duced by a gunshot wound in the left side of the 

 skull. A plate of bone pressing on the brain was re- 

 moved, curing the disease ; but, after this operation, 

 an abscess formed, causing in succession, as it spread 

 downward, euphasia, paralysis of the right leg, and 

 paralysis of the right arm. The abscess was then 

 lanced, and in a few hours these symptoms disap- 

 peared, and in a short time the patient's health was 

 completely restored. 



Engineers' club, St. Louis. 

 Feb. 3. — Mr. Robert E. McMath, in a paper on 

 ' The future drainage of St. Louis,' stated that the 

 drainage has hitherto been a simple problem, for the 

 discharge of sewage has been direct to the Missis- 

 sippi. About twelve square miles have been sewered. 

 Sewers now begun, when completed, will drain about 

 twenty-two square miles ; others of like character, 

 one and a half ; leaving twenty-one square miles of 

 territory which will require sewering, and seventeen 

 square miles which probably will not. Interior 

 basins without natural visible outlets have controlled 

 the sewer-work of the city, since they require sewers 

 large enough to carry the greatest rainfall from the 

 depressed areas. Notable examples of these de- 

 pressed basins remain, one each of 100, 200, 630, and 

 900 acres. Three of these lie in the direction of the 

 city's most rapid growth. The unsewered territory 

 is largely of the character of prairie-land, and natu- 

 rally less fit for use as building-ground than was the 

 ground in the old limits, characterized by sink-holes : 

 hence sewer-construction is more urgent in the new 

 territory than it was in the old. The plan suggested 

 for sewering the new territory is : 1°. Sewers carry- 

 ing house drainage and storm-waters from the high 

 grounds along the minor water- courses, same as now 

 the practice ; 2°. Intercepting sewers, receiving the 

 ordinary flow from several sewers of the preceding 

 class, extraordinary flow to pass into natural open 

 channels ; 3°. Collecting sewers to guard Forest 

 Park and the River des Peres from sewage, to which 

 the foul drainage from territory north of the park, 

 and west of Union Avenue, and south of the park, 

 Cheltenham. Benton, etc., shall be pumped for con- 

 veyance to Mill Creek sewer ; 4°. Storm-water con- 

 duits, to take surface-water from a distance between 

 Taylor Avenue and Kings Highway, Eastern and 

 Duncan Avenues to River des Peres, and from the 

 south part of the Mill Creek basin to the Des Peres. 

 The plan proceeds on the assumption, 1°, that sew- 

 age can always be discharged into the Mississippi 

 without purification ; 2°, that River des Peres and 

 Harlem Creek are too large to be covered in as sew- 

 ers, and cannot be tolerated if allowed to become 

 channels for sewage ; 3°, that pumping sewage from 

 the more distant suburbs is to be preferred on the 

 ground of certainty to methods of disposal by irriga- 

 tion ; 4°, that Mill Creek sewer will eventually be 

 unable to carry all its storm-water from its tributary 

 territory. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Torrey botanical club, New York. 



March 9. — Mrs. N. L. Britton, Notes on the flora 

 of the great Appalachian valley and southern High- 

 lands. 



April 9. — Public lecture by Prof. W. G. Fallow 

 of Cambridge, Mass. 



Philosophical society, Washington. 

 March 13. — Mr. T. C Chamberlin, On the vary- 

 ing attitudes of former level surfaces in the Great 

 Lake region, and the applicability of proposed ex- 

 planations (continued from preceding meeting) ; Mr. 

 R. D. Irving, The enlargement of mineral fragments 

 as a factor in rock- alteration. 



Natural history society, Santa Barbara, Cal. 

 Feb. 23. — Mrs. Bingham, On the native shrubs 

 and plants of Santa Barbara county. 



Publications received at Editor's Office, March 8-13. 



Anthropologic criminelle, archives de la, et des sciences 

 penales. Tome i. No. i. Paris, Masson, i^86. 96 p. 8°. (New 

 York, Christern, $4.50 per year.) 



Armas, J. I. de. Les cranes dits deformes. Havane, 1 El 

 Fenix: 1885. 16 p. 8°. 



