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BOOK-NOTES. 

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 publication on Saturday, April 7, ' Ancient 

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 ■of Ireland by the late Sir William Wilde, 

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 Landmarks of London,' by Laurence Hut- 

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Calendar of Societies. 



Biological Society, Washington. 



April T.—]. W. Collins, The Work of the 

 Schooner ' Grampus' in Kish-Culture ; Charles 

 D. Wajcott, Cambrian Fossils from Mount 

 Stephens, Noith-west Territory of Canada ; 

 C. V. Riley, Some Notes from Emin Pacha's 

 Travels in Central Africa ; Theobald Smith, 

 The Destruction of Pathogenic Bacteria in the 

 Animal Organism. 



Anthropological Society, Washington. 



April ■i, — H. L. Reynolds, Algonkin Metal 

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Engineers' Club, Philadelphia. 

 March 17. — A. Marichal, Testing of Cements; 

 Frederic H. Robinson, Manufacture of Gun- 

 powder ; J. W. Redvvay, Explosion of Gunpow- 

 der ; L. F. Rondmella, Incandescent Electric 

 Lighting. 



American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 

 Ne'w York. 



April lo. — John W. Howell, Maximum Effi- 

 ciency of Incandescent Lamps. 



Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston. 



April II. — Henry Ballaniine, A Trip to 

 Nepal through the Himalayas ; R. B. Law- 

 rence. George H. Witherle's E,\ploring Trips, 

 in 1884-86, to Ktaadn, the Sourdnahunk Moun- 

 ■tains, and the Region between. 



Missouri State University Club. 

 April 2. — C. G. Tiedemann, The Modern 

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Engineers'' Club, St. Louis, 

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York, Scribner. 276 p. 16°. §1.25. 

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York, Macmillan. 250 p. i2». $1.50. 

 Mc.^NALLY, D. R., jun. Irish Wonders. Boston and 



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 MacCord, C. W. Practical Hints for Draughtsmen. 



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 MoUTONNlKR, C. Pour Apprendre a Parler Francais. 



New York, Holt, igi p. 12°. 

 New Jersey, Annual Report of the State Geologist of, 



for the Year 1887 Trenton, State. 45 p. 8°. 

 RoLLESTON, G. Forms of Animal Life. 2d ed., revised 



by W. Hatchett Jackson. Oxford, Clarendon Pr. 



(New York, Macmillan, S9.) 

 Stuckenberg, J. H. W. Introduction to the Study of 



Philosophv. New York, A. C. Armstrong & Son. 



422 p. 8°. $2. 

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