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shape of a " Review " after each chapter of demonstrations and principles. This, 

 to our notion, is the natural and proper order and one which is just the reverse 

 of the method of the arithmeticians of our school-days. 



This Course is unusually full, extending from numeration to mensuration, and 

 closing with tables of Insurance, compound interest, miscellaneous estimates, 

 etc. The work is comprehensive, practical and of logical arrangement and will 

 doubtless become popular wherever introduced. 



Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1877. Edited by Spencer 

 F. Baird, with the assistance of eminent men of science. New York, Har- 

 per & Brothers, 1878. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, successor to Matt. 

 Foster & Co., $2.00 



This familiar visitor, the seventh of the present series and the twenty-seventh 

 of a series commenced in 1850 and known as the Annual of Scientific Discovery, 

 made its appearance upon our table several weeks since ; too late, however, for 

 notice in the July Review. Professor Baird has somewhat changed the plan of 

 the work as heretofore published, by summarizing the work done by societies 

 and individuals instead of giving abstracts of important papers, reports, &c. 

 This has been rendered absolutely necessary to avoid extending the size of the 

 volume beyond bounds; otherwise, it would to us seem an objectionable change. 

 The subject of Astronomy has been worked up and arranged by Professor 

 Holden, of the United States Naval Observatory; that of Physics of the Globe, 

 by Professor Cleveland Abbe, of the Weather Bureau; those of Physics and 

 Chemistry, by Professor George F. Barker, of the University of Pennsylvania; 

 that of Mineralogy, by Professor Edward S. Dana, of Yale College ; that of Geol- 

 ogy, by Professor T. Sterry Hunt, of the Institute of Technology, Boston; those 

 of Geography and Hydrogaphy, by Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Green, U. S. 

 N.; that of the Geography of North America, by Professor S. H. Scudder, of 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts; Microscopy, by Professor Hamilton L. Smith, Ho- 

 bart College; Anthropology, by Professor Otis T. Mason, Columbian Univer- 

 sity; Zoology, by Professor A. S. Packard, Jr., Peabody Academy of Science; 

 Botany, by Professor W. G. Farlow, Harvard College; Agriculture and Rural 

 Economy, by Professor W. O. Atwater, Wesleyan University; Engineering, 

 Technology and Industrial Statistics, by Professor W. H. Wahl, Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania ; Bibliography, by Professor Theo. Gill, of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tute. All of these gentlemen stand at the head of their respective departments 

 and their work can be relied upon as accurate, comprehensive and brought down 

 to the most recent dates. In many respects this volume is superior to any of its 

 predecessors, and the series has no equal in the scientific world for completeness, 

 whether in design or execution. 



Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States. — By David 

 Starr Jordan, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Natural History in Butler Uni- 



