Calendar of Societies. 



Engineers' club, St. Louis. 

 April 7. — Robert Moore, Tables for determining 

 the sizes of sewers by Kulter's formula. 



Torre y botanical club, Xew York. 

 April 13. — Dr. Xewberry, Living and fossil forms 

 of the genus Bauhinia ; Arthur Hollick and N. L. 

 Britton, Additions to the flora of Richmond county, 



n.y. 



Biological society, Washington. 

 April 17. — Theo. Gill, The characteristics and 

 families of iniomous fishes ; F. A. Lucas, Notes on 

 the vertebrae of Amphiuma, Siren, and Menopoma : 

 Frederick True, Exhibition of a wood hare with 

 abnormal growth of fur : Some distinctive cranial 

 characters of the Canadian lynx ; R. E. C. Stearns, 

 Instances of the effect of musical sounds on animals : 

 John B. Smith, Ants' nests and their inhabitants. 



Society of arts, Boston. 

 April 22. — W. 0. Atwater, Chemistry of foods 

 and nutrition. 



Publications received at Editor's Office, April 12-17. 



Albrecht, P. Epiphyses entre l'occipital et ie sphenoide chez 

 l'homme. (Bull. Soc. anthropol. Bruxelles.) Bruxelles, F. Hayez, 

 impr., [1886.] 8°. 



Sur la non-homologie des poumons des vertebres pul- 

 monis avec la vessie natatoire des poissons. Bruxelles, Man- 

 ceaux, 1886. 44 p., illustr. 12 . 



Ueber die wirbelkorperepiphysen und wirbelkorperge- 



lenke zwischen dem epistropheus atlas und occipitale der sauge- 

 thiere. Kopenhagen, Trans. Zth intern, med. kong., [1886. J 

 10 p-, illustr. 8°. 



Zur zwischenkieferfrage. (Fortschritte der medicin No. 



14.) Berlin, H. Korn/cld, pr., [1886.] [16] p., illustr. 8°. 



Blanqui, A. Kritik der gesellschaft. Band i. : Kapital und 

 arbeit ; behauptungen einiger nationalokonornen. Band ii. : 

 Aufsatze und notizen. Leipzig, IVigand, 1886. 64-178, 8-j-2i4 

 p. 8 C . (New York, Stechert, $2.20.) 



Bohn, C. Die landmessung. Berlin, Springer, 1886. 16-f- 

 761 p., 2 pi., illustr. S°. (New York, Stechert, S8.10.) 



Buch, S. A. Indberetning til departementet for det indre om 

 de i 1885 udforte praktisk - videnskabelige undersogelser over 

 vaarsildfisket. Christiama, Tonsberg, 1886. 83 p. 8°. 



Delgado, J. F. N. Etude sur les bilobites et autres fossiles 

 des quartzites de la base du systeme silurique du Portugal. Lis- 

 bon, Acad. roy. sc., 1886. 113 p., 43 pi. f c . 



Dinwiddie, H. H. Industrial education in our common 

 schools. Fort Worth, Tex., Loving printing company, 1886 

 16 p. 12°. 



Foerster, B. Olympia. Halle. Hendel, 1886. 6+25 p., 

 illustr. 8°. (New York, Stechert, 40 cents.) 



Gaisberg, S. F. v. Taschenbuch fur monteure elektrischer 

 beleuchtungsanlagen. Miinchen und Leipzig, Oldenbourg, 1886. 

 8-1-79 p., illustr. 16 . (New York, Stechert, 60 cents.) 



Hering, C. A. Bessemen und elektrolyse fur kupfer-. nickel- 

 und bleisteine. Freiberg, Craz &> Gerlach, 1886. 25 p. 8°. 

 (New York, Stechert, 75 cents.') 



Kirch ner, Fr. Worterbuch der philosophischen grundbe- 

 griffe. Lief. i. und ii. Heidelberg, IVeiss, 1886. 128 p. 12 . 

 (New York, Stechert. 40 cents.) 



Mason, O. T. The Guesde collection of antiquities in Pointe- 

 a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. West Indies. (Smithson. rep. 1884.) Wash- 

 ington, Government, 1885. [107] p., illustr. 8°. 



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