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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

and the corn-worm was absent, the clover seed midge has covered a more extensive territory, although its ravages do not appear to be increasing where it has been abundant, and the punctured cloverleaf weevil has steadily and rapidly extended its area of operations. The Colorado potato-beetle seems to be diminishing. The chinch-bug was remarked for the first time in injurious numbers in the State of New York. The substance of the report consists chiefly of full descriptions of the injurious species of insects, accompanied by as many illustrations as the State printers found it convenient to insert. On this subject, Dr. Lintner well remarks that many years must elapse before good figures of any of our common and more destructive insect pests can be repeated so often that a general familiarity with them and the species that they represent in nature shall render their further repetition useless.


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Aliette. By Octave Feuillet. Translated from the French by J. Henry Hager. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1886. Pp. 250. 50 cents.

On the Chemical Behavior of Iron in the Magnetic Field. By E. L. Nichols. Pp. 13.

The Germ-Theory. By J. B. Olcott, South Manchester, Conn. Pp. 41.

The Descent of Man. Office of the "Standard," 9 Spruce Street, New York. Pp. 48. 10 cents.

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Industrial Education in our Common Schools. By H. H. Dinwiddie, Fort Worth, Texas. Pp. 16.

"Texas Review;" C. R. Johns and S. G. Sneed, editors. Austin, Tex.: C. R. Johns & Sons. March, 1886. Pp. 80. $3 a year; 25 cents a single number.

Outlines for a Museum of Anatomy, prepared for the Bureau of Education. By R. W. Shufeldt. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 65.

The Manufacture, etc., of Iron, Steel, and Coal, in the Dominion of Canada. By James H. Bartlett. Montreal: Dawson Brothers. Pp. 167.

The Influence of Emerson. By William R. Thayer. Boston: Cupples, Upham, & Co. Pp. 80. 25 cents.

American Historical Association. Report of Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting, at Saratoga, September, 1885. By Herbert B. Adams. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 73. 50 cents.

Insects affecting the Orange. By H. G. Hubbard. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 220, with Plates.

Watkins's "Advertisers' Gazette." Prospect. O.: R. L. Watkins, Newspaper Advertising Bureau. Pp. 102.

Report of the Hydrographer of the Bureau of Navigation to June 80, 1885. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 41, with Plates and Charts.

The Irish in America. By William R. Grace. Chicago: McDonnell Brothers. Pp. 81,

Ninth Report of the State Board of Health of Wisconsin, 165. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Company. Pp. 308.

New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 8. Geneva, N. Y. E. Lewis Sturtevant, Director. Pp. 2.

Department of Agriculture, Alabama. Bulletin No. 7. E. C. Betts, Commissioner. Pp. 24.

The Museums in the Park, why they should be open on Sunday. New York: The "Truth-Seeker" Company. Pp. 32.

The Craters of Mokuaweoweo, on Mauna Loa. Surveyed by J. M. Alexander. October, 1885. Pp. 6.

Accurate Mountain Heights. Pp. 5. Observations of Variable Stars in 1885. Pp. 16. A New Form of Polarimeter. Pp. 10. Atmospheric Refraction. Pp. 24. By Edward C. Pickering, Harvard Observatory.

The Annual River and Harbor Fraud. By Henry Francis Knapp, 135 Pearl Street, New York. Pp. 4.

A Plea for Impartial Taxation. Addresses by S. B. Duryea, T. B. Wakeman, and G. R. Hawes. New York: The "Truth-Seeker" Company. Pp. 38.

Common Sense applied to Disease and its Treatment. By F. J. McKenzie, Oshkosh, Wis. Pp. 8.

Topographic Surveys of States. By H. F. Walling. New York: D. Van Nostrand. Pp. 10.

The Etiology, Morbid Anatomy, Varieties, and Treatment of Club-Foot. By A. Sydney Roberts, M. D. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son, & Co. Pp. 32.

Annual Address of C. V. Riley, President of the Entomological Society of Washington. Pp. 10.

The Mildews of the Grape-Vine. By Dr. C. V. Riley. Five-column sheet.

On the Conditions that determine the Length of the Spectrum. By Amos E. Dolbear, College Hill, Mass. Pp. 2.

The Mind-Cure. By Eldridge C. Price, M. D., New York. Pp. 32.

Primary Phenomenal Astronomy. By F. H. Bailey, Northville, Mich. Pp. 97.

The Mark of Cain. By Andrew Lang. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 173. 25 cents.

Cremation of Human Bodies not a Necessary Sanitary Measure. By Frank H. Hamilton, M. D. Pp. 11.

The Requisite and Qualifying Conditions of Artesian Wells. By Thomas C. Chamberlain. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 50.

Notes on Maya and Mexican Manuscripts. By Cyrus Thomas. Washington: Government Printing-Office Pp. 65.

Tales of Eccentric Life. By William A. Hammond and Clura Lanza. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 209. 25 cents.

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