Popular Science Monthly/Volume 50/January 1897/Publications Received

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. New Hampshire College: The Army Worm.—New York Station: Effects of Drought upon Milk Production; Feeding Experiments with Laying Hens; Report of Analysis of Commercial Fertilizers for the Spring of 1806; The Real Value of "Natural plant Food."—United States Department: Washed Soils: how to Prevent and Reclaim them; The Peach-Tree Borer; The Principal Household Insects of the United States.—Climate and Crop Service, Reports for September and October, 1896.

Archer, William. Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 402.

Beal, W. J. Grasses of North America. Vol. II. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Pp. 106. $5.

Boas, Franz. Songs of the Kivakintl Indians. Pp. 9 (quarto).

Bolles, Albert S. The Elements of Commercial Law. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Pp. 344.

Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth (abridged edition for the use of colleges and high schools). New York: The Macmillan Co. Pp. 547. $1.75.

Bulletins, Catalogues, Proceedings, etc. Boston Society of Natural History: Proceedings of; Some Facts in regard to the Distribution of Certain Mammals in New England and Northern New York: A New Occurrence of Carboniferous Fossils in the Narragansett Basin; On the Fracture System of Joints; An Important Addition to the Fauna of Massachusetts; The Jura of Texas; The Beach Mouse of Muskeget Island; Conditions and Effects of the Expulsion of Gases from the Earth; On the Larvæ of the Higher Bombyces; Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, May, 1896.—International Arbitration, Report of the Second Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on.—Smithsonian Institution: Notes on the Vampire Bat.—T-square Club of Philadelphia: Nineteenth Annual Report, Season 1895–’96—United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: Report upon Salmon; Investigations in the Head Waters of the Columbia River in Idaho, and Notes upon Fishes observed in that State.—United States Geological Survey: Some Analogies in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and America.—United States National Museum: Proceedings of; Description of a New Species of Bat of the genus Glossoiphaga.—Washburn, F. L.: The Eastern Oyster on the Oregon Coast (a preliminary report to the State Fish and Game Commissioner).

Cambridge Natural History, The. Edited by S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley. Vol. II. Flatworms and Mesozoa, by F. W. Gamble; Nemertines, by Miss L. Sheldon; Threadworms and Sagitta, by A. E. Shipley; Rotifers, by Marcus Hartog; Polychaet Worms, by W. Blaxland Benham; Earthworms and Leeches, by F. E. Beddard; Gephyrea and Phoronis, by A. E. Shipley. Polyzoa, by S. F. Harmer. New York: The Macmillan Co. Pp. 560. $3.50.

Hawley, Thomas D. Infallible Logic. A Visible and Automatic System of Reasoning. Lansing, Mich.: Robert Smith Printing Co. Pp. 659.

Holden, Edward S. Mountain Observations in America and Europe. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1035) Pp. 77.

Hunting. (The Out-of-door Library.) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 327. $1.50.

Keller, I. First Year in German. New York: American Book Co. Pp 290.

Labor, Tenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of, 1894. Pp. 1909.

Leary, Luke. The Flirt to Death. New York: J. S. Ogilvie. Pp. 128.

Lewis, H. Edwin. The Philosophy of Sex. Burlington, Vt.: The Vermont Medical Publishing Co. Pp. 51. 35 cents.

Marvin, C. F. Kite Experiments at the Weather Bureau. Weather Bulletin No. 110.

Merriam, Florence A. A Birding on a Broncho. New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 226. $1.25.

Moore, K. C. The Mental Development of a Child. (Monograph Supplement to the Psychological Review.) New York: The Macmillan Co. Pp. 150.

Morse, Edward S. On the So-called Bow-pullers of Antiquity. Pp. 25. Author: Salem, Mass.

Present Problems. Vol. I. Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10. A Free Coinage Catechism; Silas Balsam's Letter on Law; Repudiation and Honor; Petroleum V. Nasby on Silver; and Free Coinage and the Farmer. New York: Present Problems Publishing Co.

Railroad, The, in Education. By A. Hogg. Louisville: J. P. Morton & Co. Pp. 128.

Ramsay, William. The Gases of the Atmosphere. New York: The Macmillan Co. Pp. 240. $2.00.

Reprints. Becker, George F.: Schistosity and Slaty Cleavage (from United States Geological Survey Report); The Witwatersrand and the Revolt of the Uitlanders (from National Geographic Magazine, November, 1896).—Boas, Franz: The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast (Science, July 24, 1896).—Hodge, F. W.: Pueblo Indian Clans (American Anthropologist, October, 1896).—Keen, W. W.: Three Cases of Plastic Nasal Surgery (Therapeutic Gazette, July, 1896); The Surgical Treatment of Intracranial Tumors (University Medical Magazine, March, 1896).—Keyes, C. R.: Orotaxis: a Method of Geologic Correlation (American Geologist, November, 1896).—Rotzell: Use and Disuse (Hahnemannian Monthly, November, 1896).—Shufeldt, R. W.: The Cormorant Rookeries of the Lofoten Islands (The Auk, October, 1896).—Stuver, E.: The Relation of the Physician to Social, Educational, and Moral Questions (Colorado State Medical Society, June, 1896).—Teit, James.: A Rock Painting of the Thompson River Indians, British Columbia (Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, vol. viii),—Thomas, H. M., and Keen, W. W.: A Successful Case of Removal of a Large Brain Tumor from the Left Frontal Region (American Journal of the Medical Sciences, November, 1896).

Sarg, J. F. A New Dairy Industry. Kempsville, Va.: Black Forest Farm. Pp. 162.

Shinn, Charles Howard. The Story of the Mine. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 272. $1.50.

Taylor, Henry Osborn. Ancient Ideals. Two vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. Pp. 461 and 430.

Thompson, Edward P. Röntgen Rays and Phenomena of the Anode and Cathode. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co. Pp. 190. $1.50.