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been somewhat changed, heavy type being 

 employed for the leading terms, while syn- 

 onyms and subordinate words are put in 

 small capitals — a modification which af- 

 fords greater facility of reference. Taken 

 as a whole, the work is much superior to 

 any other of the kind we know of in the 

 language, and no medical library can be 

 considered complete without it. 



Schem's Statistics of the World. Edited 

 by Prof. Alexander J. Schem. New 

 York : G. J. Moulton, 1873. 



This is a semi-annual publication, giving 

 the facts and figures of the world's affairs, 

 boiled down even to the point of desiccation. 

 The matter is arranged in the form of ta- 

 bles, giving, for each country, its area, the 

 name of its present ruler, population, debt, 

 army and navy, imports and exports, prod- 

 ucts, coin values, weights and measures, 

 capitals, and principal cities, together with 

 railway, educational, and religious statistics. 

 The facts, we are told, are collated from the 

 latest reports, and the method of presenta- 

 tion, so far as convenience is concerned, 

 appears to be a good one. With all its 

 concentration, however, we notice some ap- 

 parently needless repetitions. For example, 

 after giving a list of the successful presi- 

 dential candidates in the United States, from 

 the foundation of the government, with the 

 vote cast for each, their names are given 

 over again on another page, with the State 

 they were from, and the time of service of 

 each, information which might more prop- 

 erly have gone into a single table. An excel- 

 lent feature is the comparison of the weights 

 and measures of each country with the 

 French and English standards ; their coin- 

 values are also given in dollars and cents. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



On the Early Stages of Terebratulina Sep- 

 tentrionalis. By Edward S. Morse, Ph. D. 

 10 pages, with Illustrations. 



Transactions of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers. November, 1873. 48 

 pages. 



A Description of New Instruments for 

 making Examinations and Applications to 

 Cavities of the Nose, Throat, and Ear. By 



Thomas F. Rumbold, M. D. St. Louis, 

 1873. 16 pages, with Illustrations. 



Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natu- 

 ral Sciences, vol. i., No. 3, pages 129-184. 

 Illustrated. 



The Function of the Eustachian Tube. 

 By Thomas F. Rumbold, M. D. St. Louis, 

 1873. 40 pages. 



Second Biennial Report of the San Fran- 

 cisco Park Commissioners for 1872-73. San 

 Francisco, 1874. 94 pages. Illustrated. 



On the Structure and Affinities of the 

 Brontotheridae. By Prof. C. C. Marsh. 8 

 pages. Illustrated. 



Johnston's Dental Miscellany. A Month- 

 ly Journal of American and Foreign Dental, 

 Surgical, Chemical, and Mechanical Litera- 

 ture. New York, January, 1874, vol. i., 

 No. 1, 38 pages. 



On the Geology of Western Wyoming. 

 By Theo. B. Comstock, B. S. 8 pages. 



Transactions of the Michigan State 

 Medical Society. Lansing, 1873. 170 pages. 



The Larynx the Source of the Yowel 

 Sounds. By Thomas Brian Gunning. New 

 York, 1874. 29 pages. 



MISCELLANY. 



England and Ameriea. — Prof. Tyndall 

 writes as follows to the editor of the London 

 Daily Telegraph : Sir — You have given me 

 a challenge, to which I willingly respond. 

 In a speech, to which I had the honor of 

 listening just before my departure from 

 America, Hon. William M. Evarts used these 

 words : " There is a generous and perfect 

 sympathy between the educated men of 

 England and the educated men of the United 

 States. The small matters of difference and 

 political interests which divide these two 

 great countries are nothing to the immense 

 area of uniform and common objects and 

 interests which unite their people." 



On the same occasion, Dr. John W. 

 Draper, celebrated alike as an, historian and 

 scientific discoverer, concluded a speech in 

 these words : " Nowhere in the world are to 

 be found more imposing political problems 

 than those to be settled here — nowhere a 

 greater need of scientific knowledge. I am 



