# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 27/October 1885/Literary Notices

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Collected Essays on Political and Social Science. By William Graham Sumner, Professor of Political and Social Science in Yale College. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Pp. 173. Price, $1.50.
This volume consists of discussions upon the following subjects: "Bimetallism";
The Microscope in Botany: A Guide to the Microscopical Investigation of Vegetable Substances. From the German of Dr. Julius Wilhelm Behrens. Translated and edited by Rev. A. B. Henry, assisted by R. H. Ward, M. D. Boston: S. E. Cassino & Co. Pp. 466, with Thirteen Plates. Price, $5.
According to the translator, this treatise occupies a field almost entirely to itself in the botanical literature both of Germany and now of the English-speaking world, and it is published with the hope that its influence will be to stimulate in this country investigations into the deeper problems of plant-life. The study of the literature of the subject shows that there is an open field for American botanists, for existing works almost exclusively involve the results of German research, while a few are of French origin, fewer still of English, and none whatever of American. The first purpose of the work is to guide students in all those inquiries relating to the physical products of cell-life in plants which may be conducted under the microscope, by means of chemical and other reactions. While it deals with the anatomical constitution of the cell, and of plant-tissue, its inquiries relate much more to physiological and biological processes than to matters purely anatomical and histological. The part of Dr. R. H. Ward in the preparation of the work consists in the revision of the two chapters which deal with the microscope and its accessories; and in these considerable changes have been made, as is proper in a work of the kind intended for American study, in the omission of illustrations and descriptions in the Continental style, which is comparatively unused and unavailable here, and the substitution of American forms. All ​the matter introduced by the American editors is distinguished by plain typographical devices.
The Treatment of Opium-Addiction. By J. B. Mattison, M. D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 49. Price, 50 cents.
This work embodies the substance of a paper read at the last meeting of the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates, and details the author's special method of treatment, which he has successfully practiced for several years. The author maintains that opium-addiction is a disease, seldom a vice, and should be treated as a disease. He advises against breaking off the practice abruptly, while he finds the other ordinary method of treatment, by gradual decrease of the opiate with tonics, inconveniently slow. His own method is a mean between the two extremes, and is based on the power of certain remedial resources to control abnormal reflex sensibility; and he claims for it the advantages of minimum duration of treatment and maximum freedom from pain.
The Field of Disease: A Book of Preventive Medicine. By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M. D. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co. Pp. 737.
The author has written this work, he says, "for those members of the intelligent reading public who, without desiring to trench on the province of the physician and surgeon, or to dabble in the science and art of medical treatment of disease, wish to know the loading facts about the diseases of the human family, their causes and prevention. Any one, therefore, who opens this book with the expectation of finding in it receipts and nostrums will not have that expectation fulfilled, and will discover reference to no remedies except such as are purely preventive in character." The old historical terms are used in preference to the new; that classification of diseases is preferred which has descended from the best scholars in medical science and art, and which is best known to the people at large. Of the relative value of curative and preventive medicine, the latter "is not a science, it is not an art separated necessarily or properly from so-called curative medicine. On the contrary, the study of cure and prevention proceed well together, and he is the most perfect sanitarian, and he is the most accomplished and useful physician, who knows most both of the prevention of disease and of the nature and treatment of disease; he who knows, in fact, the before and the after of each striking phenomenon of disease that is presented for his observation." The investigation of the subject is directed to the tracing of diseases from their actual representation, as they exist before us, in their natural progress after their birth, back to their origin, and, as far as is practicable, to seek the conditions out of which they spring; and, further, to investigate the conditions, to see how far they are removable and how far they arc avoidable.
The Windmill as a Prime Mover. By Alfred R. Wolff, M. E. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Pp. 159. Price, $3.
