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holds that oxygen stands at the head of the list of natural agencies for the removal of disease, and that "it is quite time we should practically realize, for we already theoretically admit, that this omnipresent, almost omnipotent, and yet commonplace element, can not be replaced, scarcely supplemented; that there is no known alterativealternative [sic], eliminator, or disinfectant comparable with it; . . . and that the original, normal, and only unobjectionable and universally efficient antiseptic is pure oxygen. . . . As a therapeutic agent, oxygen is not yet popular, nor yet the fashion; although for years enterprising quacks have been gathering a generous harvest, from honest dupes who have sickened of cruder quackery, by broadcast heralding of the magic virtues of some impossible 'compound' of it. Is it not high time that its intelligent use should be undertaken at the hands of legitimate and competent physicians, who have no secret wares to hawk about the country?"

Sanitary Suggestions. How to disinfect our Homes. By B. W. Palmer, M. D. Detroit, Mich.: George S. Davis. 1885. Pp. 58. 25 cents.

Ethical Culture. Four Lectures. By Samuel Burns Weston. Philadelphia. 1885. Pp. 70. 20 cents.

The Abdominal Brain. By Leila G. Bedell, M. D. Chicago: Gross & Delbridge. 1885. Pp. 45.

A New Philological Theory. By Professor A. J. Mogyorosi, Allegany, N. Y. Buffalo: Lockwood & Ough, Printers. 1885. Pp. 11.

Foul Brood. Its Management and Care. By D. A. Jones. Press of "Canadian Bee Journal," Beeton, Ontario. Pp. 82. 10 cents.

Shall we hang the Insane who commit Homicides? By Clark Bell, Esq., of New York. Reprinted from the "Medico-Legal Journal." Pp. 40.

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The Composition of American Wheat and Corn. By Clifford Richardson. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1884. Pp. 98.

Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America, 1884. Baltimore. 1885. Pp. 100.

Actinism. By Professor C. F. Himes, Ph. D. Reprinted from the "Journal of the Franklin Institute," May, 1885. Pp. 22. Illustrated.

The Periodical Cicada. By Charles V. Riley, Ph. D. Washington: Government Printing-Office, 1885. Pp. 46. Illustrated.

Public Health in Minnesota. The Official Publication of the State Board of Health. Monthly. Vol. I, No. 2, April, 1885. Pp. 8.

Remarks upon Chipped Stone Implements. By F. W. Putnam. Salem, Mass. 1885. Pp. 8. Illustrated.

Bulletin of the Brookville Society of Natural History of Franklin County, Indiana. O. M. Meyncke & C. F. Goodwin, Editors. No. 1. 1885. Published by the Society. Pp. 45.

The "Sanitary Monitor." J. T. Winn, M. D., Editor. Monthly, Richmond, Va. Vol. I, No. 1, May, 1885. Pp. 14. $1 a year.

Descriptions of some Peculiar Screw-like Fossils from the Chemung Rocks. By Professor John 8. Newberry. Reprint from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pp. 4. Illustrated.

Local Institutions of Maryland. By Lewis W. Wilhelm, Ph. D. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 1885. Pp. 120. $1.

Sixth Annual Report of the Archæological Institute of America. Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, 1885. Pp. 48.

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Smithsonian Institution, 1885. Vol. II. Pp. 195.

Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, No. 2. On the Quaternary and Recent Mollusca of the Great Basin, with Descriptions of New Forms. By R. Ellsworth Call. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1884. Pp. 56. Illustrated.

Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Medical Science in Japan. Tokio, May, 1885.

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Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare. By B. Rush Field, M. D. Easton, Pa. 1885. Pp. 86.

The Ohio State Sanitary Association. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting. From "The Sanitarian," May, 1885. Pp. 64.

Architectural Studies, Part I. Twelve Designs for Low-Cost Houses. New York: William T. Comstock. 1885.

International Electric Exhibition of 1884. Reports of the Examiners of Sections V, VI, and VI [I. Electric Lamps. Carbons for Arc-Lamps. Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute. 1885. Pp. 12. Illustrated.

Healthy Foundations for Houses. By Glenn Brown. New York: D. Van Nostrand. 1885. Pp. 143. 50 cents.

Lectures on the Science and Art of Education. By the late Joseph Payne. Syracuse: C. W. Bardeen, 1885. Pp. 281. $1.

Practical Botany. By F. O. Bower, and Sidney H. Vines, with a Preface by W. Thiselton Dyer. London: Macmillan &, Co. 1885. $1.50.

Matilda, Princess of England. A Romance of the Crusades. By Mme. Sophie Cottin. From the French by Jennie W. Rann. 2 vols. New York: W. S. Gottsberger. 1885. $1.75.

Talks Afield about Plants and the Science of Plants. By L. H. Bailey, Jr. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1885. Pp. 173. $1.

History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837. By Edward G. Bourne. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Pp. 161. $1.25.

Forests and Forestry of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and the Baltic Provinces of Russia. Compiled by John Croumbie Brown, LL D. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1885. Pp. 276.

An Elementary Treatise on Hydro-Mechanics. By Edward A. Bowser, LL. D. New York: D. Van Nostrand. 1885. Pp. 298. $2.50.

List of Tests. By Hans M. Wilder. New York: P. W. Bedford. 1885. Pp. 88. $1.

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