March 23, 1888.J 



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BOOK-NOTES. 

 — ' Recent Developments of Electricity as 

 an Industrial Art,' by Schuyler S. Wheeler, 

 is the subject of a four-page supplement in 

 the number of Harper's Weekly published 

 recently. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. of Boston will issue 

 soon ' Ten Years of Massachusetts,' by Ray- 

 mond L. Bridgman. It pictures the develop- 

 ment of the Commonwealth as seen in its 

 laws, regarding the laws as the expression of 

 the ' common sense ' of the people. They 

 also publish, March lo, Emile Souvestre's 'Un 

 Philosophe Sous Les Toits,' edited by Prof. 

 W. H. Eraser of the University of Toronto. 

 The ' Philosophe ' was awarded a prize by 

 the Erench Academy, as a work calculated 

 to promote the advancement of morality. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Philosophical Society^ Washington. 



March 17. — John Murdoch, An Arch of Ice 

 formed by Horizontal Pressure ; H. G. Ogden. 

 Distortion in Plane-Table Sheets ; William 

 Hallock, The Flow of Solids. 



Engineers Chtb, Philadelphia. 



March. 3. — A. Wells Robinson, Dredging 

 Machinery ; C. Henry Roney, The Printing 

 Telegraph Apparatus of the International Print- 

 ing Telegrapli Co.; Morris P. Janney, An Elec- 

 tric Water Level Indica-or, for Steam Boilers. 



Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 New Haven. 



March 21. — Simeon E. Baldwin, The Roman 

 and American Law of Undutiful Wills. 



Boston Society of Natttral History. 



March 21. — F. W. Putnam, The Great Ser- 

 pent Mound in Adams County, O. ; J. Walter 

 Fewkes, Origin of the Present Form of the Ber- 

 mudas. 



Society of Arts, Boston ■ 



March 22. — T. M. Drown, Chemical Analy- 

 sis of Drinking-Water ; William F. Chester, 

 Johnson Heat Regulating System. 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 Boston. 



March 14. — David G. Lyon, Historical 

 Study at Babylon in the Sixth Century, B. C. ; 

 Edward S. Ritchie, An Instrument for Deter- 

 mining the Direction and Velocity of Water- 

 Currents below the Surface. 



Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston. 



March 14. — Percival Lowell, An Ascent of 

 Shirane San, Japan ; Edward S. Holden and 

 R. B. Lawrence, The Lick Observatory. 



March 20. — J. Ritchie, jun., Account of 

 the Winter Trip to Jackson, N.H. ; Joseph H. 

 Sears, A Trip through the Jotunheim Moun- 

 tains, Norway. 



Engineers' Club, St. Louis, 



March 7. — Professor Gale, Transmission of 

 Power by Belting. 



Science Club, Lawrence, Kan. 



March g. — F. B. Miller, Experience on a 

 District Telegraph ; Harry Buckingham, The 

 Argo Smelter ; E. H. S. Bailey, The Constitu- 

 tion of Matter. 



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