Auchincloss, W. S. Die practische anwendung der schieber- 

 und coulissensteurungen. Tr. by A. Miiller. Berlin, springer, 

 1886. 8+168 p., 18 pi., illustr. 8°. 



Chamberlin, T. C. The requisite and qualifying conditions 

 of artesian wells. (U. S geol. surv.) Washington, Government, 

 1885. [49] p., [1] pi., illustr. 4 . 



Charmes, G. La reforme de la marine. Paris, Levy, 1886. 

 34+459 p. 8°. (New York, Christern.) 



Croll, J. Discussions on climate and cosmology. New York, 

 Appleton, 1886. 12-I-327 p., map. 12 . 



Duncan, P. M. Heroes of science. Botanists, zoologists, 

 and geologists. New York, E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1882. 14+ 

 348+4 p. 12°. 



Errera, J. Une experience sur l'ascension de la seve chez les 

 plantes. Belgium, Soc. roy. de botan., fi886 ] 9 p. 8°. 



Figuier, L. L'annee scientifique et industrielle. Vol. xxix. 

 Paris, Hachette, 1886. 576+32 p. 12 . (New York, Christern, 

 $1.25. ^ 



Geologists' association, proceedings of the, November, 18F5. 

 Vol. ix. No. 4. Ed. by Prof. G. S. Boulger. London, Univ. 

 coll., 1886 [126! p., 1 pi., illustr. 8°. 



Gilbert, G. K. The topographic features of lake shores. (U.S. 

 geol. surv ) Washington, Government, i88^>. [56] p., [18] pi., 

 illustr. 4 . 



Graves, R. P. Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Vol. ii. 

 Dublin, Hodges, Figgis df Co., 1885. 16+719 p., portr. 8°. 



Homme materiaux pour l'histoire primitive et naturelle de le. 

 Ed. by E. Cartailhac and E. Chantre. 3d ser. tome iii. Paris, 

 Reinwald, 1886. 64 p., illustr. 8°. (New York, Christern, $4.50 

 per year.) 



Instruccion publica de. Guatemala, memoria presentada al 

 seiior ministro de Por el director del instituto nacional central. 

 Guatemala. P. Arenales, pr., 1885. 2i-|-i6p. 8°. 



Lewis, T. C. Heroes of science. Mechanicians. New York, 

 E. &> J. B. Young & Co., 1884. 16+340+4 p. 12°. 



Massachusetts agricultural experiment station at Amherst, 

 Mass., third annual report of the board of control of the, 1885. 

 (Pub. doc. No. 33.I Boston, State, 1886. 141 p. 8°. 



Morton, E. J. C. Heroes of science. Astronomers. New 

 York, E. B. You tig &> Co., 1882. 8+341+4 p., illustr. 12 . 



Muir, M. M. P. Heroes of science. Chemists. New York, 

 E. &> J. B. Young &> Co., 1883. 8+332+4 p. 12 . 



National academy of sciences, report of the, for the year 1883. 

 Washington, Government, 1884. MS P- 8°. 



Nederlandsch Oost-Indie, atlas van. Batavia, Kolff, 1885. 9 

 maps. 4 . (New York, Christern, $1.75.) 



Rietschel, H. Luftung und heizung von schulen. Berlin, 

 Springer, t886. 8+95+50 p., 36 pi. 8°. (New York, Stechert.) 



Thomas, C. Notes on certain Maya and Mexican manu- 

 scripts. Washington, Government, 1885. 65 p., 4 pi., illustr. 



4°- . ■ i-l 



U. S. bureau of navigation, annual report of the hydrographer 

 to the, for the year ending June 30, 1885. Washington, Gov- 

 ernment, 1885. 41 p., maps. 8°. 



Ward, L. F. Sketch of paleobotany. (U. S. geol. surv.) 

 Washington, Government, 1885. [113] p.. [3] pi. 4 . 



Washburn college laboratory of natural history. Vol. i. 

 bull. Nos. 3 and 4. Ed. by Francis W. Cragin. Topeka, Kan., 

 Martin pr., 1885. [64] p. 8°. 



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