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their provision for its oTbservance. He shows fully how liberally the Ameri- 
can Government and even the Russian have dealt in the matter, and he urges 
upon our own Liberal Government to give more money, so as to tit out more 
•observers for the Southern posts. He also asks that the Government ex- 
pedition to Rodriguez should be given up, and the money which would be 
expended on it devoted to an expedition to Possession Island. At all 
events, Mr. Proctor must be gratified that he has induced the Astronomer 
Royal to urge the appointment of a station in the north of India. W e hope 
he may experience further conversions of the Government to his views. At 
all events, his book is calculated to bring about that end. 
E fancy that the author has gone astray in his search after knowledge. 
He thinks he has found a satisfactory clue to the cause of the glacial 
epoch, and he endeavours to prove its truth. We certainly are not satisfied 
with his reasoning. Nevertheless, some of our readers may be, and as we 
have not anything like the requisite space to put the author’s arguments 
forward, we shall merely content ourselves with the expression of opinion 
that his view is an unnatural one. Still, we recommend those of our 
readers interested in the matter to read Col. Dra^^son’s book. 
SANITARY MATTERS DURING THE AMERICAN WAR.f 
CURIOUS book, full of interesting and harrowing details, showing us 
how much misery was suffered during that fearful war in the United 
States, and how far the Sanitary Commission extended its researches, and 
how many people were often restored to life by its agency alone. It is a 
most readable book, and shows us better than anything we have yet seen 
even in the records of the Franco-Prussian war, the trials and difficulties 
which always accompany a vast campaign. It testifies fully to the 
infinite advantages of having women to attend to the sufferers who are 
brought in from the battle-field. It is a large book, excellently printed, 
and containing a quantity of very important matter. 
Chronos’s Mother Earth's Biography, by Wallace Wood, M.D. : London, 
Triibner, 1873. This is a book which must have sprung from an intense 
■amount of self-conceit. It is, we think, absolutely aimless, and intensely 
* On the Cause, Date, and Duration of the last Glacial Epoch of Geology, 
and the probable Antiquity of Man,” by Lieut.-Col. Drayson, R.A. Lon- 
don : Chapman and Hall, 1873. 
t “ The U.S. Sanitary Commissioners in the valley of the Mississippi 
during the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866.” Final report of Dr. J. S. 
Newberry. Cleveland : Fairbank, and Co., U.S.A. 
THE LAST GLACIAL EPOCH.* 
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