622 Recent Literature. [ October, 
other disinfectants would not prevent the spread of this contagious disease. 
The description of the queen bee is excellent. Though she has a sting, she 
can seldom be induced to make use of it. Says our author, “ I have often 
tried to provoke a queen’s anger, but never with any evidence of success.” 
Professor Cook adopts the prevalent opinion that the queen’s develop- 
ment is conditioned by the richer quality and greater quantity of her food, 
“ perhaps aided by a more ample habitation.” We would here inquire 
whether the temperature of the queen’s cell differs from that of the drone 
or worker cells, in fact, whether temperature as well as richer and more 
abundant food is not a factor in the production of queens; and, on the 
other hand, what brings about the production of workers, of which, we 
are told in this manual, there are from twenty thousand to forty thousand 
in every good colony. If some one would offer a prize for the best essay 
on the causes of retardation in the worker bee, and of acceleration in 
the queen, and another prize for the best essay on parthenogenesis in the 
honey bee, since the matter is by no means exhausted, he would confer 
a favor on the. public and aid in the advance of physiology. Meanwhile 
we look to our agricultural stations and colleges for original work in 
this direction. 
WHEELER’S GEOLOGY or THE UNITED STATES WEST OF THE ONE 
Hunprepta Meripr1an.!— This bulky volume gives the results of 
several years’ work by the survey in portions of our western Territories. 
It embraces reports by Mr. G. K. Gilbert on portions of Nevada, Utah, 
California, and Arizona explored in 1871 and 1872, already noticed in 
this journal, with a second on portions of New Mexico and Arizona 
explored in 1873. The late Mr. A. R. Marvine contributes a chapter 
on the geology of the route from Saint George, Utah, to Gila River, 
Arizona; and there are reports on the geology of certain parts of Utah, 
Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, by Mr. E. G. Howell; on a portion 
of Colorado surveyed in 1873, by Mr. J. J. Stevenson, and a mineralog- 
ical and agricultural report, by Dr. O. Loew. The heliotype plates add 
much to the general interest of the work. 
APPALACHIA.? — This is the organ of the Appalachian Mountain Club, 
devoted to the exploration of the mountains of the Eastern States, pat „e 
ularly the White Mountains of New Hampshire, which gives evidence of 
vigor by the publication of the first number of its journal within a few 
weeks after its fifth meeting. It contains, besides other matter, @ oer 
of papers of interest to tourists and geographical students, under the i 
lowing titles: Atlantic System of Mountains, by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock ; 
A Day on Tripyramid, by Prof. C. E. Fay ; Two New Forms of Mount- 
ain Barometer, by S. W. Holman ; New Map of the White Mountains, 
by J. B. Henck, Jr.; East Branch of the Pemigewasset, by wW. Cee 
1 Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys west g T 
Hundredth Meridian, in charge of Lieutenant G. M. Wheeelr, U. S. Engineers. 
Geology. Washington. 1875. 4to, pp. 681. With 13 plates and cuts. a 
7 7 rol. i., No. 1. June, 1876. Boston: A. Williams & Co. 
lished for the Appalachian Mountain Club. 8vo, pp. 62. 50 cents. 
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