a 

 translation, by Prof. J. G. Croswell, of the 

 famous letters of the younger Pliny to Taci- 

 tus, describing the great eruption of Vesuvius 

 in 63 A.D. It is believed that this is the 

 best translation of these letters which has yet 

 appeared. 



— The critical edition of Goethe's works, 

 issued under the auspices of the Grand 

 Duchess of Saxony, and based on documents 

 not available before the opening of the 

 Goethe Archives at Weimar, has begun to 

 appear. It is published by Hermann Bbh- 

 lan, Weimar. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Biological Society, Washington. 



Jan. \\, Election of Officers. — President, Mr. 

 W. H. Dall ; vice-pvesidents, Dr. C. Hart Mer- 

 riam, Mr. Richard Rathbun, Prof. C. V. Riley, 

 Prof. L. F. Ward ; secretaries, Mr. J. B. 

 Smith and Mr. F. A. Lucas ; treasurer, Mr. 

 F. H, Knowlton ; additsonal members of coun- 

 cil, Dr. T. H. Bean, Prof. O. T. Mason, Prof. 

 R. E. C. Stearns, Mr. F. W. True, and Dr. 

 George Vasey. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



Jan. 21. — Bailey Willis, Determination of 

 Fault Hades ; Robert T. Hill, The Neozoic For- 

 mations in Arkansas ; Romyn Hitchcock, Notes 

 on Eclipse Photography in Japan ; G. K. Gil- 

 bert, The Flat Rock Channel. 



Jan. 25. — A. S. Christie, What is a Quarter- 

 nion ? 



Torrey Botanical Club, New York. 



Jan. 10, Election of Officers. — President, Dr. 

 J. S. Newberry ; treasurer, J. F. Poggenburg ; 

 recording secretary, Arthur Hollick ; corre- 

 sponding secretary. Miss H. C. Gaskin ; cura- 

 tor, Miss M. O. Steele ; librarian. Dr. N. L. 

 Britton ; editor, Mrs. N. L. Britton ; associate 

 editors, Miss E. L. Gregory, Jas. Schrenk, C.H. 

 Kain. Dr. H. H. Rusby, Arthur Hollick. 



Byron D. Halstead, Trigger-Hairs of the 

 Thistle-Flower (Cnicus altissimus); N. L. Brit- 

 ton, Notes on a Collection of Plants made by 

 Mr. W. S. Rusby in the Black Hills ; E. E. 

 Sterns, Notes on Calycanthus. 



New England Meteorological Society. 



Jan. 17. — Desmond FitzGerald, Exhibition 

 of some Theitaometers made by Baudin of 

 Paris ; A. Lawrence Rotch, Exhibition of a 

 New Cloud-Mirror, also a New Aspiration 

 Thermometer ; W. M. Davis, Hann's Meteoro- 

 logical Atlas. 



Boston Society of Natural History. 



Dec. 18. — K. Miyabe, Recent Observations 

 in Regard to the Germination of Seeds under 

 Water ; W. Sturgis. The Absorption of Dilute 

 Coloring Solutions by Germinating Plants ; 

 F. H. Newell, The Fossils of the Niagara 

 Group from Northern Indiana. 



Engi^ieers' Club, St. Louis. 



Jan. 4. — Charles H. Ledlie, Construction of 

 Dam .md Reservoir at Athens, Ga. ; Professor 

 Nipher, The Volt, the Ohm, the Ampere, — 

 What are They ? 



Publications received at Editor's Offic 

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Jan. 



H.WVKEVE Ornithologist and Oologist, The. Vol. I. No. 



I. January, 188S. m. Cresco, lo., Webster & Mead. 



16 p. 8°, 50 cents. 

 Herrick, C. L. Contribution to the Fauna of the Gulf 



of Mexico and the South. Granville, O., Kussmaul 



& Shepardson, Pr. 56 p., pi. f. 

 Locomotive Engineer. Vol. I. No. i. January, 1888. 



m. New York, Amer. Machin. Publ. Co. 16 p. 1°. 



Si. 

 Mining Industry of »few Zealand, Reports on the. Wel- 

 lington, N.Z., Government. 251 p. i°. 

 Pennsylvania School. Vol. I. No. i. January, 188S. 



m. Williamsport, Penn. School Co. 20 p. 8*^. Si. 

 Winchell, S. R. The Interstate Primer Supplement. 



Chicago, Interstate Pubi. Co. 134 p. 16°. 25 cents. 



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