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— ' The Building of a Railway ' — the first 

 •of a series of railroad articles to begin in the 

 June number of Scribners Magazine — is 

 said to be a remarkably succinct and enter- 

 taining description of the whole process of 

 railway construction, from the engineer's pre- 

 liminary survey to the final laying of the 

 track. 



— Messrs. Ticknor & Co. announce for im- 

 mediate issue revised editions of 1888, of 

 their guide-books of New England, White 

 Mountains, and the Maritime Provinces. The 

 June volumes of Ticknor's Paper Series will 

 be as follows : ' Sons and Daughters,' by the 

 author of ' The Story of Margaret Kent ' and 

 ■■Queen Money;' and 'Agnes Surriage,' by 

 Edwin Lassetter Bynner. 



Kan.; Bi'd-Migration in Kansas; E. H, S. 

 Bailey, Relation lietvveen Acid Taste and 

 Strengdi of Ac.ds ; W. S. Franklin, An Exten- 

 sion of Founier's Theorem ; A Soap-Bubble 

 Electronnetcr ; A RecordingChronograph ; Miss 

 Gertrude Crotty, Dissection of the Iliac Artery ; 

 E. Miller, Methods in Analytical Geometry ; 

 L. I. Blake and E. F. Stimpson, Resistance of 

 Defective Joints cut from the Lawrence Elec- 

 tric Light Circuits ; L. L. Dyche, Notes on 

 Mounting Mammals ; H. L. Raymond, Com- 

 mercial Sirup Iodide of Iron ; E, C. Murphy, 

 Position of Moving Load which produces Maxi- 

 mum in Bending Beams and Arch Rib?; C. E. 

 Springer, Experiment on Failure of Retaining 

 Walls ; W. S. Franklin and V. L. Kellogg, The 

 Perception of Time ; The Psychology of Match- 

 ing Pennies. 



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Calendar of Societies. 



Biological Society, Washington. 



May 19. — F. W. True, The Hawaiian Bat ; 

 William T. Hornaday, Man-Eating Crocodiles ; 

 C Hart Merriam, A Revision of the Dipodidce ; 

 E. A. Lucas, The Affinities of Chamaa. 



Anthropological Society, Washington. 



May 15. • — Francis La Flesche, Funeral Cus- 

 toms of the O nahas ; Garrick iMallery, Algon- 

 kin GLphs on Bark and Stone. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



yl/ajl/ 26. — Robert T. Edes, The .Sphygmo- 

 graph ; H. A, Hazen, The Recent Mount Ver- 

 non, 111., Tornado ; Merwin-Marie Snell, Ob- 

 servations on Certain Hypnotic Experiments of 

 the Comte de Maricourt ; E. D. Cope, The Re- 

 Jation of Consciousness \\< Animal Motion. 



Na-tural Science Association, Staten Island, 



May 12. — William T. Uavis, Entomological 

 Noies; Samuel Henshaw, Discovery of a Wild 

 Rabbit's Nest in a Small Pile of Tobacco- 

 ^items. 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 Boston. 



May 29 — William Everett, Biographica 

 Notice of the Late Hugh A. J. Munro ; Arthu 

 Searle, Biogiaphical Notice of the Late Alvan 

 Chuk. 



Engineers'' Club, St. Louis. 



May i5. — Charles F. White, The Failure or 

 a Firmenich Boiler; Louis Stocl-cti, A Well 

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University Science Club, Topeka, Kan. 



Afoy 2S. — F. H. Snow, The Dicoveiy and Sig- 

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 of the D ikota ; F. O. Marvin, No e on Mag- 

 netic Variation in Kansas ; L. E, Sayre, Isola- 

 tion of Alkaloids ; The Rosin Weed ; V. L. 

 Kellogg, A List of Birds of Estrs Park, Colo- 

 rado ; Notes on the Geology of Lyon County, 



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