February io, 1888. | 



SCIENCE. 



BOOK-NOTES. 



— 'Harvard Reminiscences ' is tlie forth- 

 coming book by the Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, 

 preacher to the university, and one of tlie 

 best-beloved and venerated men in America. 

 For a quarter of a century he has been a high 

 officer in the college ; and it is two-thirds of 

 a century since he first became connected 

 with Harvard, — first as student, and then as 

 tutor. The book includes bright little mono- 

 graphs on scores of the college officers of the 

 last half-century or more, such men as Fel- 

 ton. Palfrey, Kirkland, Clarke, Hedge, and 

 Norton, besides many less well known. It is 

 rich in characterization and anecdote and 

 reminiscence, and will be treasured by all 

 Harvard men, students or graduates. The 

 frontispiece is a portrait of the gentle scholar, 

 Dr. Peabody. The book will be brought out 

 by Ticknor & Co. in February. 



— Mr. David A. Wells, we understand, 

 devotes the ninth article of his valuable 

 series on economic disturbances to a discus- 

 sion of the labor-question. It will appear in 



77;.? Popular Science Monthly for March, 

 and promises to be the most important con- 

 tribution that has lately been made to a 

 problem which is now facing the industrial 

 interests of the world. 



— Franklin Leonard Pope, an authority in 

 •electrical affairs, will contribute to the March 

 number of Scribner's Magazine a paper on 

 the electric motor and its applications, which 

 is a complete account, in brief compass, of 

 the origin and development of the use of 

 electricity as a motive power. It will be fully 

 illustrated. 



— Mr. Charles Mackay, LL.D., is about to 

 publish his ' Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, 

 upon which he has been engaged for several 

 years. It gives the more important words, 

 with their meanings and etymological deriva- 

 tions, together with an introduction dealing 

 with the historical and literary development 

 of the language, and an appendix of Scottish 

 proverbs. 



— Forty-two years ago the old Horticul- 

 turist, under Andrew Jackson Downing, sig- 

 nalled the birth of American horticulture. 

 Later that magazine was united with the 

 Gardener s Monthly, which, under Thomas 

 Meehan, has for thirty years been the leading 

 exponent of gardening and rural improve- 

 ment on this continent. On Jan. 1 1 the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly and Horticulturist of Phil- 

 adelphia, incident to the death of its pub- 

 lisher, Mr. Charles H. Marot, was sold to, 

 and will at once be consolidated with, The 

 American Garden of New York. The re- 

 sult will be an enlarged, handsome quarto, 

 illustrated monthly journal of gardening, 

 within the reach of all lovers of nature. 



— An influential newspaper says that " the 

 approaching suspension of Harper's Frank- 

 lin-Square Library indicates the close of a 

 regrettable period of American book-making. 

 On the other hand, the long-continued suc- 

 cess of Ticknor's Paper Series of original 

 copyright American stories, proves the sagaci- 

 ty of the scheme for providing the best liter- 

 ature in legible and dignified shape, and at a 

 price within the reach of all readers." The 



continued success of Ticknor's Paper Series 

 of original copyright novels will doubtless be 

 still further assured by the volumes to be 

 added thereto during the month of January, 

 which include ' Beatrix Randolph,' by Julian 

 Hawthorne, and ' A Fearful Responsibility,' 

 by William D. Howells. 



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BAiRt), Spencer F., Report of, for the Year 1886-87. 



Washington, Government. 27 p. 8*^. 

 Ballou, M. M. Under the Southern Cross ; or. Travels 



in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and 



other Pacific Islands. Boston, Ticknor. 405 p. 12*. 



$1.50. 

 Bannatyne, D. J. Handbook of Republican Institutions 



in the United States of America. New York, Scrib- 



ner & Welford. 624 p. 16°. 

 Beaun, M. Das zootomische Practicum. Eine Anlei- 



tung zur Ausfiihrung zoologischer Untersuchungen. 



Stuttgart, Enke. 248 p. 8°. (New York, Stechert, 



$2 60.J 

 Campbell. V. J. Lifle Poems for Little Children. 



Chicago. Interstate Publ. Co. _ 203 p. 16". 

 Collectors' Illustrated Magazine. Vol. I. No. i. 



January, i883. m. Riverside, Cal., E. M. Haight. 



12 p. 8°. 50 cents. 

 Congress : a Monthly Journal devoted to the Arts of 



Civilization. Vol. I. No. i. February, 188S. 



Washington. Congress Publ. Co. 20 p. f°. $1. 

 Day, D. T. Mineral Resources of the United .states, 



1886. Washington, Government SI^p. 8°. 

 De Baby, A. Lectures on Bacteria. 2d ed. Tr. by 



H. E. F. Garnsey. Rev. by I. R. Balfour Oxford, 



Clarendon Pr. 193 p. 12°. (New York, Macmillan, 



$1.50.) 

