1892.] Recent Books and Pamphlets. 607 
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 
Abstract Proceedings Delaware Valley Ornithological Club of Philadelphia, 
1890 and 189 
Acassiz, A.—Calamocrinus diomedæ, a new Stalked Crinoid. Memoirs Mus. 
Comp. Zool. Harvard College, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1892. 
— General Sketch of the Expedition of the “ Albatross ” from February to May, 
1891. Bull. Mus. Comp, Zool. Harvard College, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, 1892. From 
the author. 
BETHUNE, G. A.—Mines and Minerals of Washington. From the Tacoma 
Acad. Science (Annual Report of the State Geologist for 1890) 
BopINGTON, A.—Strange Phenomena of Reproduction in Ficus roxburghii. Extr. 
Internatl. Jour. Micros. and Nat. Sci., Oct., 1891. From the author. 
B L.—Tobacco, Insanity and Nervousness. St. Louis, 1892. From the 
author. 
Bull. of the United States Geological Survey, No. 82,1891. From the Smith- 
sonian Institution. 
Bull. No. 15 Iowa Agricultural Station, Ames, Iowa. 
Catalogos de la Flora y la Fauna del Estado de Oaxaca, 1891. 
CHAPMAN, F. M.—A Preliminary Study of the Grackles of the Subgenus Quisca- 
lus. Ext. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, No. 1. From the author 
Cinquiéme Congrès Géologique International, Washington, 1891. Proces- 
Verbaux yt Séances. 
CLARKE, W. H.—The Civil Service Law, second edition, 1891. From the author. 
DALL, W. H,—Tertiary Molluscs of Florida. Ext. Trans. Wagner Free Inst., 
Vol. 1. From the Institute. 
Dawson, W. J.—Notes on Prehistoric Man in Egypt and the Lebanon. London, 
1886. From the author. 
De Vis, C. W.—Remarks on Post-Tertiary Phascolomyidz ; The Incisors of Scep- 
arnodon; In Confirmation of = —, hoon so-called. Ext. Proceeds. Lien. 
Soc. N. S. W., Vol. VI, 2d seri F 
yan S. G.—Apparatus for okai Water for Bacteriological Examination. 
Ext. The 1 and Register, Oct., 1891. 
Address before the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania, 1891. 
From the i 
Drxon, S. G. and W. S. ZUILL.—Reaction of the Amide Group upon the Wasting 
Animal PETEA Ext. Times and Register, Sept. and Oct., 1891, and Feb., 1892. 
From t t 
ALDSON, H. H.—Anatomical Observations on the Brain and Several Sense- 
of the Blind Deaf-Mute, Laura Dewey Bridgman. Ext. Am. Jour. Hae 
Vol. III, 1890, and Vol. IV, 1891. From the author : 
DonaLpson, H. W. and T. L. BoLtoNn.—The Size of Several Cranial Nerves in 
Man as Indicated by the Areas of Their Cross Sections. Ext. Amer. Jour. Psych., 
Vol. IV, 1891. From the authors. 