There may have been a time when windmills were considered antiquated and of no further use, but it is so no longer. These simple and economical sources of power are quite generally employed in all parts of our country, and their use is increasing, and, according to Mr. Wolff, it is now greater than at any other period in the history of the world. "To place the number of windmills at work in America," he says, "at several hundred thousand is to give an estimate which those who have been interested in this department of engineering, and who have traveled along the main railroad lines of the country, must pronounce as low." And we are further informed that in some single cities of the Union over five thousand windmills are manufactured, on an average, each year. For those kinds of work in which the power is not required to be constant, but can be taken when it comes—such as pumping and storing water, compressing and storing air, and driving dynamo-machines to charge electrical accumulators—no machines can be cheaper than windmills, and they are efficient enough. American manufacturers have made great improvements in the machines, and their patterns are pronounced much better than the European patterns, and destined to supersede them. Mr. Wolff's treatise is practical and a little literary, for it gives a very ​interesting chapter on the "Early History of Windmills." On the practical and economical side it has chapters on "Wind, its Velocity and Pressure"; "The Impulse of Wind on Windmill-Blades"; "Experiments on Windmills"; "The Capacity and Economy of the Windmill"; and "Useful Data in Connection with Windmill Practice"; with full accounts of the various European and American machines.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 1884. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 661, with Two Plates.
This is the seventh volume of the series of papers established in 1878, which the Institution publishes regularly in "signatures," as sixteen pages are accumulated from time to time, in order to present the matter as early as possible to the public. At the end of the "year the sheets are gathered up and embodied in a volume. The articles in this series consist, first, of papers published by the scientific corps of the National Museum; and, second, of interesting facts and memoranda from the correspondence of the Smithsonian Institution.
Local Institutions of Maryland. By Lewis W. Wilhelm, Ph. D. Baltimore: N. Murray. Pp. 129. Price, $1.
This work is a triple number of the series of "Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science." It presents a careful review of the course of growth of the institutions of the Commonwealth in question, including the organization of the land system: the constitution and functions of the hundred; the formation of the county; with the history of the beginnings of each, and the more tardy growth of the towns. In the last section we meet the interesting and suggestive observation, which we quote, that "no student of society can have watched the operations of the vital processes of the social organism and failed to notice the complex growth of certain institutions, and the corresponding decay in authority of officers associated with their development. The brooding, in society, of the spirit of democracy has tended to develop the institution, to multiply its organs, to strengthen its members, and foster its general growth, but at the same time there has been a corresponding contraction of the jurisdiction of its representative officer, and a diffusion of his powers among many associates. When we recall the full meaning of patria potestas, we are led to exclaim, 'The fathers, where are they? ' and the patriarchs, do they live forever? Quite often the serfs have become the sovereigns, and the sovereign has been reduced to a subject. Could great Augustus have seen the base uses to which the title 'emperor' had been put by barbarians, his heart would have died within him And who would recognize in the common hangman, or in the distrainer of house-rents, the sheriff or the constable of the proud Norman court? Could the voice of prophecy have told Charles Martel, who ruled the ruler of the Franks, that his title of major or mayor would descend to administrators of petty villages, he would have had additional reasons for moralizing upon the deceits of human greatness."
Report of the Operations of the United States Life-saving Service, for the Year ending June SO, 1884. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 476.
Five stations were added during the year, and the number of stations at its close was 201. Of these, 56 were on the Atlantic, 37 on the lakes, seven on the Pacific, and one at the Falls of the Ohio. The whole number of disasters reported was 430, endangering $10,607,940 of property, and the lives of 4,432 persons. Of the persons, all but twenty were saved, and only $1,446,586 of the property was lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 64. The Service has co-operated in scientific movements by assisting investigations in marine zoölogy, and by collecting "singing-sands" for examination by Professor II. C. Bolton. The concluding statement in the summarized report, regarding the character of the Service's men, is very suggestive. It is: "It is felt that seldom in the history of organizations has a body of men been assembled ​so equal in qualification for the stern tasks set them, and so splendid in their efficiency. That they can have such a character collectively is clearly attributable to their having been selected for their posts solely on professional and moral grounds, without the slightest reference to their politics. The constant purpose of the officers in charge has ever been to obtain for station duty the ablest and trustiest surfmen. Previous reports of the Service have made apparent how difficult it was, for years, to limit the choice of these agents to the simple tests of their ability and trustworthiness, and how great and absolute a help in this regard has been the statute of 1882, peremptorily exempting the selection from political influences. It can be safely said that in no instance have the requirements of that statute been disregarded, either in spirit or letter."
