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Scuumann, C.E., U. 8. Treasury Department. 89 pp. 8vo. New 
York, 1877. (D. Van Nostrand. )—This little book contains the 
formulas and data required by architects and engineers in putting 
to practice in the ac bey af buildings, the theoretical sally 
erism, Suieitoctisi, ete, historically and scientifically 
eeaoty sag being two Lectures delivere a the London Institu- 
tion, with Preface and Appendix; by W ARPENTER, C.B 
E.RS. 15 8 pp. 12mo. New York, is77. “(D. Appleige & Co.) 
—The learned physiologist of Lon don , Dr. Carpenter, has show 
goo = thorough knowledge and excellent ee in sake 
lectures. 
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E.—The number of the Bibliothéque 
Uaivenais fp cesses in ‘Sei Phys. et Nat.) for September, pie iT, 
has its 254 pages occupied with a biographical notice of the emt 
nent Swiss Physicist, Auguste de la Rive, who died, at the age rt 
seventy-two, = the 27th of N ovember, 1873. 
Proteus, or Unity in Nature, by Charles Bland Radcliffe, M.D. 214 pp. 8v0- 
London. ‘(Mac acMillan & Co. 
The Physiology of Mind. By Henry Maudsley, M.D. 544 pp. 8vo. New 
fein (D. Appleton & Co.) 
atetheaial Researe! By William Ferrel. Part I. On the Mechanics 
scat thi, Gomeeuk iasthema ot the Atmosphere. 50 pp. 4to. With 6 charts. U. 5. 
Coast Survey, OC. P. Patterson, Superintendent. Washington. 1877. An en 
tant memoir discussing mathematically, from meteorological data with referen 
to the whole earth’s sorties. 
OBITUARY. 
Ruum«KorrF died in Paris on the 20th of December at the a 
of seventy-four. He gave his first “ Ruhmkorff Coil” to the wor d 
in 1851, and received for it from the French Exhibition in 1855 
prize of 50,000 francs. 
