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W. D. Matthew on Fossil Carnivores, Marsupials and small Mam- 

 mals in the American Museum of Natural History in New York 

 City. Dr. E. 0. Hovey also gives an account of the three Cape 

 York meteorites, brought from Greenland by Capt. Peary, the 

 two smaller ones in ]895 and the immense "Ahnighito" in 

 1897 ; these are now exhibited at the American Museum. The 

 dimensions of the largest masses are : length, 10 ft. 10 in.; height, 

 7 ft. 2 in., and thickness, 5 ft. 6 in. The true meteoric nature of 

 these masses is proved by the position in which they were found, 

 as also by the characteristic composition as a nickel-iron alloy 

 and by the octahedral crystalline structure developed by etching. 



6. Reflections suggested by the neio Theory of Matter ; by 

 the Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, M.P. 24 pp. London 

 and New York, 1904 (Longmans, Green & Co.). — The Presiden- 

 tial address of Mr. Balfour, delivered before the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science at Cambridge, August 17, 

 1904, is highly interesting and suggestive, none the less so because 

 the author views the problems of science not as an investigator 

 but in a sense from the outside. 



7. Ideals of /Science and FaUh, edited by J. E. Hand (Long- 

 mans, Green & Co.). — The first impression that strikes the 

 reviewer in looking over this book is that the ancient feud 

 between science and religion seems to have disappeared. In this 

 volume there is grouped a series of essays by writers in widety 

 diverse fields. The ideals of faith and science are discussed in 

 separate essays, by Sir Oliver Lodge ; Professors J. Arthur 

 Thompson, John H. Muirhead, Victor V. Branford, Bertrand 

 Russell, Patrick Geddes; Rev. John Kelman, Rev. Roland Bayne, 

 Rev. Philip Waggett, and Wilfred Ward. Each of these author- 

 ities approaches the subject from his own particular view-point. 

 The volume forms delightful reading for such as are interested in 

 broader lines of intellectual development. 



8. Long-range Weather Forecasts ; by E. B. Garriott. Pre- 

 pared under direction of Willis L. Moore, Chief IT. S. Weather 

 Bureau. Washington, 1904 (Weather Bureau, Bulletin No. 322). 

 — This bulletin should be widely read by the public at large, 

 showing as it does how little foundation exists for the general 

 credulity in regard to the possibility of making weather predic- 

 tions for the distant future. The only suggestion as to probable 

 progress in this direction is contained in the statement, u that 

 advances in the period and accuracy of weather forecasts depend 

 upon a more exact study and understanding of atmospheric pres- 

 sure over great areas and a determination of the influences, 

 probably solar, that are responsible for normal and abnormal dis- 

 tributions of atmospheric pressure over the earth's surface." 



9. English Medicine in the Anglo- Saxon Times ; The Fitz- 

 Patrick Lectures for 1903 ; by Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. 

 Pp. 162, with sixteen plates. Oxford, 1904 (The Clarendon 

 Press). — This volume contains the lectures, two in number, deliv- 

 ered by Dr. Payne before the Royal College of Physicians of 

 London in June, 1903, somewhat extended by the introduction of 