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals (1665 to 1882). Together with Chronological Tables and a Library Check-List. By Henry Carrington Bolton. Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 776.
The mass of periodical literature has become stupendous; and the real importance it has attained is hardly less striking than its magnitude. The literature in some departments embodied in periodicals has nearly overtaken in value that which has been collected in books, and in the present course and tendencies of publication bids fair, before long, to pass it. In science, especially, is that which is comprehended in periodical publications indispensable to the investigator who would make real progress. A large proportion of the experiments of the past and of the details of results attained can not be given in books, but must always be sought for in the periodicals in which the records first appeared. A perfect index to this literature would lead the inquirer directly to every experiment; but such an index can hardly be hoped for at present, and would be of inconvenient bulk, if it existed. We must take it in parts. In this work Professor Bolton has given a very important part—a list of scientific periodicals, alphabetically arranged, with the cross-references so necessary in every work of the dictionary class; classified according to the subject; with a chronological table showing the date when each volume of each periodical was published; and an alphabetical index to that; and a partial list—as complete as it could be made for the first issue—of the libraries in the United States and Canada where the several periodicals may be found. This catalogue and the "Catalogue of Scientific Serials," published by Mr. Scudder in 1879, complement one another. Mr. Scudder's catalogue includes the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physical, and mathematical sciences, and technical journals only to a limited extent; the present work is confined to scientific and technical "periodicals" proper, excluding society proceedings and transactions, but including periodicals devoted to the "applications" of science. Medicine has been excluded, but anatomy, physiology, and veterinary science, being related to zoölogy, have been admitted. Of the category of included subjects, it contains the principal independent periodicals of all branches published in all countries, from the rise of the literature in question to the close of the year 1882. The effort has been made to give full titles and names of editors. In some debatable cases titles have been admitted, on the ground, as enunciated by Buchold, that "in a bibliography it is much better that a book should be found which is not sought, than that one should be sought for and not found." The cross-references are from the later to the first title of a periodical which has suffered changes in title; from short titles in common use to the accurate designations; from the names of the principal editors to the journals conducted by them; and, in the case of astronomical publications, from the places in which the observatories arc situated to the titles of the periodicals issued therefrom. The library check-list has been prepared from the data afforded in the answers to circulars which were sent out to two hundred libraries, of which one hundred and twenty librarians responded. The material for the work was gathered from all available bibliographies, personal examination of the shelves and the catalogues of many libraries in the United States, as well as of important libraries in England, France, and Germany, and from the answers to circulars ​sent to publishers asking for specimen numbers of their periodicals. The catalogue includes the titles of five thousand one hundred and five periodicals in the English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Scandinavian, Hungarian, and Slavic languages, of which two thousand one hundred and fifty are placed in the library check-list. Ninety-four subjects are included in the classified list, in which periodicals devoted to general science do not enter. Of these subjects, the most numerously represented is that of agriculture.
Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. By N. H. Winchell, State Geologist. First Annual Report, 1872, pp. 112; Tenth do., 1881, pp. 254, with Fifteen Plates; Eleventh do., 1882, pp. 219; Twelfth do., 1883, pp. 387, with Map and Plates.
The first report includes an historical sketch and list of publications relating to the geology and natural history of Minnesota, beginning with Father Hennepin's book, and a general sketch of the geology of the State. The "tenth report" contains descriptions of about four hundred rock samples and notes on their geological relations, continued from the previous report; a paper on the Potsdam sandstone, papers on the Crustacea of the fresh waters of Minnesota, etc. The "eleventh report" includes a report on the mineralogy of the State; and papers on the crystalline rocks; rock outcrops in Central Minnesota; Lake Agassiz (a large, ancient lake, of which traces are found in an extensive region); the iron region of Northern Minnesota, etc. The "twelfth report" is mainly devoted to paleontology and the fauna and flora.
Life of Frank Buckland. By his Brother-in-Law, George C. Bompas. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Pp. 433. Price, $2.
