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SCIENCE. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



A Treatise on Bright's Disease and Diabetes, 

 with Special Reference to Pathology and 

 Therapeutics. By James Tyson, A. M. ( M. D., 

 with Illustrations. Including a section on Retinitis 

 in Bright's Disease. By Wiilliam F. NORRIS., A. 

 M , M. D. Lindsay and Blackiston, Philadelphia. 

 1881. 



Dr. Tyson needs no apology for publishing this work, 

 and we express the hope that it will be extensively read by 

 the medical profession. 



It is true that many excellent treatises exist on this 

 subject, but a mere glance at Dr. Tyson's work shows 

 that in it the subject has been treated in a manner that 

 is original, presenting all the facts in a concise form, and 

 yet omitting no detail which is essential for the full com- 

 prehension of this intricate and difficult subject. 



Those who have watched the course of recent liter- 

 ature relating to Diseases of the Kidneys and Glycosuria, 

 are aware that we are very far from possessing precise 

 knowledge in regard to such complications, and that 

 while we are still ignorant of the precise pathology of 

 some of these diseases, the very facts bearing on the sub- 

 ject are in a chaotic condition, and inaccessible to the 

 majority of those who should be well informed. 



The writer of this book is an accomplished writer, and 

 one who has during the past fifteen years devoted his 

 thoughts and studies to these subjects, and also engaged 

 in practical work bearing on them. Surely the result of 

 such an experitnce must be useful to both experts and 

 students, if properly used and appreciated. 



The number of calls made upon physicians by patients 

 suffering from various forms of Bright's disease and Dia- 

 betes is daily on the increase, and no one knows better 

 than the intelligent practitioner, that a large number of 

 their confreres are miserably ignorant on the subject, 

 unacquainted with the Pathology of these diseases, and 

 disgracefully incompetent to treat them. We are not 

 now speaking of quacks, but holders of medical diplomas. 



Cases have come to our knowledge, where patients 

 have succumbed on account of their physicians being un- 

 able to make a proper diagnosis of the diseases we refer 

 to, or even to analyze or report on a sample of urine. 



To such Dr. Tyson's work will probably still be a 

 sealed book, but the advanced and intelligent physicians 

 will, under our advice, procure a copy, for, although other 

 works on this subject may have been studied with profit, 

 we believe a perusal of the work before us will still con- 

 tribute to his knowledge of this important and interesting 

 subject. 



Solar Physics. — In concluding a series of lectures on 

 Solar Physics, Professor J. Norman Lcckyer said : "I am 

 in honor bound to say, as the result of the work on our solar 

 physics, in that small branch of the inquiry into solar matters 

 with which I am more personally connected, that my belief 

 is that the late work has changed the views which were held, 

 say twenty years ago, to this extent : whereas twenty years 

 ago, we imagined ourselves to be in full presence in the sun 

 of chemical forms with which we are familiar here, I think 

 in this present year, we are bound to consider that that view 

 may be modified to a certain extent, and that we are justi- 

 fied in holding the view, that not these chemical forms 

 with which we are acquainted here, but their germs really, 

 are revealed to us in the hottest regions of the sun." 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 1, 1881. 



Latitude 40 45' 58" N.; Longitude 73 57' 58" W.; height of instruments above the ground, 53 feet ; above the sea. 97 



feet ; by self-recording instruments. 



barometer. 



THERMOMETERS. 



SEPTEMBER 



MEAN FOR 

 THE DAY. 



MAXIMUM. 



MINIMUM. 



MEAN. 



MAXIMUM. 



MINIMUM. 



maxi'm 



AND 



OCTOBER. 



Reduced 

 to 



Freezing 



Reduced 



to 



Freezing. 



Time. 



Reduced 

 to 



Freezing. 



Time. 



Dry 

 Bulb. 



Wet 

 Bulb. 



Dry 

 Bulb. 



Time. 



Wet 

 Bulb. 



Time. 



Dry 

 Bulb. 



Time. 



Wet 

 Bulb. 



Time. 



In Sun. 



Sunday, 25.. 

 Monday, 26.. 

 Tuesday, 27 

 Wednesday, 28 . 

 Thursday, 29.- 

 Friday, 30.. 

 Saturday, i.. 



29.936 

 2 9-943 

 29.937 



20-93-S 

 30.196 

 30.189 

 30.156 



30.000 

 29.986 

 29.094 

 30.018 

 30.238 

 30.238 

 30.198 



7 a. m. 



9 a. m. 



9 a. m. 

 12 p. m. 



9 p. m. 



9 a. m. 

 12 p. m. 



