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gust 29, 1886, made by Prof. W. H. Picker- 

 ing, with the aid of volunteer assistants, on 

 the island of Grenada, in the West Indies. 

 The account is accompanied by four plates. 

 No. VII of the same volume is a record of A 

 Photographic Determination of the Bright- 

 ness of the Stars, all of the measures in- 

 volved in this work, the identification of the 

 stars, and the numerical computations hav- 

 ing been made, with few exceptions, by 

 Mrs. M. Fleming. The paper contains a 

 catalogue of 1,009 close polar stars, one of 

 420 stars in the Pleiades, and one of 1,131 

 equatorial stars. Part I of Vol. XX is a 

 record of Observations made at the Blue Hill 

 Meteorological Observatory in the Year 1887, 

 and is introduced by a description of the 

 observatory and its work, by A. Lawrence 

 Botch, S. B., its proprietor and director. 

 Mr. H. Helm Clayton is the observer. The 

 Observatory of Harvard College now co-op- 

 erates with the Blue Hill Observatory by 

 publishing the observations of the latter, 

 and a consolidation of the two institutions 

 is contemplated. The present record com- 

 prises tables of hourly values of atmospheric 

 pressure, air temperatures, wind azimuths 

 and movements, precipitation, bright sun- 

 shine, cloud observations, etc., etc. There 

 are six plates showing tracings by self- 

 registering instruments, and a view of the 

 observatory. The Third Annual Report of 

 the Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra, 

 conducted at the Harvard College Observa- 

 tory, and constituting the Henry Draper 

 Memorial, sketches briefly the progress of 

 the work during 1888. 



The fourth number of the Proceedings of 

 the American Society for Psychical Research 

 (Damrell & Upham, $1) is a pamphlet of 

 about three hundred pages, nearly a third of 

 which is devoted to the report of the com- 

 mittee on phantasms and presentiments, by 

 Prof. J. Royce. The report contains ac- 

 counts of a large number of cases, with 

 corroborative evidence, and an estimate of 

 their value. A record of experiments in 

 thought transference is contributed by Mr. 

 and Mrs. John F. Brown, and a report upon 

 "the diagram tests," by Prof. C. S. Minot. 

 The theory of telepathy is discussed by Mr. 

 Hodgson and Prof. Minot. The report of 

 the committee on mediumistic phenomena is 

 instructive, in spite of its brevity, for it men- 



tions as an obstacle to this work that medi- 

 ums which have been recommended to the 

 attention of the committee are constantly 

 being shown up as impostors. Still, the 

 committee has made some investigations, 

 which it is not ready to report, and hopes 

 to make more. 



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