Popular Science Monthly/Volume 44/February 1894/Publications Received

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Adney, Tappan. Milicete Indian Natural History. Linnæan Society, New York. Pp. 41.

Andrews, Captain, Cruise in the Sapolio. New York: Enoch Morgan's Sons. Pp. 198.

Apgar, Austin C. Pocket Key of Birds in the Northern United States. Trenton, N. J. Pp. 63.

Arthur, J. C. A New Factor in the Improvement of Crops. Pp. 8.

Ashmead, William H. Monograph of the North American Proctotrypedæ. Washington: United States National Museum. Pp. 472, with 18 Plates.

Bailey, Vernon The Prairie Ground Squirrels or Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley. Washington: United States Department of Agriculture. Pp. 69, with Maps.

Barber, Edwin At Lee. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 446. $5.

Benton, George Willard. A Laboratory Guide for a Twenty Weeks' Course in General Chemistry. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. Pp. 163. 40 cents.

Bernhard, Marie. For My Own Sake. New York: The International News Company. Pp. 358. .50 cents.

Bollman, Charles Harvey. The Myriapoda of North America. Washington: United States National Museum. Pp. 210.

Branner, John C, State Geologist. Marbles and other Limestones of Arkansas. By T. C. Hopkins, Little Rock. Pp. 443, with Volume of Maps.

Brinton, Daniel G. The Native Calendar of Central America and New Mexico. Pp. 59.

Brooks, W. K. The Genus Salpa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. Pp. 371, with a Volume of Plates.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archæology. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 404. $3.25.

Carus, Paul. Primer of Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company. Pp. 232. $1.

Cooglan, J. Gordon, Columbia, S. C. Poems. Pp. 64.

Coppée, Henry. General Thomas. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 331. $1.50.

Crooker, Joseph Henry. The New Bible and its Uses. Boston: George II. Ellis. Pp. 286.

Dall, William Healey. Land Shells of the Genus Bulimulus in Lower California. Washington: United States National Museum. Pp. 12, with Plates.

English, William T. Introductory Address to the Medical Department of the Western Pennsylvania University. Pittsburg. Pp. 22.

Farnham, Edwin, M. D., Cambridge, Mass. Some Conditions affecting the Health of Students. Pp. 11.

Fewkes, J. Walter. A-Wa'-to-bi. An Archæological Verification of a Tuscayan Legend. Pp. 12.

Flint, Weston. Statistics of Public Libraries in the United States and Canada. Washington: Bureau of Education. Pp. 213.

Foster, Michael, and others. Editors. The Journal of Physiology. Volume XV, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. Cambridge, England. $5 a volume.

Gore, J. Howard. Congressional Manual of Parliamentary Practice. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen. Pp. 112. 50 cents.

Grunell, J. P., Alliance, O. Phonetic Alphabet of the English Language in Roman Type and Script. Pp. 8.—A Concise Disquisition of the English Language, and a Plea for improving its Orthography. Pp. 31.—The Character, Object, and Scope of the Medical Profession. Pp. 12.

Hawkins, C. C, and Wallis, F. The Dynamo: its Theory, Design, and Manufacture. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 520. 10s. 6d.

Heilprin, Angelo, Editor. Around the World. Monthly. December, 1893. New York and Philadelphia: The Contemporary Publishing Company. Pp. 20. 15 cents. $1.50 a year.

Howard, George Elliott. The American University and the American Man. Palo Alto, Cal. Pp. 22.

Hoyt, Charles S., Secretary. Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the New York State Board of Charities. Pp. 591.

Huxley, T. H. Darwiniana. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 475. $1.75.

Jordan, David Starr. Temperature and Vertebra. A Study of Evolution. Pp. 36.

Julien, Alexis A. Suggestions in Microscopical Technique. Pp. 20.

King, John H. Man an Organic Community. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Two Volumes. Pp. 327 and 328.

Lee, Rawdon B. A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Horace Cox. Pp. 584.

Leffmann, Henry, and Beam, William. Analysis of Milk and Milk Products. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son, & Co. Pp. 93. $1.

Lord, John. Two German Giants—Frederick the Great and Bismarck. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. Pp. 173. $1.