29.892 

 29,900 

 29.900 

 29.890 

 30.018 

 30.108 

 30.100 



5 P- m. 

 5 P- m. 

 9 p. m. 



3 P- m - 

 a. m. 

 5 P- m. 

 3 P- m- 



79-3 

 81.6 



79-7 

 78.0 

 69.6 

 74.0 

 79.0 



7°-3 

 72.0 

 72.7 

 70.0 

 64.3 

 68.6 

 69.6 



89 



9' 

 86 

 88 

 75 

 82 

 87 



4 F- m - 

 3 p. m. 



3 P- rn, 



4 p. m. 

 3 P- m. 

 3 P- m - 

 3 p. m. 



73 

 75 

 76 

 73 

 66 

 74 

 72 



4 p. m. 



3 p. m. 

 3 P- m. 



5 P m. 

 3 P- 



3 P- 



6 p. m. 



71 

 73 

 75 

 71 

 64 

 64 

 72 



6 a. m. 



7 a. m. 

 5 a. m. 



12 p. in. 

 12 p. m. 



a. m. 



4 a. m. 



67 

 69 

 70 

 68 

 62 

 62 

 67 



7 a. m. 



7 a. m. 



S a. m. 

 12 p. m. 

 12 p. m. 



a. m. 



a. m. 



143- 

 '45- 

 '39- 

 '43- 

 '34- 

 138. 

 X4I. 



Mean for the week 30.042 inches. 



Maximum for the week at 9 a. m., Sept. 30th 30.238 " 



Minimum *' at 3 p. m., Sept. 28th 29.890 " 



Range 348 " 



Dry. Wet. 



Mean for the week. 77.3 degrees 69.6 degrees 



Maximum for the week, at 3 pm. 26th 91. " at 3pm27th, 76. " 

 Minimum 14 " 12 pm. 29th 64. 11 at 12 pm 29th, 62. 11 

 Range " " 27. " 14. " 



WIND. 



HYGROMETER. 



SEPTEMBER 



AND 



OCTOBER. 



DIRECTION. 



VELOCITY 

 IN MILES. 



Distance 

 for the 

 Day. 



FORCE IN 

 LBS. PER 

 SQR. FEET. 



FORCE OF VAPOR. 



RELATIVE 

 HUMIDITY. 



7 a. m. 



2 p. m. 



9 p. m. 



Max. J 



Time. 



a 



B 

 0. 



6 



d 



B 



« 



a 

 « 



E 

 & 



o» 



Sunday, 25. 



w. s. w 



s. w. 



s. w. 



2 33 



S% 



3. co pm 



•595 



•596 



.677 



76 



48 



66 



Monday, 26. 



w. 



s. s. w. 



s. w. 



'77 



iK 



3.00 pm 



•6 5 S 



.665 



•650 



80 



47 



59 



Tuesd -y, 27. 



s. s. w 



s. 



s. w. 



'45 



3fc 



2.30 pm 



.652 



•733 



•744 



72 



61 



77 



Wednesday ,28- 



w. s. w. 



w. 



n. 



221 



1% 



5.40 pm 



.666 



•596 



.618 



77 



48 

 67 



76 



Thursday, 29- 



e. n. e. 



e. 



e. s. e. 



17 i 





10.20 am 



.516 



•545 



•536 



70 



84 



Friday, 30. 



n. e. 



s. 



s. w. 



146 



6Ji 



7.00 pm 



.569 



.703 



.6*8 



89 



66 



72 



Saturday, 1. 



w. s. w. 



w. s. w. 



s. w. 



'99 



3 



7.20 am 



.631 



.518 



•65' 



80 



4' 



66 



CLOUDS. 



CI.EAK, 

 OVERCAST. 



O 2 cir. CU. O 



O 2 CU . jo 



2 cir. 3 cir. cu. 2 cu. s. 



4 cir. cu. 4 cu. 2 cu. 

 2 cir. cu. 7 cir. cu. 10 

 10 2 cu. o 



5 cir. cu. 2 cir. cu.;o 



I I 



RAIN AND SNOW. 



DEPTH OF RAIN AND SNOW 

 IN INCHES. 



Time 



of 

 Begin- 

 ing. 



4.30pm 



Time 



of 

 End- 

 ing. 



Dura- {= H 

 tion. o 5 



h.m. it 

 < o 



5.30pm 1.00 



Distance traveled during the week ',295 



Maximum force 



niles. 



Total amount of water for the week - 04 inch 



Duration of rain 1 hours, 00 minutes 



1% lbs. 



DANIEL DRAPER, Ph. D. 

 Director Meteorological Observatory of the Department of Public Parks, New York 



