Editorials.— The Address of i [eels or Stomach, vs. 



Brains, 235; Donation of General Isaac J. Wistar, 235; Mongoose in 

 the West, 236; Correct out hange of Publish- 



ers, 237; Rational Nomenclature, 319; Reduction of Number and 

 Classification of the Members of the National Academy of Sciences, 

 319; Western State Univ. s, 396; University 



Building in Lincoln, Nebraska, 753 ; Meeting of the American Asso- 



cal Table at Naples, 834; Vertebrata of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 834; World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition, 930; 

 Man's Powers of Observation, 931 ; The Reduction in the Appropria- 

 tion to the United States Geological Survey, 930; Changes in the 

 Courses of Study in the Grammar Schools of Massachusetts, 1014. 



Recent Books and Pamphlets.— 37, 144, 223, 321, 597, 502, 607, 835, 



NTLlTERATURE.-Reportofthe i >r 1887,39; But- 



ler's Catalogue of the Birds of Indiana, 40; K 



: »che andTopographische Anatomie des Hundes. Bearbei- 

 tet von Ellenberger und Baum, | are of Parasites, 



231; Recent Zo< I ; Mennier's Les Methodes de 



M neralogie,328; TheWormsui I 

 Loeb's Heliotropic _ Animals, 400; Cope's Homologies ol 



Study of an Oak Tree, 690; Flower's Study of the Hoi 

 Fur of Animals, Lacroix-Dauliard, 692; EimerontheO, 

 Muscular Tissue. 837; Beecher's Studies of the Brad 

 On the Occurrence of Artesian and Other Undergrou- 

 Texas, Eastern New Mexico and Indian Territory West of the «J7th 



Art, 936 ; Newell's Outline Lessons in B 



of Monkeys, 1019; Parker's Elementary Biology, 1021 ; -War' 



Thierleben, Kriechthiere und Lurche, 



Lessons in Botany, 937 ; Garner's" Speech 



Elementary Biology, 1021 ; Apgar's Trees 



Mule Book, 



Geology and Paleontology.— The Crystalline Cambrian Deposits in Massachu- 

 setts, 156; The Fauna of the Armorician Sandstones, 15 6 : Relations 

 of the Chemung-Catskill Group to the Lower Carboniferous 157 • 

 Water-Bearing Horizons of Southern New Jersey, 157 ; Pr es of the 

 London Geological Society for 1891, 158; Interval Between the Gla- 

 cial Epochs, 158; Arkansas Geological Survey, 1890, 158 ; Geological 

 Survey of Texas, 1890, 158 j Kj ; The Sirocco 



*f a , D'smtc. ■ brate Fossils at Samos, 243 ; 



Geologic Correlation by Means of Fossil Plants, 243; The Eocene of 

 the United States, 330; A I Xanthidia, 333 • 



The North American Coal Supply, 409 ; ' 



France, 410: Bones and Other Mammalia, 



410; On the Correlation of Moraines with Raised Beaches of Lake 

 Erie, 412; Glacial Move: - Tonga Islands, 



115 Fre^h-Water Diatomace us I) s-o.it fr •, Hai ,-d Plains of Texas, 



i93; On the Separation and Study of the 

 Heavy Accessories of Rock. . r tta at Roches- 



ter New \ or , *;.>5 ; < leoi r; )4; ThePacific 



I the Laramie, 

 ,56; The Elevation of Mount Orizaba or ( 



