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Mr. Brough Smyth, Secretary for Mines for Victoria, has prepared a 
detailed descriptive catalogue of rocks, minerals, and fossils illustrative of 
the geology, mineralogy, and mining resources of the colony, exhibited on 
behalf of the Government, at the Philadelphia International Exhibition, 
1876. 
Telegraphy. By W. H. Preece, C.E., and J. Sivewright, M.A. London : 
Longmans, 1876. — This is one of Messrs. Longmans’ excellent manuals. It 
is essentially a practical work, intended as an introduction to Culley’s 
famous treatise, which was noticed in these pages a few years ago. The 
authors explain that the work is intended alone for those who have been 
engaged in practical telegraphy. To such we recommend the volume. Its 
cuts are excellent. 
Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement , with Answers. By R.E. 
Bay, M.A. London : Longmans, 1876. — These are carefully prepared, and 
they will be found useful by all who are engaged in the practical study of 
electrical and magnetic apparatus. 
Evolution of the Human Eace from Apes fyc., SfC ., unsanctioned by Science. 
By T. W. Jones, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., Professor of Ophthalmic Medicine and 
Surgery in University College, London. London : Smith & Elder, 1876. — 
Here is an admirably written and spirited essay against Darwinism. We re- 
commend it to our readers’ consideration because we are sure that they will 
peruse it with pleasure, and will put it down more convinced of the truth 
of Darwinism than they were before. 
The Moon and the Earth. By T. M. Reade, C.E., F.G.S., President of 
the Liverpool Geological Society. London : Hardwicke & Bogue, 1876. — 
Those of our readers who have looked at the admirable series of representa- 
tions in Messrs. Nasmyth & Carpenter’s fine treatise on the Moon will not 
agree with Mr. Beade’s conclusions. Still there is a good deal to be said 
for his ideas as to the comparison between the earth’s and moon’s appear- 
ances. It certainly does appear as if there were no disturbing influence 
in the case of the moon as there is in the earth’s atmosphere. At the 
same time one is bound to ask how so much volcanic agency as once existed 
at the moon’s surface could have operated without the presence of oxygen P 
In any case Mr. Beade’s little pamphlet is a most interesting one. 
We have received: — “Gumpel’s Patent Rudder ” (London : J. Pettitt, 
1876) ; <l Vis Inertia at the Post Office ” (fourth edition, Longmans, 1876 ) ; 
il Why do we Breathe ? ” by P. Black, M.D. ; u Annual Report of the Marine- 
Hospital Service of the United States, 1873 ; ” u Annual Report of the 
Supervising Surgeon of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, 
for 1874 u Science made Easy ; ” a series of Familiar Lectures,” &c., by 
T. Twining. Parts I., II., III., and IV. (London : Chapman & Hall.) 
