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ceding popular editions. There is a modicum of descriptive text 

 to enable the investigator to proceed with intelligent appreciation 

 in the application of the methods described to practical problems 

 of diagnosis. The book is somewhat unique in respect to the 

 systematic manner in which the uses of laboratory clinical diag- 

 nosis are presented and also in the large number of data on 

 "normals" which serve as a basis for comparison. Perhaps 

 the book can best be described as a compact, compendious well 

 illustrated vade mecum for those who have occasion to apply 

 either chemical, bacteriological or microscopic technique as diag- 

 nostic aids. L. B. M. 



9. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauchi Bishop Museum of Poly- 

 nesian Ethnology and Natural History. Volume VI, No. 3. 4to, 

 pp. 359-546. — Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and 

 folklore ; by Abraham Fornander, with translations by Thomas 

 G. Thrum. 



10. New Geography, Book I; by Alexis Everett Frye. Pp. 

 viii, 264. Boston, 1920 (Ginn & Co.) .—This publication, from the 

 Frye Atwood Geographical Series, is much to be commended 

 for the variety and attractive character of the subject matter as 

 well as for its ample illustrations which include 539 text figures 

 as also a series of geographic and other plates. It differs 

 from the dry publications of an earlier period in style as well as 

 in subject matter and cannot fail to be interesting and instructive 

 to the youthful generation for which it is prepared. Dr. Atwood 

 of Harvard University has lent his assistance and many of the 

 excellent pictures included have already appeared in the National 

 Geographic Magazine. There is also a supplement giving the 

 population of the principal cities, relief maps and other matters 

 of interest. 



11. Memoirs of the Queenland Museum, Heber A. Longman, 

 Director, Volume 7, Part I, Brisbane. — This issue contains papers 

 on several natural histor^^ subjects. One of these is a continua- 

 tion of the edible Fishes of Queensland by J. Douglas Ogilby. 

 Two papers are devoted to Queensland flies, one by T. H. John- 

 ston and M. J. Bancroft ; another by C. P. Alexander. The 

 occurrence of the little Penquin is noted by the Director, H. A. 

 Longman. 



12. Transactions and Proceedings of the Neiv Zealand Insti- 

 tute, Wellington, N. Z. Volume 52 (new series) . — This embraces 

 544 pages with a large number of plates and text figures. The 

 field covered includes anthropology, botany, chemistry, geology, 

 and zoology, and many of the papers merit an individual notice 

 which is here impossible. 



13. The National Academy of Sciences. — The Annual Meet- 

 ing of the National Academy of Sciences will be held at the 

 United States National Museum, Natural History Building, April 

 25 to 27, 1921. Several features of unusual interest are 

 promised. The Prince of Monaco, who is to receive the Agassiz 

 Medal, will give an address on Monday evening, April 25, on his 

 long continued and highly valued researches in oceanography. 

 On another occasion Dr. W. S. Adams, of Pasadena, will speak of 



