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alone numbering eleven hundred. He has performed his duty 

 well, having made a work that will be welcomed by all botanists, 

 and friends of science — a memorial work, as the genial, judicious, 

 truth-loving Dr. Gray is every where brought to mind ; a histori- 

 cal work, historical of workers as well as work done ; and a re- 

 pository of views and discussions connected with structural and 

 physiological subjects, the geographical distribution of species, 

 nomenclature, heredity, variation and self-fertilization in plants, 

 and various other topics, always instructive and often entertain- 

 ing. Many of the papers are very much like talks from their 

 author ; and they present him in so many different moods, de- 

 pendent on the subject in hand, that the volumes serve quite well 

 in place of a biography. 



3. A popular Treatise on the Wi?ids, comprising the general 

 motions of the atmosphere, monsoons, cyclones, tornadoes, water 

 spouts, hailstorms, etc. ; by William Ferrel, M.A., Ph.D. 505 

 pp. 8vo. New York, 1889 (John Wiley & Sons). — The great 

 progress that has resulted from the recent systematic study of 

 meteorology is well shown in this excellent volume. The eminent 

 author has himself made important contributions to this advance. 

 It could be safely assumed that a work from his pen would 

 most satisfactorily represent the present state of the science, and 

 this expectation is not disappointed. 



The topics presented embrace the general constitution and cir- 

 culation of the atmosphere, and further those disturbances in the 

 general equilibrium which manifest themselves as cyclones, tor- 

 nadoes, thunder storms, etc. These subjects are presented in 

 simple, direct language, and with very little mathematical analysis, 

 so as to appeal to a large class of readers who are not in a posi- 

 tion to take up the study in accordance with the more profound 

 scientific method. 



4. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 1884-85, J. W. 

 Powell, Director. 675 pp. royal 8vo., with many illustrations. 

 This richly illustrated report contains a paper by Mr. Wm. H. 

 Holmes of 175 pages on the ancient art of the Province of 

 Chiriqui, and another, of 50 pages, on a study of the textile art 

 in its relation to the development of form and ornament; a 

 paper by Dr. Franz Boas, 165 pages, on the Central Eskimo ; 

 one of over 100 pages, by Mr. Cyrus Thomas on the study of the 

 Maya Codices, and one of 30 pages, by J. O. Dorsey, on Osage 

 traditions. 



5. Elementary Algebra; by Robert Graham. Longmans, 

 Green & Co. — This text-book develops the ordinary subject of 

 Algebra including the Binominal Theorem but not logarithms. 



tj. Numbers Universalised, an Advanced Algebra ; by David 

 M. Lensenig. Part First. D. Appleton & Co. 