 Drobisch, M. W. Neue Darstellung der Logik pach 



ihren Einfachsten Verhaltnissen. 5th ed, Hamburg, 



Voss. 247 p 8°. (New York. Stechert, Si. 50.) 

 Du Prel, C. Diemonistische Seelenlehre. Ein Beitrag 



zur Losung des Menschenratsels. Leipzig, Giinther. 



378 p. 8°. (New York, Stechert, S2.20.) 

 ElCKEN, H. v. Geschichte und System der Mittelalter- 



lichen Weltanschauung. Stuttgart, Cotta. 822 p. 



8°. (New York, Stechert, $4.40.) 

 Freethought. a Liberal Journal. Vol. I. No. I. w. 



San Francisco, Cal., S. P. Putnam & G. E. Mac- 



donald. 12 p. 4°. S2. 

 Gr.\etz, L, Compendium der Physik. Leipzig und 



Wien, Toeplitz & Deuticke. 326 p. 8°. (New 



York, Stechert, §2.60.) 

 Haberlandt, G. Ueber die Beziehungen zwischen 



Function und Lage des Zellkernes bei den Pflanzen. 



Jena, Fischer. 135 p. 8°. (New York, Stechert, 



$1.35.) 

 Hellvvald, F, von Die menschliche Familie nach 



ihrer Entstehung und natiirlichen Entwickelung, 



Lief I. Leipzig, Gunther. 64 p. 8°. (New York, 



Stechert. 40 cents,) 

 Herr, J. P. Lehrbuch der spharischen Astronomic in 



ihrer anwendung auf geographische Ortsbestimmung. 



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Stechert, Ss.go.) 

 HuFFCUT, E. W. English in the Preparatory Schools, 



Boston, Heath. 28 p. 16°. 

 Keller, C. Reisebilder aus Ostafrika und Madagaskar. 



Leipzig, Winter. 341 p. 8°. (New York, Stech- 



Kerz, F. Plaudereien ijber die Kant-Laplace'sche Nebu- 



larhypothese. Jena, Schenk. 103 p. 8°. (New 



York, Stechert, Si, 10,) 

 Merriman, M. A Text-Book on Roofs and Bridges. 



Part I. Stresses in Simple Trusses. New York, 



Wiley. 118 p. 8°. $2.50. 

 Morgan. Mary. Poems and Translations. Montreal, 



J. T. Robinson. 195 p, 16^. 

 Oliver, J. A. W,. ed. Astronomy for Amateurs. New 



York, Longmans, Green & Co 316 p, 12°. $2,25, 

 Pechuel-Loesche. Dr. Kongoland. I Amtliche 



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York, Stechert, S3-70.) 

 Penck, A. Das Deutsche Reich, Leipzig, Freytag 



618 p. 4°. (New York, Stechert, Sii.) 

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8°, (New York, Stechert, $4,40.) 

 PouLSSON, E. Stories for Little Readers. Chicago 



Interstate Publ. Co. 48 p. 16'. 

 Salomons, D. Management of Accumulators and P; 



vate Electric Light Installations. 3d ed. New 



York, Van Nostrand. 150 p. 16*^. 

 Schmidt, K. W, Sansibar. Ein oslafrikanisches Cultur- 



bild. Leipzig, Brockhaus. 1S4 p. 8°. (New York, 



Stechert, $1.65.) 

 Soyaur. H. Deutsche Arbeit in Afrika. Erfahrungen 



und Betrachtungen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 182 p. 



8°. (New York, Stechert, $1.35.) 

 U. S War Department. Annual Report of the Chief 



Signal Officer of the Army to the Secretary of War 



for the Year 1886. Washington, Government. 500 p. 



8°. 

 Weinhold, A. F. Physikalische Demonstrationen. 



2d ed. Leipzig, Quandt & Handel. 739 p. 8°. 



(New York, Stechert, 88,25.) 

 WlNDEKER, U. Allerhand Neue und alte Gedanken 



iiber die Welt-Ordnung. Berlin, Bohne. 112 p. 8°. 



(New York, Stechert, 80 cents.) 

 Woodward, F. C. English in the Schools. Boston, 



Heath. 25 p. 16°. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Philosophical Society^ Washington. 



Pell. 4. — C. F. Marvin, A New Self-record- 

 ing Rain-Gauge ; J. S. Billings, Gallon's Appa- 

 ratus for testing Muscular Sense ; H. H. Bates, 

 Increasing Industrial Employment of the Rarer 

 Metals ; F. W. Clarke, The Determination of 

 Atomic Weights. 



Peb. 8. — Artemas Martin, On Square Num- 

 bers wliose Sum is a Square ; R. S. Woodward, 

 On the Variation of Terrestrial Density, Grav- 

 ity, and Pressure according to the Laplacian 

 Law. 



Prirdue Scientific Society, Lafayette, Ind. 

 Jan. 23. — J. H. Smart, Topography of Hol- 

 land ; A. L. Green, Chocolate, Cocaine, and 

 Cocoanut. 



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