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III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Catalogue of Scientific Papers (187Jf-1883). Compiled by 

 the Royal Society of London, vol. xi, 902 pp., 4to. London, 

 1896 (C. J. Clay & Sons, Cambridge University Press). — The 

 present issue completes the series of three volumes forming the 

 Supplement to the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers 

 for the years 1874-1883. The first volume (vol. ix) was noticed 

 in vol. xxxiv (p. 170) of this Journal. The unique value of this 

 work as a whole is too well appreciated to need commendation 

 here. It gives under the name of the authors, arranged alphabet- 

 ically, the lull titles of papers wherever published, with the 

 original references. This labor has been performed with much 

 thoroughness and accuracy ; the work should have a place in 

 every scientific library. 



2. The Yellov)stone National Park, by Capt. H. M. Chitten- 

 den, U. S. A. 8°, 397 pp., 1895 (Clarke Co., Cincinnati). — This 

 work will be found a most useful book of reference for the 

 national wonderland. The history of the park and its early 

 exploration will be found quite exhaustively treated. Other 

 chapters treat briefly of its topography, geology, natural won- 

 ders, fauna and flora, etc. An excellent descriptive itinerary is 

 given for travellers. The work is an excellent specimen of typo- 

 graphical art and is embellished by a large number of reproduc- 

 tions of beautiful photographs. The appended map, while very 

 complete, is, however, a very poor specimen of typographic work 

 and the only blemish we have noticed. l. v. p. 



3. Mechanics and Hydrostatics : an Elementary Text-Book, 

 theoretical and practical, by R. T. Glazebrook, M.A., F.R.S., 

 pp. 652, Cambridge (Cambridge Natural Science Manuals) ; New 

 York (Macmillan & Co.). — The crucial test of a treatise on Ele- 

 mentary Mechanics is the amount of vagueness and inconsistency 

 to be found in the pages devoted to the discussion of force rela- 

 tions. To secure the requisite degree of simplicity without nar- 

 rowness, and of logic without intricacy calls for much of the 

 equipment of the philosopher, historian, physicist and practical 

 teacher. Professor Glazebrook has succeeded in this, and d 

 fortiori in the other parts of his work, not only because he pos- 

 sesses these qualifications but also because the numerous text- 

 books on elementary mechanics which have appeared in the last 

 ten years, though individually faulty, have collectively raised the 

 treatment of the subject to a level where a text-book that is good 

 throughout becomes possible. 



The subject is developed experimentally and historically with 

 an unusual fullness of discussion of difficult points and numerous 

 detailed solutions of typical problems which will materially 

 lighten the labor of teaching and economize the time spent in the 

 class room. The author has judiciously avoided the use of most 

 of the various new-coined words, such as velo, celo, and the like, 



