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the proceedings of the Institution for the year 1871. However, as our 
readers are especially interested only in the Appendix to the Report, we 
suppose they are uninterested in the period of publication. The papers in 
the present volume are attractive, and some of them have a high scientific 
value. The first is a memoir of Sir J. F. W. Herschel, by Mr. N. S. 
Dodge. This memoir runs to about twenty-four pages, but it is really one 
of the best and happiest essays we have ever read. The life of the great 
Herschel is most tellingly written, and we think that few who have gone 
through the first page will place the book down until they have com- 
pleted it. The next paper is an address to the French Academy by M. 
Arago on the subject of Joseph Fourier. Dr. Odling’s address to the Royal 
Institution on Professor Graham’s scientific work is also an able article ; 
but of course it is familiar to many of our readers. A capital paper is that 
by Professor Helmholtz on the “ Relations of the Physical Sciences to 
Science in General.” This was delivered before the University of Heidel- 
berg, and is translated by Professor Kroch. Dr. Kornhuber, too, gives a 
good paper, which was originally read before the Vienna Society for the 
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, on the subject of “ Alternate Generation 
and Parthenogenesis in the Animal Kingdom.” It is to be regretted that 
the author did not deal more fully with his subject. On the other hand, a 
writer who has given us, if anything, too long a paper, is Mr. E. De Forest, 
M.A., who gives us no less than 65 pages “ On some Methods of Interpola- 
tion applicable to the Graduation of Irregular Series, such as Tables of 
Mortality, &c. &c.” This paper is, however, of the utmost value and im- 
portance to actuaries, and to such we specially recommend it. Among 
other papers of interest in the volume we may refer to the following : — 
u The Language of the Dakota, or Sioux Indians;” “Indian Mounds near 
Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory ; ” “Instructions to Captain Hall, who 
was Commander of an Expedition to the North Pole,” contains some very 
valuable advice to the naturalist, more especially in that part devoted to 
geology, which is by the late Professor Agassiz. 
SHOUT NOTICES. 
Annual Record of Science and Industry for the Year 1873. Edited by S. 
F. Baird, with the assistance of Eminent Men of Science. New York: 
Harper, 1874. We are pleased to see that this work has decidedly improved. 
Indeed it now forms a very valuable record, which, of course, will not be of 
assistance to the specialist, but will prove an immense boon to the amateur 
in scientific matters. The notices of work done are almost invariably 
judiciously executed, and, so far as we can see, they include almost all the 
acts of general interest. The author has associated with him a number of 
eminent workers in the fields of science, and he has thus ensured the ac- 
curacy of his reports. 
Divine Revelation and Pseudo-Science. An Essay. By R. G. Suckling 
Browne, B.D. London : Longmans, 1874. This is a book which we only 
notice in courtesy to the publishers. It is written by an aged person, who, 
