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ful or self-laudatory statements, but inferentially from the simple thread 
of history. 
On another occasion we may return to this volume for some valuable 
statistics of the scientific departments at Amherst. A full list of Dr. 
Hitchcock’s numerous publications is given, amounting in all to no less 
than 171, of which 24 are distinct volumes and 69 are on scientific 
subjects. 
5. Frick’s Physical Technics.'—We cordially commend this book to 
all teachers of physics and especially to those whose situation or cireum- 
stances cut them off access to a good ¢ollection of physical instru- 
ments. The arrangement of the book follows Miller’s text book, many 
of the figures of apparatus being identical. While the most expert 
demonstrator may gain sore useful hints from Dr. Frick’s book, the less 
experienced teacher and student will find it an invaluable vade mecum in 
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Anthropologie der Naturvolker, by J. T. Corurnewoop, F.G.S., F.RS.L., 
and published for the Anthropological Society of London by Longman, 
Green, Longmans and Roberts.—This work sustains the idea of the 
the Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. ix, 1863.) 
OBITUARY. 
Hewry Firz.—The death of Mr. Henry Fitz has inflicted an almost 
irreparable loss upon that large class of scientific men whose apparatus 
is the product of the optician’s skill, while those who knew him person- 
ally and appreciated his frank and generous character must feel that his 
vacant place cannot be filled. : 
It is not saying too much to assert that Mr. Fitz has done more to pop- 
ularize Astronomy in this country than any other man. In former days 
hitherto enjoyed only in fixed observatories with costly instruments. 
r. Fitz was entirely a self-taught optician, and like his friend and co- 
* Physical 1 ies: or Practical instructions for making experiments in Physics 
and pememenee Ph. sical Apparatus with the most limited means. By Dr. 
J. Frick, Director of the High School in Freiburg, and Professor of Physics in the 
Lyceum. Translated by John D. Easter, Ph.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy 
ity of Georgia. 
and 
1862. 8yo, pp. 467. 
