REVIEWS, ETC. 31 



East India House Museum, Leadenliall-strect (East Indian Products). 

 Free on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays ; by Tickets, on Wednesday 

 and Thursday, Ten to Three. 



Economic Museum, Perryn House, Twickenham, (Domestic Economy). 

 Open on Wednesday, between Two and Five, gratuitously. Admission, 

 by Tickets, obtainable from the Society of Arts. 



Museum of the Botanical Society, Regents-park (Vegetable Produc- 

 tions). Admission by Member's order. 



*% We shall be glad to receive short notices of the Museums of this 

 character in the Provinces, in order to complete our list. 



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The Seven Sisters of Sleep : A Popular History of the Seven Narcotics of the World. 

 By M~. 0. Cooke. James Blackwood. 



W"hile Mr. Cooke has endeavoured to popularise aheavy subject, and has certainly suc- 

 ceeded in making a most readable book, full of aneclote and information not generally 

 accessible, he has, at the same time, not lost sight of the instructive and more important 

 statistical and general information bearing upon the production and consumption of the 

 narcotics. Did our space permit, we could cull many most interesting details from 

 this volume, but we must content ourselves with giving our readers a hearty recom- 

 mendation to purchase the work, and they will find a large amount of most singular 

 detail, collected from a variety of sources, and presented in a pleasant, gossiping 

 form, which will certainly remove all drowsiness, whatever the title may indicate. 

 The information on the use of cocar, hemp, fungi, earth-eating, &c, is, for the most 

 part, entirely new to the general public. 



Tlie Uses of Animals, as applied to the Industry of Man. By E. Lankester M D. 

 F.E.S Parts 1 to 4. B. Hardwicke. 



"We are glad to find that Dr. Lankester is placing before the public in a permanent and 

 cheap form, for general diffusion, the excellent lectures which, in his official capacity 

 as scientific referee and general superintendent of the Animal and Food Collections' 

 he has been delivering at the South Kensington Museum. Dr. Lankester has been so 

 long known to the scientific world, as a lecturer and thoroughly competent illustrator 

 of commercial products, that anything from his pen is valuable, and whatever he does 

 is done well. The parts before us treat of silk, wool, leather, and bone, their compo- 

 sition and uses ; and whether for schools or for adults, they will be found the most 

 recent and best text-books of reference. 



PUBLICATIONS Pt,EGEIVED. 



Report on the Cultivation of Cotton in Egypt. By Thos. K. Fowler. Published by 



the Cotton Supply Association, Manchester. 

 The Cotton Supply Eeporter. No- 46. 

 Mensuration made Easy ; or, the Decimal System for the Million. By Chas. Hoare 



Sixth thousand. Effingham Wilson. 

 The London Medical Eeview. No. 1. 

 LAlgerie. Agricole, Commerciale, Industriale. Par M. A. Noirot. 



