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amount of capital employed in manu- 

 factures, and in the production of flour ; 

 second in lumber, copper, and iron ore ; 

 sixth in the manufacture of agricul- 

 tural implements and chemicals, and 

 seventh in railway cars ; eighth in the 

 production of cheese and of wood-pulp 

 and paper ; tenth in manufactures gen- 

 erally, and thirteenth in agriculture. 



Two Bird Lovers in Mexico. By C. 



William Beebe. With 100 pictures 

 from photographs by the author. Pp. 

 408. 6 by 8^2 inches. Boston : 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1905. 

 An entertaining description of nature 

 life in Mexico. The author writes well 

 and his account of things Mexican is 

 novel and well worth the reading. 



' 'As we rambled through the trenches 

 we sometimes brushed against a mass 

 of large golden globes, strung close to- 

 gether along the leafless twigs of the 

 plant — brittle and five-sided and as light 

 as air. They reminded one in shape 

 somewhat of the sea-jellies (Beroe) 

 which drift in the currents of the ocean. 

 And the simile is not confined to the ex- 

 terior, for within hangs a small round 

 sac containing the tiny flat brown seeds, 

 just as, in certain of the animal jelly- 

 fishes, the pendulous stomach is swung. 

 Out of curiosity I counted the seeds in 

 one of these seed-vessels and found 253. 

 A single branch which I brought home 

 with 79 globes would therefore scatter 

 some 18,000 fruit. The least touch or 

 breath of air sets each of these many 

 seeds vibrating within their hollow 

 spheres, producing a sweet, sifting 

 tinkle, comparable to nothing I have 

 ever heard in nature." 



Arizona Sketches. By Joseph A. Munk. 

 With 100 illustrations. Pp. 230. 6 

 X9^ inches. New York : The Graf- 

 ton Press. 1905. 



Dr Munk has given a very readable 

 account of the territory of Arizona, 

 which has been aptly dubbed "the 



scientist's paradise," for it possesses 

 grand scenery, a salubrious climate, pro- 

 ductive soil, rich mineral deposits, rare 

 archaeological remains, and a diversified 

 fauna and flora. Some of the chapter 

 headings are A Romantic Land, The 

 Open Range, Ranch Life, The Round- 

 up, A Model Ranch, Some Desert 

 Plants, Hooker's Hot Springs, Canon 

 Echoes, The Meteorite Mountain, The 

 Cliff Dwellers, The Moqui Indians, A 

 Fine Climate. The illustrations are 

 particularly good. 



Cram's Atlas of the Dominion of Can- 

 ada and of the World. Edited by 

 Dr Eugene Murray - Aaron, 14 x 

 18^ inches. Chicago: George F. 

 Cram; Toronto: The Arnt-Gill Co. 

 1905- 



This new atlas of Canada should 

 prove useful to the many who are in- 

 terested in the recent rapid material 

 progress of Canada and in the new trans- 

 Canadian railway. The maps are on a 

 large scale and clearly printed, the sta- 

 tistics are the latest available, and the 

 text contains a good summary of the 

 history and resources of each province 

 of the Dominion. 



The Bontoc Igorot. By A. E. Jenks. 

 Pp. 266. 7^ x 10% inches. With 

 160 full-page plates. Manila: Eth- 

 nological Survey Publications. Vol. 

 I. 1905. 



The author of this volume and his 

 wife lived for five months in the pueblo 

 of the Bontoc Igorots, who are a primi- 

 tive mountain tribe of Luzon. His de- 

 scription of the people is made especially 

 valuable by the large number of excel- 

 lent photographs accompanying the 

 report. The Bontoc Igorots are an ex- 

 ceedingly dirty people, not 5 per cent 

 of them being free of skin sores, but 

 otherwise Mr Jenks has nothing but 

 good to say of them. He found them 

 honest, of kindly and likable disposi- 

 tion, courageous, industrious, and will- 