Few men have been privileged to do more to popularize science, as represented in natural history, and to spread abroad love for animals, than the subject of this memoir. His life was very largely devoted to the study of animated nature, to the development of its economical value, and the collection and increase of information on every aspect of it. The objects with which he labored, and the principles by which he was guided are well expressed in the counsel he gave in the first number of "Land and Water," in January, 1866: "Let none," he said, "think himself unable to advance the great cause of natural history. Thousands of Englishmen and Englishwomen have knowledge and experience, acquired by their actual observation of useful facts relating to animated beings, be they beasts, birds, insects, reptiles, fishes, or plants. Friendly controversy and argument are invited on all questions of practical natural history, and although the odium salmonicum not unfrequently assumes more virulence than even the odium theologicum of the good old days of fagot and stake, no writer need fear that his pet theory shall be ruthlessly set on fire, or that his arguments shall be decapitated, without a fair and friendly hearing." Mr. Bompas has given a very picturesque and engaging story of a man who was certainly one of the liveliest characters in the history of science.
Forests and Forestry in Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and the Baltic Provinces of Russia. Compiled by John Croumbie Brown. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; Montreal: Dawson Brothers. Pp. 276.
Dr. Brown follows up his review of the condition of the forests and of forestry in the several countries of Europe with praiseworthy industry and devotion to the cause of reclothing the waste places of the earth. The present volume is like the others of the series which we have noticed in plan and style. It gives accounts of the countries and peoples, and their history so far as it is connected with forestry, and detailed information concerning the present extent, use, and care of the forests.
Magneto- and Dynamo-Electric Machines; with a Description of Electric Accumulators. From the German of Glaser de Cew. New York: D. Van Nostrand. Pp. 301.
This is the first volume of a new series, called "The Specialist Series," to be edited by Dr. Paget Higgs and Professor Charles Forbes, the purpose of which is to impart information on recent technical subjects in a manner suited to the popular intelligence. Concerning the immediate subject of the ​present volume, after noticing the extravagant views that were at first entertained of the machines, the editors say: "Now the dynamo is likely to take a fair stand in the rank of useful machines; for a time it was a machine regarded as likely to revolutionize all the mechanical world; now it is coming to be considered in its true light as a very valuable aid and auxiliary to steam and other prime movers, extending their sphere, and making more easy their application. For these reasons, it is assumed that the public interested in such technical matters are desirous of a more intimate knowledge of the principles of these machines, and this knowledge it is the object of the present hand-book to supply."
Lectures on the Science and Art of Education, with other Lectures and Essays by the late Joseph Payne. Reading-Club edition. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen, publisher. Pp. 281.
Among the multitude of books that are teeming from the press on the subject of education, this is one of the soundest and safest, and really the most advanced in its spirit, and in the principles it labors to inculcate. Its editor says in his preface: "It must be remembered that this volume was not prepared by the author as a text-book, but is simply a compilation of addresses and papers delivered at different times and under different circumstances. Hence the same truth is often repeated, not only in different expression, but with different application." Only by an intelligent comparison of these various statements can Professor Payne's views be thoroughly understood; and, for this comparison, these analyses are almost indispensable. The central principle of Professor Payne's system stands out boldly, and is reiterated at every opportunity, that the pupil "knows only what he has discovered for himself, and that in this process of discovery the teacher is only a guide."
He thus closes his masterly lecture on "The True Foundation of Science-Teaching": "I do not for a moment deny that much is to be gained from the study of scientific text-books. It would be absurd to do so. What I do deny is, that the reading up of books on science—which is, strictly speaking, a literary study either is or can possibly be a training in scientific method. To receive facts in science on any other authority than that of the facts themselves; to get up the observations, experiments, and comments of others instead of observing, experimenting, and commenting ourselves; to learn definitions, rules, abstract propositions, technicalities, before we personally deal with the facts which lead up to them—all this, whether in literary or scientific education—and especially the latter—is of the essence of cramming, and is therefore entirely opposed to, and destructive of, true mental training and discipline."
Lectures on Teaching, delivered in the University of Cambridge, during the Lent Term, 1880. By J. G. Fitch, M. A., Assistant Commissioner to the late Endowed Schools Commission, and one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. New edition. With a Preface by an American Normal Teacher. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1885. Pp. 393. Price, $1.
