646 Recent Literature, [July 
tation of the part played by bacteria in disease, and gives many 
facts which fully support his conclusions, Dr. Smith’s elaborately | 
illustrated paper is better than most of the American diatom lit- 
erature, as it deals with structure rather than with “ resolution.” © 
e papers upon the detection of adulterated butter seem con- | 
clusive that the microscope alone is not sufficient to decide in all 
cases, or, at least, until new tests are discovered. a 
There can be no doubt that this society is doing a good work, 
_and while it is the means of publishing much that is crude, and 
which might better be left in manuscript, it still serves as a centre E 
for many who otherwise would not belong to any scientific asso- 
ciation. To the charge that sufficient censorship is not exer- f 
cised in the acceptation of papers for publication, the much larget E 
American Association for the Advancement of Science is equally | 
open. Indeed, such criticism applies with much more force to the | 
latter than to the former association, for with a total of about | 
three hundred and seventy-five members the Microscopical So- 
ciety have a very substantial financial balance on hand, while 
the larger American Association, with a membership of eighteen 
_ hundred and eighty-six, are several thousand dollars in debt. 
The Fourth Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.: —The 
present volume keeps up the high standard of the series and 
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is able to form his own conclusions unwarped by any theory ¢ 
; riter. The impression the article creates in the present 
reviewer is that the simplest explanation of any pictograph 
most likely to be the right one, and any forced or symboli 
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interpretation is apt to violate the nature of at least the Indians 
of North America. The other articles of the volume relate 
pottery. Three by Mr. William H. Holmes deal respectively W 
— Annual pon seg of ig fgg of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smi 
sontan institution, 1882-83, by J. W. Powell, Dir os ë 3 
Wana 16 Coley nim Be irector. gto, pp Sr 
