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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  Frank 
  R. 
  Lillie: 
  Sex-determination 
  and 
  sex-differentiation 
  in 
  mammals. 
  

  

  Herbert 
  J. 
  Spenden: 
  Economic 
  contributions 
  of 
  ancient 
  America. 
  

  

  Sylvanus 
  G. 
  Morley: 
  The 
  Maya 
  hieroglyphic 
  writing. 
  

  

  E. 
  E. 
  Barnard: 
  (1) 
  The 
  star 
  in 
  Ophiuchus 
  with 
  great 
  proper 
  motion. 
  

   (2) 
  Total 
  lunar 
  eclipse 
  of 
  January 
  7, 
  1917. 
  (3) 
  Measures 
  of 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  

   the 
  nucleus 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  nebnla 
  of 
  Andromeda. 
  

  

  Edwin 
  B. 
  Frost: 
  Recent 
  remarkable 
  changes 
  in 
  a 
  nebula. 
  

  

  A. 
  G. 
  Mayer: 
  Biographical 
  memoir 
  of 
  William 
  Stimpson. 
  

  

  Benjamin 
  Boss: 
  Biographical 
  memoir 
  of 
  Lewis 
  Boss. 
  

  

  2. 
  State 
  Sanitation, 
  A 
  Review 
  of 
  the 
  Work 
  of 
  the 
  Massachu- 
  

   setts 
  State 
  Board 
  of 
  Health; 
  by 
  George 
  Chandler 
  Whipple. 
  

   Vol. 
  I. 
  Pp. 
  xi, 
  377. 
  Cambridge, 
  1917 
  (Harvard 
  University 
  

   Press). 
  — 
  The 
  development 
  of 
  public 
  health 
  in 
  America 
  is 
  closely 
  

   bound 
  up 
  with 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Board 
  of 
  Health 
  of 
  

   Massachusetts. 
  The 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  Sanitary 
  Com- 
  

   mission 
  of 
  1850 
  and 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  Drainage 
  

   Commission 
  of 
  1885 
  are 
  classic 
  documents 
  in 
  the 
  literature 
  of 
  

   sanitation. 
  The 
  researches 
  on 
  water 
  purification 
  and 
  sewage 
  

   purification 
  begun 
  at 
  the 
  Lawrence 
  Experiment 
  Station 
  in 
  1887 
  

   underlie 
  modern 
  practice 
  in 
  these 
  arts 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  world. 
  The 
  

   services 
  of 
  the 
  unpaid 
  Board 
  which 
  has 
  directed 
  the 
  work 
  has 
  

   been 
  as 
  inspiring 
  from 
  the 
  standpoint 
  of 
  good 
  citizenship 
  as 
  the 
  

   scientific 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  staff 
  has 
  been 
  fruitful 
  in 
  practical 
  results. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  G. 
  C. 
  Whipple, 
  Professor 
  of 
  Sanitary 
  Engineering 
  in 
  

   Harvard 
  University 
  and 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  Institute 
  of 
  Tech- 
  

   nology 
  and 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  Public 
  Health 
  Council 
  of 
  

   Massachusetts, 
  has 
  told 
  the 
  story 
  of 
  this 
  development 
  in 
  the 
  

   present 
  volume 
  and 
  duly 
  commemorated 
  the 
  services 
  of 
  Lemuel 
  

   Shattuck, 
  Henry 
  I. 
  Bowditch, 
  Henry 
  P. 
  Walcott, 
  Hiram 
  F. 
  Mills, 
  

   X. 
  H. 
  Goodnough, 
  William 
  Ripley 
  Nichols, 
  Ellen 
  H. 
  Richards, 
  

   Thomas 
  M. 
  Drown, 
  William 
  T. 
  Sedgwick 
  and 
  its 
  other 
  leaders. 
  

   He 
  has 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  given 
  us 
  an 
  illuminating 
  discussion 
  of 
  

   most 
  of 
  the 
  fundamental 
  principles 
  of 
  " 
  state 
  sanitation 
  " 
  as 
  they 
  

   are 
  involved 
  in 
  and 
  suggested 
  by 
  the 
  historical 
  review. 
  

  

  The 
  present 
  volume 
  includes 
  a 
  full 
  reprint 
  of 
  the 
  memorable 
  

   Report 
  of 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  Sanitary 
  Commission 
  of 
  1850. 
  

   Volume 
  II 
  will 
  consist 
  of 
  reprints 
  and 
  abstracts 
  of 
  articles 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  the 
  Annual 
  Reports 
  and 
  special 
  bulletins 
  and 
  reports 
  of 
  

   the 
  State 
  Board 
  of 
  Health 
  between 
  1870 
  and 
  1914 
  ; 
  while 
  Volume 
  

   III 
  will 
  contain 
  an 
  exhaustive 
  Index-guide 
  to 
  the 
  forty-six 
  annual 
  

   reports 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  and 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  biographical 
  sketches 
  of 
  the 
  

   distinguished 
  members 
  of 
  its 
  scientific 
  staff. 
  

  

  C.-E. 
  A. 
  WINSLOW. 
  

  

  3. 
  The 
  American 
  Year 
  Book 
  : 
  A 
  Record 
  of 
  Events 
  and 
  

   Progress, 
  1916; 
  edited 
  by 
  Francis 
  G. 
  Wickware. 
  Pp. 
  xviii, 
  

   862. 
  New 
  York 
  (D. 
  Appleton 
  and 
  Company), 
  1917. 
  — 
  This 
  is 
  

   the 
  seventh 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Year 
  Book 
  and 
  it 
  appears 
  

   under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  a 
  Supervisory 
  Board 
  of 
  some 
  forty 
  mem- 
  

   bers, 
  all 
  men 
  of 
  prominence; 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  contributions 
  includes 
  

   about 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty 
  names. 
  Unlike 
  most 
  annual 
  

   publications, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  statistical 
  or 
  personal 
  in 
  character, 
  but 
  

   gives 
  a 
  summary 
  of 
  the 
  important 
  steps 
  of 
  the 
  progress 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  