We have previously spoken in emphatic praise of this able educational work, and are glad to see that it has now been brought out in a cheaper edition. Fitch is probably the best authority on general education connected with the English school system. He is thoroughly informed and thoroughly practical, and his book should be in the hands of every teacher who has capacity or liberty to think upon the subject of teaching.
Talks Afield: About Plants and the Science of Plants. By L. H. Bailey, Jr. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 173. Price, $1.
This little book has many pictures, and contains many interesting explanations and descriptions of vegetable processes and general plant phenomena. It will interest all who have botanical tastes, and will assist to develop those tastes where they do not exist.
Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics. By Balfour Stewart, F. R. S., and W. W. Haldengee. Vol. I. General Physical Processes. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 291. Price, $1.50.
This is a manual for the physical laboratory, and is mainly devoted to instruments and apparatus. It deals chiefly with experimental determinations of length, angular measurement, mass, density, elasticity, ​pressure, gravitation, and kindred conceptions, but is to be followed in due course by a volume on "Electricity and Magnetism," and by a third work on "Heat, Light, and Sound." The names of Balfour Stewart, Professor of Physics in the Owens College, Manchester, and of his assistant demonstrator in physics, are sufficient guarantee that the work is thoroughly done.
The Nature of Mind and Human Automatism. By Morton Prince, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Pp. 173. Price, $1.50.
This is a closely reasoned discussion of the essential issues of materialism. It first took form several years ago as a graduating medical thesis, which the author did not publish at the time, as he preferred to wait for further reflection and investigation of the subject. It is predominantly polemic, as Dr. Prince finds himself brought into collision with the views of Tyndall, Fiske, Huxley, and Spencer, which he controverts with much acuteness. He ranks himself as a materialist under his own view of what materialism is, and finds himself in more decided harmony with the doctrines of Professor Clifford than with those of any other recent or contemporary thinkers upon this subject. We can not undertake to expound the view of the relations of body and mind which seems to him most rational, but unhesitatingly recommends his work to all who are looking for a vigorous and original treatment of the profound problems to which the volume is devoted.
Outlines of Psychology. Dictations from Lectures by Hermann Lotze. Translated, with a chapter on "The Anatomy of the Brain," by C. L. Herrick. Illustrated. Minneapolis, Minn.: S. M. Williams. Pp. 149, with Plates. Price, $1.25.
Much has been said of the claims of Lotze as a philosopher, psychologist, physiologist, etc., and, as his translator here remarks, he "is rapidly gaining recognition even in America." It was time, therefore, that he should be translated, and a good beginning is here made in this little volume. Those who can not read him in the original may now judge of his claims, and get the benefit of his contributions to philosophy.
On Teaching: Its Ends and Means. By Henry Calderwood, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Third edition. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 126. Price, 50 cents.
This book emanates from a distinguished source, and, while Professor Calderwood has a recognized prominence as a philosopher, he is also a practical teacher of long experience in every grade, and besides has had much to do with the management of the Edinburgh public schools. It would be unjust to say that his book is without merit.; there is much in it that is worth attending to, but it is not of the high grade that we should expect from the position and opportunities of its author. A better book was due from him than any we have on the subject of moral education; but he contributes nothing new or of moment to that most important branch of the art of school management. He seems to be steeped in the pedagogical idea, and is more dominated by the old methods than becomes an original and independent critic of the subject. The first words of his introduction are, "Every one recognizes that a person can teach only what he knows"; but this is so far from being true, that the most successful study may take the form of self-teaching, where the teacher is ignorant of a subject and joins the pupil as a student in pursuing it. Professor Calderwood, however, guards against such an interpretation of his dictum as would imply that instruction is the sole end of teaching; but self-instruction has no such leading place in his system as we think it should have in any rational system of education.
Properties of Matter. By P. G. Tait, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. Pp. 320. Price, $2.25.