Macfarlane, Alexander, University of Texas. On Rainmaking. Pp. 10.

Mayer, I. H., M. D. Domestic Economy. Lancaster, Pa. Pp. 283.

Mendenhall, T. C., Superintendent. Fundamental Standards of Length and Mass. Washington: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Pp. 5.

Philadelphia Record Almanac for 1894. Pp. 96.

Pickering, E. C, Director of Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Miscellaneous Researches during the Years 1883-1893. Pp. 227.—Comparison of Positions of Certain Stars, 1870 to 1884. By W. A. Rogers. Pp. 381.—Account of the Observatory. Pp. 4.—Investigations of the New England Meteorological Society for 1891. By W. M. Davis, J. W. Smith, and R. D. C. Ward. Pp. 284, with Plates.—Observations made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in 1892 under the Direction of J. Lawrence Rotch. Pp. 138.

Pilling, James Constantine. Bibliography of the Salishan Languages. Washington: United States Bureau of Ethnology. Pp. 86.

Plummer, Fred. G. Illustrated Guide-book to Mount Tacoma. Tacoma, Wash. Pp. 10, with Plates.

Pope Manufacturing Company, Boston, Mass. Columbia Desk Calendar for 1894. Pp. 365.

Powell, J. W., Director. Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-'88. Washington: Government Printing Office. Pp. 617.

Pressinger, W. P. The Widening Use of Compressed Air. New York. Pp. 7.

Preston, E. D. Results of Observations for the Variations of Latitude at Waikiki, Hawaiian Islands. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Pp. 20.

Putnam, George Haven. Authors and their Public in Ancient Times. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 309.

Pyle, J. S., Canton, Ohio. A Plea for appropriating Capital Criminals to the Experimental Physiologist. Pp. 8.

Richards, Ellen H. The Story of the New England Kitchen and Leaflets. Boston.

Ricks, George. Object Lessons and how to give them. First and Second Series. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. Pp. 202 and 212. 90 cents each.

Ridgway, Robert. A Revision of the Genus Formicarius Boddaert. Pp. 20.—Description of some New Birds collected in Islands near Madagascar. Pp. 9.—Remarks on the Asian Genus Myiarchus. Pp. 4. Washington: United States National Museum.

Riley, C. V. Report on Insecta, Arachnida, and Myriapoda of the United States Eclipse Expedition of 1889-'90.

Rotch, J. Lawrence. The Meteorological Stations on Mont Blanc. Pp. 4. The Highest Meteorological Station in the World. Pp. 6, both with Plates.

Savage, M. J. Jesus and Modern Life. Boston: George H. Ellis. Pp. 229. $1.

Scott, Sir Waller. The Abbot. American Book Company. Pp. 536. 60 cents.

Shufeldt, R. W., M. D. Mechanics of the Upper Mandible in the Scolopacidæ. Pp. 3.

Smock, John C, Trenton, N. J. Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey for 1892. Pp. 367, with Map.

Stevenson, John J. Origin of the Pennsylvania Anthracite. Rochester, N. Y.: Geological Society of America. Pp. 70.

Simpson, Charles T. Fossil Unios and Fresh-water Shells from the Drift at Toronto, Can. Washington: United States National Museum. Pp. 6.

True, Frederick W. Notes on Mammals from Tana River, East Africa. Pp. 4.—Description of a New Species of Fruit Bat from Aldabra Island. Pp 2. Washington: United States National Museum.

Underwood, B. F. New Occasions. Monthly. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co. Pp. 53. 10 cents; $1 a year.

Van der Heyden, W., M. D., Yokohama, Japan. Description of a newly devised Sanitary Building. Pp 2.

Weed, Clarence M. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Harvest Spiders of Ohio. Washington: United States National Museum. Pp. 24.

West, James H. Uplifts of Heart and Will Boston: George H. Ellis. 50 cents.

Wheatley, William A. The German Declensions Simplified and Symbolized. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen. Pp. 53. 25 cents.

Wilder (Burt Green), The, Quarter-century Book. By some of his Former Students. Ithaca, N. Y.: Comstock Publishing Company. Pp. 494, with Plates. $5.

Woolcomber, W. G. Practical Work in Heat. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 61.