Popular Science Monthly/Volume 53/July 1898/Publications Received

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins and Reports. Connecticut: Report for 1897. Part IV. Pp. 100; Bulletin 126. Insecticides. Pp. 12; No. 127. Cost of Plant Food. Pp. 10.—Cornell University: No. 146. Fourth Report of Progress on Extension Work. Pp. 28.—Michigan: Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and Ninth of the Experiment Station. Pp. 540.—New Hampshire College: Press No. 30. Fertilizers. Pp. 1; No. 50. Dehorning Cattle. By F. W. Rane and H. H. Lamson. Pp. 12; Sweet Corn. By F. W. Rane. Pp. 24.—New York: Nos. 127, 128. Popular Edition. Small Fruits in 1897; No. 136. Inspection of Nurseries, etc. Pp. 30, with plates: ditto. Popular Edition. Pp. 10, with plates; Popular Editions. No. 1.37. Potato Fertilizing. Pp. 5; No. 138. Diseases of Plants Pp. 6; No. 139. Combating Plant Lice. Pp. 5, with plates; No. 140. Wood Ashes and Apple Scab. Pp.; No. 141. Stock Feeding. Pp. G; No. 142. Director's Report for 1897. Pp. 12.—North Dakota: No. 32. Chemical Studies. Pp. 12.—Ohio: No. 31. Lung and Stomach Worms of Sheep. Pp. 16.—United States Division of Forestry: Progress in Timber Physics. Pp. 20.—West Virginia: No. 50. The Periodical Cicada. By A. D. Hopkins. Pp. 48; No. 51. Commercial Fertilizers. By H. H. Hite. Pp. 36, with chart; Spray Calendar. By L. C. Corbet. Chart.

American Agriculturist Yearbook and Almanac for 1808. New York: Orange Judd Company. Pp. 665. 50 cents.

Beker, Gustabo Adolfo. Primas. Valparaiso, Chile: Karlos Kabezon. Pp. 181.

Bickerton, A. W. A New Story of the Stars. Christ Church, New Zealand. Pp. 150.

Bulletins and Reports. Michigan: Monthly Bulletin of Vital Statistics. April, 1898. Pp. 20.—National Association of Wool Manufacturers: Quarterly. June, 1898. Pp. 100. 50 cents.—New York State Library: Director's Report, 1897. Pp. 69. 10 cents.-New York Zoological Society: Second Annual Report. Pp. 143, with plates.—O'Sullivan, Henry: Report of Progress of Exploration in the Counties between Lake St. John and James Bay, Quebec—Philadelphia: Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools for 1897. Pp. 119.—Schimmel & Co.: Semiannual Report (essential oils, etc.). Leipzig and New York. Pp. 59.—United States Department of Labor: Bulletin No. 16. May, 1888. Alaskan Gold Fields. Washington. Pp. 212.—United States House of Representatives: Report on National Exposition in 1899. Pp. 19.

Chautauquan, The Texas-Colorado. Monthly. April, 1898. Boulder and Fort Worth. Pp. 16. 5 cents.

Dana, James D. Revised Text-Book of Geology. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Edited by William North Rice. American Book Company. Pp. 482.

Fobs, Dr. Das Freiherrlich von Sieretorpff-Cramm'sche Bad Driburg in seinen alten and neuesten Heilfactoren, etc. (Pamphlet about the Driburg bath, Germany, and hygienic bathing in general.) Brunswick: F. Vieweg & Son. Pp. 33.

Garnett, Richard. A History of Italian Literature. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 431. $1.50.

Illinois Steel Company, Chicago. Mineral Wool for Insulation of Cold Storage and Use in Architecture. Pp. 16.

La Barra, Eduardo de. Literatura Arcaica. Valparaiso, Chile: K. Newman. Pp. 373.

McConachie, Lauros G. Congressional Committees. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. Pp. 441.

Mercer, Henry C. Light and Fire Making. Philadelphia: MacCalla & Co. Pp. 29. 50 cents.

Minero, El, Mexicano (The Mexican Miner). Weekly. Mexico. Pp. 10.

Parkhurst. H. E. How to Name the Birds. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp 115. $1.

Proceedings, Transactions, etc. Kansas Academy of Sciences: Transactions, 1895-'96. Pp. 226.—Medico-Legal Society of New York: The Truth about Cigarettes. Pp. 48.—Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science: Eighteenth Annual Meeting. Pp. 85.

Pyburn, George. Labor the Creator of Capital (Quarterly Studies in Socialism, No. 2). Girard, Kan.: J. A. Weisland. Pp. 20. 5 cents.

Reeves, Edward. Brown Men and Women, or the South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 291. $3.50.

Reprints. Femow, B. E.: Division of Forestry. Pp. 20.—Gilford, John. Forestry on the Peninsula of Eastern Virginia. Pp. 4.—Kenyon, r. C.: The Terminology of the Neurocyte or Nerve Cell. Pp. 3.—Herter, C. A., M. D.: An Experimental Study of Fat Starvation, with Especial Reference to the Production of Serous Atrophy of Fat. Pp. 22, with plates.—Otis, D. H.: Root Tubercles and their Production by Inoculation. Pp. 16, with plate.—Rosse, Irving C, Washington: Brief Mention of Neurological Cases Successfully Treated. Pp. 8.—Stuve, E.: Do Vivisectionists inflict Unnecessary Suffering in their Investigations? Pp. 8.—Williamson, Mrs. M. B.: A Vanishing Island. Pp. 4.

Reye, Theodor. Lectures on the Geometry of Position. Translated and edited by Thomas P. Holgate. Part I. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 248. $2.25.

Shaler, N. S. Outlines of the World's History. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 417. $1.75.

Smithsonian Institution: Publications available for Distribution. April, 1898. Pp. 20.

Story, A. T. The Story of Photography. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 169. 40 cents.

Treadwell, Augustus. The Storage Battery. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 257. $1.75.

United States Geological Survey. Eighteenth Annual Report. Part V (continued). Mineral Resources of the United States. 2 vols. Pp. 1400.

University of Tennessee Record. No. 1: Review of 1897. Knoxville. Pp. 66.

Waring, George E, Jr. Street Cleaning in the City of New York, 1895, 196, 1897. Pp. 234.

Wiley, John, & Sons. Announcements of Ladd's Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis, and Wells's Short Course in Inorganic Qualitative Analysis.