Though the name of Black appears upon the title-page of this work as publisher, yet that of Macmillan & Co. is stamped upon the back, and it is announced as one of Macmillan's "Manuals for Students." It is, of course, a good book of its kind, for Tait knows how to do good work. But, though claiming to be an elementary book, it must still be regarded as an advanced text-book, and is intended for students who are " ​supposed to have a sound knowledge of ordinary geometry and a moderate acquaintance with the elements of algebra and trigonometry." The author adds in his preface, but he (the student) "is also supposed to have—what he can easily obtain from the simple parts of the first two chapters of Thompson & Tait's 'Elements of Natural Philosophy,' or from Clerk Maxwell's excellent little treatise on 'Matter and Motion' a general acquaintance with the fundamental principles of kinematics of a point and of kinetics of a particle." It was the author's intention to complete his series of text-books by similar volumes on "Dynamics," "Sound," and "Electricity."
Theory and Practice of Teaching. By Rev. Edward Turing. New and revised edition. Cambridge: University Press. Pp. 262. Price, $1.
We noticed the first edition of this spirited book at the time of its appearance. It is very readable, but full of English views upon the subject, although many of them are as applicable here as anywhere. We are glad to see that it has been amplified and improved.
Third Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Illinois. 1884. John S. Lord, Secretary. Springfield. Pp. 654.
The contents of this report are presented in three parts, each of which is devoted to some special fine of statistical inquiry on the general topic of industrial affairs in Illinois, and the relations which the different classes engaged in them sustain to each other and to the State. The first part contains an investigation designed to ascertain what proportion of the results of manual labor in manufactures accrues to the proprietor and what to the workman. In part second are presented the results of special investigations made by the bureau into the economical and social condition of the industrial classes of the State; and the third part gives comprehensive statistics of coal mining and the manufacture of drain-tile in Illinois; with a report on the model industrial community at Pullman, in which are expressed the conclusions reached by a number of representatives from the various State Bureaus of Labor Statistics, after an investigation extending through several days.
Progress of Astronomy in the Year 1884, by Professor Edward S. Holden, pp. 55; Progress in Zoölogy in the Year last, by Professor Theodore Gill, pp. 93; Progress in Vulcanology and Seismology in the Years 1883, 1884, by Professor Charles G. Rockwood, Jr., pp. 21; Antiquities at Pantaleon, Guatemala, by Lieutenant, Charles E. Vreeland, U. S. N., and J. F. Bransford, U. S. N, pp. 12; Papers relating to Anthropology, pp. 38. All from the Smithsonian Report for 1884. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1885.
Crystallization, by Dr. Persifor Frazer, pp. 11; The Tehuantepec Ship Railway, by E. L. Corthill, C. E., pp. 33. Reprints from the-"Journal of the Franklin Institute," Philadelphia. 1885.
Report of a Special Committee of the Franklin Institute on the Efficiency and Duration of Incandescent Electric Lamps. Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute. 1885. Pp. 127.
Publications of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy of Harvard College, Mass. Pp. 8.
Proceedings of the Illinois State Board of Health. Quarterly Meeting, Chicago, July 2-3, 1885. Pp. 26.
Notes on the Island of Jura, Scotland, pp. 5; and Syenite and Gabbro in Massachusetts, pp. 3. By Dr. M. E. Wadsworth.
An Olivine-bearing Diabase from St. Georges, Maine. By Q. E. Dickerman and M. E. Wadsworth. Pp. 2.
Meteorology of the Mountains and Plains of North America, as affecting the Cattle-growing Industries of the United States. By Silas Burt. St. Louis, Mo. 1885. Pp. 7.
Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. Edited by H. Newell Martin and W. K. Brooks. Vol. III, No. 3. Baltimore: N. Murray. June, 1885. Pp. 72. 75 cents.
Influence of the Proprietors in founding the State of New Jersey. By Austin Scott, Ph. D. Baltimore: N. Murray. August. 1885. Pp. 26.
Niagara Park. Original and Selected Descriptions, Poems, and Adventures, by Various Writers. Edited by Alice Hyneman Rhine. New York: Niagara Publishing Company. 1885. Pp. 112. Illustrated. 50 cents.
A Canterbury Pilgrimage, Ridden, Written, and Illustrated, by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1885 Pp. 78. 50 cents.
