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is  the  work  of  Capt.  Charles  F.  Craig,  assistant  curator,  Army 
Medical  Museum  ;  Capt.  Henry  J.  Nichols,  Medical  Corps,  instruc- 
tor, Army  Medical  School,  and  Major  F.  F.  Russell,  Medical  Corps, 
Curator,  Army  Medical  Museum. 
Papers  by  The  Officers  of  The  Medical  Corps,  U.  S.  Army, 
read  before  the  Fifteenth  International  Congress  on  Hygiene  and 
Demography,  Washington,  D.  C,  September,  19 12. 
This  is  Bulletin  No.  2  and  is  published  for  the  instruction  of 
medical  officers  of  the  army.  It  includes  some  eighteen  very  valu- 
able papers  which  were  read  at  the  Intrnational  Congress  on 
Hygiene  and  Demography,  a  report  of  which  was  given  in  this 
Journal,  November,  1912,  by  Mr.  Wilbert. 
Annales  du  Musee  Colonial  De  Marseille,  fondees  en  1893 
per  M.  le  professor  Dr.  Edouard  Heckel,  et  publies  sous  sa  direc- 
tion.   Marseille  Musee  Colonial  5,  Rue  Noailles,  5,  1912. 
Volume  10  (1912)  of  this  valuable  publication  contains  a  num- 
ber of  papers  of  very  great  interest,  among  which  the  following  may 
be  mentioned  "  The  Sapotacese  of  the  Group  Syderoxylinea?,"  by 
Marcel  Dubard ;  "  Edible  Plants  of  The  French  Congo,"  by  M. 
Baudon;  "Analyses  of  Some  Samples  of  Edible  Earth  of  The 
French  Colonies,"  by  Docteurs  Aloy  et  Bourdin ;  "  Anatomical 
Studies  of  Several  Species  of  Kalanchoe  of  Madagascar,"  by  MM. 
F.  Jadin  et  A.  Juillet ;  "  New  Contributions  to  the  Flora  of  Bourail, 
being  the  fifteenth  contribution  to  the  flora  of  New  Caledonia,"  by 
M.  H.  Guillaumin ;  "  Anatomical  and  Morphological  Studies  of 
Pelea  Madagascarica,"  by  M.  A.  Juillet ;  "  New  Observations  of  the 
Plants  of  New  Caledonia,"  by  M.  Edouard  Hekel ;  "  The  Bananas, 
The  Exploitation,  Commerce,  Culture,  and  A  Systematic  Study  of 
the  Genus  Musa,"  by  M.  E.  de  Wildeman. 
It  is  a  matter  of  great  regret  to  the  editor  that  he  cannot  give 
an  abstract  even  of  these  valuable  papers  as  they  are  all  rich  in 
information  and  important  contributions  to  the  several  subjects 
mentioned. 
Annales  du  Musee  Colonial  De  Marseille,  fondees  en  1893 
par  M.  le  professor  Dr.  Edouard  Heckel,  et  publies  sous  sa  direc- 
tion.  Marseille  Musee  Colonial  5,  Rue  Noailles,  5,  191 1. 
Volume  9  contains  seven  monographs  of  equal  interest  and  value 
as  those  already  mentioned  as  eminating  from  the  Colonial  Museum 
of  Marseilles.  They  are  as  follows :  "  Contribution  to  the  Study  of 
the  Structure  of  the  Fruit  and  Seed  of  the  Clusiaceae,"  by  M.  H. 
