ijd The West A^nerican Scientist. 



Notes on North American Julidae, with descriptions of 

 new species; by Chas. H. Bollman, from Annals of the N. Y. 

 Acad. Sci , iv, 25 44. 



West Coast Pulmonata, fossil and living; by J G. Cooper, 

 M. D., extract from Bulletin 7, Cala. Acad. Sci. 



Additions to the Birds of Ventura County, Cal., by J. 

 G. Cooper, M. D., from the Auk, iv, ^5-94. 



Nouvelles Remarques sur les Roses Americaines; by F. 

 Crepin, extract from Bull. Soc. Roy. de Bot. de Belgique, 1887. 



Maverick National Bank Manual, 200 pp.. 800. Boston. 

 This statistical book for reference gives an historical sketch ol the 

 national debt, chapters on the credit of nations, state and muni- 

 cipal indebtedness, water works bonds banks and banking, rail- 

 roads, land and agriculture, and on other financial interests of the 

 country, presented in a readable form as well as handy shape for 

 reference. 



THE CENTUR Y EOR A UG US T 



The Century opens with an attractixe paper of holiday adven- 

 ture, having the piquant title of 'Snubbin' Through Jersey.' the 

 object of which is to report the incidents, mishaps, and delights of 

 a unique vacation trip in a canal-boat This narrative, which is to 

 be continued in the September number, will revive the memory of 

 the Tile Club papers, formerly a prominent feature of this maga- 

 zine. 



A paper of more remote adventure is contributed by General 

 A. W. Greely, who described an e[)isode of the Lady Franklin 

 Bay Expedition, under the title of 'Our Kivigtok,' a kivigtok 

 being, in the language of the explorer, a man who has fled mankind 

 and through a solitary life amid nature's surroundings has acquired 

 a gift of clairvoyance. General Greely's paper records much that 

 is curious and interesting in regard to his experience in the polar 

 regions. 



ST NICHOLAS EuR AUGUST 



The number opens with a beautiful frontispiece, by Mary Hal- 

 lock Foote, illustrating some bright verses by Edith M. Thomas, 

 entitled 'Invitation to Echo'; and the illustrator turns author a lit- 

 tle farther on in a charming sketch of Rocky Mountain life, called 

 'An Idaho Picnic,' with more pictures in her characteristic style. 

 Another artist tells his own story with pen as well as pencil in this 

 number. — George Wharton Edwards, who writes and draws pic- 

 tures for 'The Figurehead of the James Starbuck,' a capital sea 

 story told ashore. C F. Holder tells 'How Some Animals Be 

 come Extinct,' with special application to those forms which have 

 disappeared within the history of man. 



