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Lowell, James Russell. Conversations on some 

 of the Old Poets. Philadelphia: David McKay. 

 Pp. 294. 



Mcllvaine, Charles. The Deadly and Minor 

 Poisons of Toadstools. Detroit, Mich.: George 

 S. Davis. Pp. 14. 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- 

 ton. Department of Naval Architecture. Pp.15. 



Merton, H. W. Descriptive Mentality. Pp. 

 100. 



Metropolitan Museum of Art. Schools. Pro- 

 spectus, 1893-'94. Pp. 17. 



Migula, Dr. W. Introduction to Practical 

 Bacteriology. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 247. $1.60. 



Montadon, A. L. Notes on American Hemip- 

 tera Heteroptera. United States National Mu- 

 seum. Pp. 8. 



Murphy, J. J. Natural Selection and Spiritual 

 Freedom. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 241. $1.75. 



The Niagara Book. Illustrated. Announce- 

 ment. Buffalo : Underbill & Nichols. 



Nisbet, John. British Forest Trees. Mac- 

 mDlan & Co. Pp. 352. $2.50. 



Osann, A., and Streeruwitz, W. Reports on 

 Transpecos, Texas. Geological Survey of Texas. 

 Austin. Pp. 56, with Plates. 



Owen, "Francis Browning." Columbian and 

 other Poems. Ann Arbor, Mich. : The Register 

 Publishing Co. Pp. 141. 



Parker, T. Jeffery. William Kitchen Parker. 

 A Biographical Sketch. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 

 145. $1.50. 



Picturesque Chicago and Guide to the World's 

 Fair. Hartford, Conn. : The Religious Herald. 

 Pp. 318, with Map. 



Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Annual 

 Register, etc., 1892-'93. Pp. 120. 



Rathbun, Mary J. Two Monographs on Crabs. 

 United States National Museum, Washington. 

 Pp. 40 and 36, with Plates. 



Ridgway, Robert. United States National Mu- 

 seum. Two Supposed New Species of Swifts. 

 Pp. 2. — Supposed New Species of Odontophorus 

 from Southern Mexico. Pp. 2. 



Rockwell, J. E. Shorthand Instruction and 

 Practice. United States Bureau of Education. 

 Pp. 205, with Plates. 



Salazar, A. E., and Newman, J. Q. Informe 

 sobre el Agua de la Qebrada Berde (Brief upon the 

 Water of the Quebreda Verde). Santiago, Chili. 

 Pp. 16. 



Scientific Alliance of New York. Proceed- 

 ings of the Second Joint Meeting, March 27, 1893. 

 Pp. 37. 



Scollick, J. W. United States National Mu- 

 seum. On the Making of Gelatin Casts. P. 1. 



Shipley, Arthur E. Zoology of the Inverte- 

 brata. London: Adam and Charles Black. Pp. 

 458. $6.25. 



Shufeldt, Dr. R. W. Nesting Habits of Galeo- 

 scoptes Caroliniensis (the Catbird). Pp. 2. — Notes 

 on the Trunk Skeleton of a Hybrid Grouse. Pp. 5. 



Singeley, J. A., and Harris, G. D. Preliminary 

 Notes on the Artesian Wells of the Gulf Coastal 

 Slope, etc. Geological Survey of Texas, Austin. 

 Pp.32. 



Slater Fund, John F. Proceedings of the 

 Trustees, 1893. Pp. 44. 



Smith, Eugene A. The Clays of Alabama. 

 Pp. 10. 



State Reservation at Niagara. Ninth Annual 

 Report of the Commissioners, 1891-'92. Pp. 87, 

 with Map and Plates. 



Stejneger, Leonhard. United States National 

 Museum. Diagnosis of a New Californian Lizard. 

 Pp.1. 



Suppression of Vice, New York Society for 

 the. Nineteenth Annual Report, 1893. Pp. 24. 



Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, San 

 Francisco. Transactions, May 5, 1893. Pp. 82. 



United States National Museum. Report for 

 1891. Pp. 869. 



Whitman, C. O., and Allis, E. P., Editors- 

 Journal of Morphology, May, 1893. Pp. 148. 



Winslow, Arthur, State Geologist. The Geol- 

 ogy and Mineral Products of Missouri. Pp. 20. 



Yale University Observatory. Report for 

 1892-'93. 



Youth's Companion. World's Fair Number. 

 Pp. 36. Illustrated. Price, 10 cents. 



ZoSlogical Society of Philadelphia. Twenty- 

 first Annual Report, March 21, 1893. Pp. 18. 



POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Explosion of Kitchen Boilers. — The most 

 common cause of the explosion of kitchen- 

 range boilers is frost. If the pipes are frozen 

 so that the steam raised by the fire can not es- 

 cape, the danger of an explosion is very great. 

 This should be prevented, where there is a lia- 

 bility of the pipes being frozen, by protecting 

 the pipes and apparatus generally from the 

 effects of frost. Protection may be given 

 by covering the pipes with hair felt. Some 

 boilers are in danger of explosion from the 

 failure of water supply ; but in the modern 

 system of cylinder the hot-water tank is not 

 entirely emptied, and a sufficient supply of 

 water is usually left to carry the fire several 

 hours. Boilers in districts where the water 

 is " hard " may fail in consequence of the 

 accumulation of an incrusted deposit within 

 them and the pipes, whereby the pipes may 

 be in time stopped up. The pipes, however, 

 usually give warning of this danger long de- 

 fore it becomes imminent, in the shape of vio- 

 lent noises and vibrations proceeding from 

 the apparatus, which become unendurable 

 and have to be removed before the explosion 

 takes place. Finally, a safety-valve is a sov- 

 ereign preventive of explosions from what- 

 ever cause. 



The Australasian Association. — The next 

 meeting of the Australasian Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will be held in 

 Adelaide, South Australia, beginning Sep- 

 tember 25th. The meeting will be presided 

 over by Prof. Ealph Tate, of the University 

 of Adelaide. The presidents of sections will 

 be : Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics — 

 H. C. Russell, Government Astronomer of 

 New South Wales ; Chemistry — C. N. Hake, 

 of Victoria; Geology and Mineralogy — Sir 

 James Hector, Director of the Geological 



