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with little knowledge of his subject, and infinitely less reasoning powers, 
attempts to do battle against the doctrine of evolution. Mr. Darwin’s 
admirers can afford to smile at the author’s efforts to demolish him. 
Manuals of Elementary Science : Physiology, by F. Le Gros Clark, 
F.R.S. ; and Geology , by T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.G.S. London: Society 
for Promoting Useful Knowledge. These are two little books intended, of 
course, for mere beginners, and are both very good. Mr. Bonney’s is, in 
point of style, much better adapted to the class of readers it is intended for 
than Mr. Le Gros Clark’s. Both books are, we think, singularly defective 
from their absence of illustration. We point this out because we think 
that, of all books, those intended for the young should be full of woodcuts. 
Report on a Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of Neiu 
York. By Y. Colvin. Albany : The Argus Company, U.S.A. This is an 
interesting account of a plan of engineering observations carried out by the 
author. Otherwise it is of little interest to English readers. 
Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer to the Secretary of War for the 
Year 1872. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1873. Here we 
have an extensive report on the condition in which telegraphy is in America. 
Those who are at all interested in meteorology will obtain much informa- 
tion relative to the subject, the machines employed, &c., &c., in this work. 
The Year-book of Facts in Science and AH. By John Timbs. London : 
Lockwood & Co., 1874. This is by no means a book like the American work 
noticed above. It is full of glaring errors, and is most injudiciously edited. 
Still it is not without interesting matter, and it has a capital steel engraving 
of Professor Tyndall. 
We have also received : — “ The Annual Report of the Board of Public 
Education of the First School District of Pennsylvania,” for the year ending 
1872; u The Lives of Sir James Young Simpson and Michael Faraday,” 
by the Religious Tract Society ; “ Botanical Tables for the Use of Students, ’ 
by E. B. Aveling, B.Sc. (Hamilton Adams, 1874), which are not bad, but 
are only fit for students who have learnt botany ; “ The Vacation,” a Poem, 
by J. S. Nairne (Glasgow, 1874) ; u Spiritualism, and Why I Object to It,” 
by the Rev. T. Ashcroft (London, Tweedie, 1874), a very able onslaught 
on spiritualism ; “ Hints for Health,” by J. S. Stocker, M.D. (London, 
Churchill, 1874), consists of two useful lectures addressed to the people on 
the influence of air, water, food and wine on the system. 
The following books will be noticed in our next number ; they arrived 
too late for review in the pressent issue : — “ A Manual of Botany,” by 
Robert Brown, M.A., Ph.D. (Blackwood & Co., 1874) ; “ Geological Survey 
of Missouri Iron Ores and Coal Fields,” by Raphael Pumpelly (New York, 
Bien, 1873) ; “ Reports on the Geological Survey of the State of Missouri, 
1855 to 1871,” by J. C. Broadhead, F. B. Meek, and B. F. Shumard 
(Jefferson City, Regun, 1873); u Geological Survey of Victoria, Report of 
Progress,” by R. B. Smith, F.G.S. (Melbourne, Freres, 1875); “Reports 
of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories,” for the years 
1867—9, under the Department of the Interior (Washington Government 
Printing Office, 1873). 
