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eluding Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 

 and seen about all that is worth seeing, in eight weeks and for the moderate sum 

 of five hundred dollars. Cook's patent tours are made now for a much smaller 

 sum, but necessarily with less satisfaction, as the whole trip is on the "right through 

 without change of cars " plan, and we think we should prefer Prof. Burchard's 

 manner of doing it, even at a slightly increased expense. 



Report of the Observations of the Solar Eclipse — July 29, 1878. Made at 

 Fort Worth Texas. 



The party making these observations consisted of Messrs. Leonard Waldo 

 and R. W. Willson, of Harvard College ; Prof. J. K. Rees, of "Washington Uni- 

 versity ; W. H. Pulsifer, of St. Louis, and F. E. Seagrave, of Providence, R. I. 

 The special end in view was the observing and recording of such phenomena as 

 might aid in establishing the correct theory regarding the corona which surrounds 

 the sun during a total eclipse. The observations made at Fort Worth are regarded 

 as particularly valuable, and this report comprises the individual records and cal- 

 culations made by each of the above named gentlemen, and is presented in a 

 handsome quarto volume, published at Cambridge, Mass., illustrated with several 

 photographic illustrations showing different phases of the sun at different periods 

 of the eclipse. We published an abstract of the less technical portion of this re- 

 port in the August, 1878, number of the Review. 



Other books and pamphlets received, which will be noticed hereafter : Pro- 

 ceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Part III, Septem- 

 ber, October, November and December, 1878; edited by Edward J. Nolan, M. 

 D. — Report of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, January 1, 1879. — On 

 the Double Stars discovered by Mr. Alvan G. Clark, by S. W. Burnham, Chi- 

 cago, April, 1879. — Kansas State Historical Society, First Biennial Report, 

 January 21, 1879, by Judge F. G. Adams, Secretary. — The Twelfth Annual Ses- 

 sion of the Missouri Press Association, May, 1878, edited by M. B. Chapman, 

 Secretary. — Speech of Hon. B. J. Franklin, M. C, upon the Indian Question, 

 Oklahoma Territory. — The Silk Worm ; a Manual of Instruction for the Produc- 

 tion of Silk, by Prof. C. V. Riley. — Remarks on Fossil Shells from the Colorado 

 Desert, by Robt. E. C. Stearns, March, 1879. — Address of Prof. J. K. Edgerton, 

 M. D., at Fort Wayne Medical College, on Education and the Medical Profession 

 in Indiana. — The Cultivation of Chemistry, by F. W. Clark, S. B , University of 

 Cincinnati, O., an abstract of which excellent address was published in the Re- 

 view for September, 1878. — Biennial Report of the University of Kansas, 1877-8. 

 — Nineteenth Biennial Report of Board of Managers of Missouri Lunatic Asylum, 

 Fulton, Mo., 1878.— Biennial Report of the State Agricultural College, Man- 

 hattan, Kansas, 1877-8. — Catalogue of Oberlin (Ohio) College, 1878-9. — Kansas 

 City in 1879, McEwen & Dillenback. — Leadville and Ten-Mile, H. T. Wright & 

 Co., 1879, 25c. 



