90 General Notes. 
the study of hypnotism, especially in France. The first number 
contains the most extended and critical review yet published of the 
whole work of the English Society for Psychical Research. Single 
numbers, $1.00. Subscription to yearly volume of four numbers, 
$3.00. Remittances may be addressed to the American Journal of 
Psychology, Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A. 
—Prof. E. W. Claypole, of Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, is the 
author of “The Lake Age in Ohio; or, some Episodes during the 
Retreat of the North American Ice-sheet;” with colored maps. 
McLachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh ; Simpkin & Co., London. 
—In compliance with what seems to be a wide-spread desire on the 
part of the geologists of America, a few have united in an effort to 
establish an American journal devoted to geology and its allied 
sciences. The new publication will be called American Geologist, 
and it will endeavor to promote American geology by fostering the. 
interests of American geologists. 
The subscription price is $3.00 per -year, and the place of issue 
for the present is Minneapolis, Minn., where correspondence should 
be addressed to The American Geologist. From all geologists the 
editors solicit original contributions, and items of scientific news. 
The editors and publishers, for the year beginning January 1, 
1888, are as follows: Prof. S. Calvin, Iowa City, Iowa; Prof. E. 
W. Claypole, Akron, Ohio; Dr. Persifor Frazer, Philadelphia, Pa. ; 
Prof. L. E. Hicks, Lincoln, Neb.; Mr. E. O. Ulrich, Newport, 
Ky.; Dr. A. Winchell, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Prof. N. H. Winchell, 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
—The second number of Dr. Whitman’s Journal of Morphology 
will contain the following articles: Dr. ©. O. itmaa—* The 
Kinetic Phenomena of the Egg during Maturation and Fecunda- 
tion (Odkinesis) ;” Dr. W. B. Scott—“The Embryology of 
Petromyzon ;” Dr. Henry Orr—“ A Contribution to the Em- 
bryology of the Lizard ;’ Dr. H. F. Osborn—“The Foetal Mem- 
branes of the Marsupials;’ George W. and Elizabeth G. 
Peckham—“ Some Observations on the Mental Powers © 
Spiders.” The number will be illustrated by ten lithographic 
plates. 
—The Teachers’ School of Science, which the Boston Society of 
Natural History is enabled to conduct by the aid of the Lowell In- 
stitute, will be continued this year. Professor Wm. M. Davis will 
give five lessons on the Physical Geography of the United States. 
The different parts of the country will be considered, not in the 
order of location, but in their natural order: (1) The mountains, a$ 
constituting the framework of the continent; (2) The plains and 
