March 2, li 



SCIENCE. 



BOOK-NOTES. 



— Who are the anarchists ? What is their 

 doctrine? Why would they overthrow so- 

 ciety and government, and what do they wish 

 to substitute ? — these are questions fre- 

 quently asked by thoughtful citizens. An 

 article by Z. L. White, in the March number 

 of The American Magazine, will answer 

 such inquiries, and show the depth and viru- 

 lence of the disease of which the Haymarket 

 murders were only a symptom. 



— We have received an extract from 

 Aldeu's 'Manifold Cyclopedia.' The pub- 

 lication is intended to be a cheap cyclopsedia 

 and a dictionary of the English language. As 

 it draws from trustworthy sources, it is re- 

 liable, and the print and the illustrations are 

 good, considering the marvellously low price 

 of fifty cents per volume. 



— T. Y. Crowell & Co. will publish next 

 month ' Taxation in American States and 

 Cities,' by Prof. Richard T. Ely of Johns 

 Hopkins University, a member of the Mary- 

 land Tax Commission. 



— Henry Holt & Co. have just issued, in a 

 handsome volume, ' The Life of Thomas 

 Hopkins Gallaudet,' founder of deaf-mute 

 instruction in America. The work is a very 

 interesting one, and will have interest for 

 others than the deaf and their friends. 



— Brentano's ' New York City ' will issue 

 in a few days a book by Walter Hubbell, the 

 successful exposer of modern Spiritualism, 

 entitled ' The Great Amherst Mystery,' 

 which the author claims is a true narrative 

 of actual experience with ghosts in a haunted 

 house, which he entered intending to expose 

 a fraud, and remained to take the notes 

 which he has now made use of to startle and 

 convince his readers. 



— J. B. Lippincott Co. will issue on March 

 I, in connection with the Edinburgh pub- 

 lishers, the first volume of a new edition of 

 ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' to be complet- 

 ed in ten volumes, following one another at 

 short intervals. The maps will be increased 

 in number, and a special set for the United 

 States introduced. In lighter literature they 

 are preparing ' Stanley's Expedition for the 

 Relief of Emin Pacha;' ' Half-Hours with 

 the Best Foreign Authors,' in four volumes, 

 arranged by Charles Morris ; and the sixth 

 and seventh volumes of Furness's variorum 

 edition of Shakspeare, devoted to ' The Mer- 

 chant of Venice.' 



— An English edition of Babyhood will be 

 begun with the April (1888) number, the 

 magazine being issued simultaneously in 

 London and New York. 



— P. Blakiston, Son, & Co., medical and 

 scientific publishers, booksellers, and import- 

 ers, 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, pub- 

 lished Feb. 24 the sixth edition of ' Memo- 

 randa on Poisons and their Antidotes,' by the 

 late Dr. Thomas Hawkes Tamner, revised by 

 Dr. Henry Liffmann, the medico-legal expert 

 of Philadelphia. They have also just pub- 

 lished ' Practical Physiology, including Chem- 

 ical and Experimental Physiology,' by Prof. 

 William Sterling of Owens College, Man- 



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Chester, illustrated with one hundred and 

 forty-two wood-engravings. 



— The March volumes of Ticknor's Paper 

 Series are as follows : ' Adventures of a 

 Widow,' by Edgar Fawcett ; and ' Indian 

 Summer,' by William D. Howells. 



— Dr. H. C. McCook's charming book on 

 insect-life, ' Tenants of an Old Farm,' having 

 been through several editions here in the 

 hands of Fords, Howard, & Hulbert of New 

 York, has now been brought out in England 

 by Hodder & Stoughton, with an introduc- 

 tion by Sir John Lubbock, the distinguished 

 entomologist. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Anthropological Society, Washington. 

 Feb. 21. — J. Curtin, Myths and Folk-Tales 

 of Ireland. 



Biological Society, Washington. 

 Feb. 25. — Robert T. Hill, The South-west- 

 ern Termination of the Atlantic Timber Belt ; 

 F. W. True, Changes in the Catalogues of 

 North American Mammals since 1879 ; T. H. 

 Bean, Distribution and some Characters of our 

 SabnonidcE ; Cooper Curtice, Some Early Stages 

 in the Life-History oiTcenia pectinata. 



Science Club, Lawrence, Kan. 

 Feb. 24. — V. L. Kellogg, Clays and Kaolin- 

 ite ; Notes on Bacteria in Potable Water ; 

 W. S. Franklin, The Axioms of Geometry. 



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