Creation. Man's Fall explained in the Light of Modern Science. New York: Lawrence S. Benson. 1885. Pp. 15. 15 cents.
The Modification of Plants by Climate. By A. A. Crozier, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Author. 1885. Pp. 35. 25 cents.
The Song Budget, for Schools and Educational Gatherings. Compiled by E. V. De Graff, A. M. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen. 1885. Pp. 76. 15 cents.
"The Black Diamond." Published in the interest of the coal-trade industry, F. S. Jervis and H. A. Bischoff, Editors. Chicago: The National Coal Exchange. Monthly. Pp. 12. $1 a year.
"The Hoosier Naturalist." A. C. Jones. R. B. Trouslot, Editors and Publishers. Valparaiso, Ind. Monthly. Pp. 8. 50 cents a year.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy of Harvard College. Vol. XII. No. 1. Chlamydoselachus Anguineus Garm—A Living Species of Cladodont Stork. By S. Garman. Cambridge. 1885. Pp. 35, and numerous Plates.
The Utilization of the Sun's Rays in heating and ventilating Apartments. By Professor E. S. Morse. Pp. 8.
The Attraction and the Figure of Equilibrium of a Rotating Fluid Mass and the Interior Density and Temperature of the Earth. By D. P. Blackstone. Madison, Wis. 1885. Pp. 58.
Fiat Money. A Review of the Decisions of the ​United States Supreme Court as to its Constitutionality. By Francis A. Brooks. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1885. Pp. 28.
Sanitary Engineering. A Course of Study recently established at the school of Mines of Columbia College, New York.
Sibley College, Cornell University, Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts. 1885.
A. Memoir of Charles Hilton Fogge, M.D. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. Pp. 7.
The Relation of Annual Rings of Exogens to Age. By D. P. Penhallow. From the "Canadian Record of Science." 1885. Pp. 14.
Valdimir. A Poem of the Snow. New York: H. Lockwood. 1885. Pp. 46. 25 cents.
Second Annual Report of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass. 1884. Boston: Wright & Potter. 1885. Pp. 166.
Transactions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, with the Report of the Secretary. Vol. IX. Topeka: T. D. Thatcher. 1885. Pp. 146.
Success in Life physiologically considered. By James T. Seavey, M.D. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Pp. 39.
Possibility of Errors in Scientific Researches due to Thought Transference. By E. C. Pickering. From Proceedings of American Society for Psychical Research. Pp. 43.
Contributions to our Knowledge of Sewage. By William Ripley Nichols and C. R. Allen. Pp. 6.
"The Sun." A bi-monthly publication devoted to Coöperation. Vol. I, No. 1. Subject: Prohibition. Kansas City, Mo. C. T. Fowler. Pp. 28. 10 cents.
The Story of Manitou. Denver, Col. S. K. Hooper. Pp. 64. Illustrated.
"The Journal of Physiology." Vol. VI, Nos. 4 and 5. Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. July, 1885.
The Minting of Gold and Silver, pp. 20; and Placer Mines and Mining Ditches, pp. 64. By Albert Williams, Jr. From the Report of the Tenth Census of the United States.
Zoölogic Whist and Zoönomia. Representing the Orders of the Animal Kingdom. By Hyland C. Kirk. New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1885. $1.
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The America's Cup. How it was won by the Yacht America in 1851, and has been since defended. By Captain Roland P. Coffin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1885. Pp. 155. $1.
Lawn Tennis as a Game of Skill. By Lieutenant 9. C. F. Peile, M. S. C. Edited by Richard D. Sears. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1885. Pp. 90. 75 cents.
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Chemical Problems. By Dr. Karl Stammer. From the German, by W. S. Hoskinson, A. M. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 1885. Pp. 112. 75 cents.
Ballooning. A Concise Sketch of its History and Principles. By G. May. New York: D. Van Nostrand. 1885. Pp. 04.
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Barbara Heathcote's Trial. A Novel. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1885. Pp. 503. 50 cents.
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Malthus and his Work. By Joseph Bonar, M.A. London: Macmillan & Co. 1885. Pp. 432. $4.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1883. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1885. Pp. 959.
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