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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1874. — Edited by Spencer F. 
Baird, with tbe assistance of eminent men of science. London : Triibner & 
Co. 1875. — The present issue of this work appears an improvement on those 
that have gone before it. Still we do not fancy that such a book will com- 
mand a large sale. In fact, we do not know who would be likely to pur- 
chase it. Not the worker at any kind of science, for it would be useless to 
him ; and we imagine that it would be hardly of interest to lovers of 
popular scientific research. We think that Mr. S. F. Baird has done his 
work well. 
Arithmetic in Theory and Practice. By J. Brook-Smith, M.A., LL.B., 
2nd edition. London: Macmillan. 1875. — This seems a good and clear book. 
The author evidently takes considerable pride in his work, which has been 
done lucidly and comprehensively. The addition of so many examination 
papers is decidedly of advantage. 
Reliquice Aquitanicce : being contributions to the Archaeology and Palae- 
ontology of Perigord, by E. Lartet and H. Christy. Edited by T. Rupert 
Jones, F.R.S., etc. London : Williams & Norgate. May 1875. This num- 
ber, which promises to be the last but one, is occupied by two very interest- 
ing papers. The first is by Professor Milne Edwards, of Paris, and is upon 
the bones of birds from the South of France caverns. The second is by Dr. 
E. T. Hamy, on some bones of a fossil man that have been obtained from 
Le Madelaine ; it is a short but a good contribution, and it is illustrated by 
a splendid plate, done in the very best Paris style, and giving several repre- 
sentations of the bones. 
We have received the following : u An Introduction to Logic and Meta- 
physics,” by T. S. Bassett, F.L.A.S . — u On certain Theories of Solar Struc- 
ture,” by S. P. Langley . — (< Our Barren Lands,” by General W. B. Hazen. 
A capital account of the barrenness of certain parts of America that are 
represented by emigration agents as flourishing portions of the New World. 
— “ English Hospitals in their Sanitary Aspects,” by G. Buchanan, M.D. — 
“ Recreative Science : a Plea for Field-clubs and Science Associations,” by 
D. Page, LL.D. — “ Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man,” by 
T. Karr Callard, F.G.S. — “ The Patent Question in 1875,” by R. A. Macfie. 
— “ The Potato Disease, etc.,” by E. Haigh. — “ Inaugural Address of the 
Psychological Society,” by Mr. Serjeant Cox .- — u Sixth Annual Report of 
the Board of Health,” Massachusetts, U. S. A. — “ The Law of Inheritance ; 
or, the Philosophy of Breeding,” by E. L. Sturtevant, M.D. — “ Aerial Loco- 
motion,” Pettigrew and Marey, by Professor Coughtrie . — u The Transit of 
Venus : its Meaning and Use,” by T. H. Budd, F.R.A.S. 
