Magazines Received. 
American Ofprey. I, No. i, Feb. 1890. 
Published by Paul B. Haskell, Ashland, 
Ky., at 25 cents per year, 4 pages. 
' The Empire State Exchange published by 
Perrine Bros. a. Co.. Water Valley, N. Y. 
at 25 cents a year. Nos. i, 2 and 3 of 
Vol. I received. Quite an entertaining 
little magazine. 
The Ornithologist and Oologist, XV. No. 
I. Jan., Published by Frank B. Web- 
ster, 409 Washington street, Boston, Mass. 
$1. 00 per year. Its frequency (monthly) 
and valuable and interesting contents, 
place it in the lead of all other Ornitho- 
logical publications. 
The Observer^ I, Nos. l and 2, Janua- 
ry, 1890, illustrated. Published by E. F. 
Bigelow, Portland, Conn., at 50 cents per 
year, 8 pages 11 x I5>^. A new paper 
devoted to Natural History, Popular Sci- 
ence, Educational matters and general lit- 
erature. We wish Mr. Bigelow all the 
success his meritorious paper deserves. 
The Nautilus, III No, 7, November 1889. 
12 pages and cover and one full page illus- 
tration, $1.00 per year. 10 cents per copy. 
Edited by H. A. Pilsbry of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences, Phil., W. D. Averell, 
Manager, Mt. Airy, Phil. The first copy 
of this excellent magazine is before us. 
Typographically it is faultless; printed on 
a fine grade of book paper with good ink; 
its pages are quite readable even to a per- 
son not interested in Conchology. 
VicKs lUustratecl Alonthly Magazine, XIII, 
No. 2, February, 1890. Published by 
James Vick, Rochester, N. Y., at $1,25 
per year. It has an enviable reputation 
among horticulturists and all interested in 
home beautifying with flowers, and gard- 
ening. They have just issued a very ele- 
gant premium which will be given to every 
subscriber to their magazine. The title 
of this beautifully illustrated souvenir is 
"Myself," and is really worth double the 
subscription price of the magazine which 
it accompanies. 
Pysche, a journal of Entomology, Vol. V, 
Nos. 153 to 165, both inclusive. Pub- 
lished by the Cambridge Entomological 
Club, Cambridge, Mass. Monthly num- 
eros 20 cents; yearly subscriptions $2.00; 
complete volume $5.00. 'Ihe January 
number, now before us, has 16 pages in- 
cluding cover, and contains the following 
papers : The Work of a Decade upon Fos- 
sil Inse.ts, 1880-1889, Samuel H. Scud- 
der; The American Plum Borer, Euzo- 
phera semi-funeralis, A. Forbes; Descrip- 
tion of Some New North American Moths, 
W. Bentenmuller. 
Books Received. 
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Elephant Pipes in the Museum of the Acad- 
emy of Natural Sciences, Davenport la. 
(\ vindication) by Chas E. Putnam, iSS^. 
Kindly sent us by W. H. Pratt, the Cur- 
ator. The Bureau of Ethnology, of which 
Maj. Powell is Director, sanctioned an un- 
gentlemanly aud brutal attack by an orni- 
thologist who is, it must be confessed, only 
a pseudo-arclixologist and the pamphlet 
above referred to is "A vindication of the 
authenticity of the Elephant Pipes and In- 
scribed Tablets in the museum of the Dav- 
enport Academy of Natural Siences, from 
the accusations of the Bureau of Ethnology 
of the Smithsonian Institution." 
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