Notes and News. — Publications Received. 25 



Mr. Duthie, botanical director for northern India, advocates 

 the use of flowers of the Calligonum for food in northwestern 

 India. 



In a recent report on magnetic rock among the hills of Upper 

 Burmah, Dr. Noetling describes a mountain or hill at Singaung, 

 which consists of a huge mass of iron ore. 



More than 1000 peaks in the Himalayas have been found by- 

 measurement to exceed 20,000 feet in height, and it is estimated 

 that at least 2000 reach this altitude. In the Alps there are two 

 peaks more than 15,000 feet high, and six or seven over 14,000 

 feet. 



Pita, the new remedy for hydrophobia recently discovered in 

 Spain, seems to be a name given to the flower stalk ot the aloe, 

 a plant common in some parts of Spain. The story go^s that its 

 virtues were discovered accidentally by a man in a -fit of hydro- 

 phobia falling upon an aloe plant and unconsciously biting 

 the stem. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, 



*OnIy publications not elsewhere noticed are here acknowledged. 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Reports for 1878 to 1887 

 inclusive, also four magnetic charts for 1890; and Bulletins Nos. 

 1 to 17 inclusive. 



U. S. Mint, seventeenth annual report of the director, 1889; 

 and report upon the production of the precious metals in the 

 United States in 1889. 



U. S. Lighthouse Board. Aberrations of audibility of fog 

 signals, by Arnold B. Johnson. Sound Signals by same author. 

 History of the application of the electric light to lighting the 

 coast of France, by Major D. P. Heap. List of light-houses, 

 lighted beacons, and floating lights on the Atlantic, Gulf and 

 Pacific Coasts of the U. S., corrected to Jan. 1, 1890. 



Reports from the consuls of the U. S. Nos. 105, 110-11, 112, 

 113, 114; and special on cookery for workingmen's wives, and 

 oatmeal food. 



Transactions of the Department of Agriculture of Illinois. 

 New series, vol. 18, (for 1888). From S. A. Forbes, State En- 

 tomologist. 



On Dynamic Influences in Evolution. By Wm. H. Dall. 

 Read before the Biological Society of Washington, March 8, 

 1890. From the author. 



The Oologist's Exchange, Vol. II, 1889-90. (Complete in n 

 Nos.) From A. E. Pettit 



Seeger & Guernsey's Cyclopedia of the manufactures and 

 products ot the United States. Comprises every article made in 



