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name of the book is taken from Bichat, who first used the term. The purpose is to maintain that not the brain and spinal cord alone, but the whole nervous system, particularly that part of it called the sympathetic, is concerned in the operations of mind. The author refers, in her introduction, to a paper by Dr. W. A. Hammond, which was published in "The Popular Science Monthly" after her essay was read in her society, the "Woman's Physiological Institute of Chicago," as bearing on her subject, and indicating that there is a place in science for her views,

believes that those writers on languages are wrong who regard the Aryan and Shemitic families as presenting the most perfect types of structure, and ignore the Turanian family, which is, he suggests, to the others as the center to the right and left wings. He illustrates his position by several examples of word-roots as they appear in the several families, in which the Magyar serves as the type of the Turanian.

The Iroquois Sacrifice of the White Doer. Pp. 8. On Some Doubtful or Intermediate Articulations: au Experiment in Phonetics. Pp. 12. By Horatio Hale.

Notes on the Literature of Explosives. No. VIII. By Professor Charles E. Munroe, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Pp. 18.

The Soaring Birds. A Mechanical Problem. By I. Lancaster. Chicago. Pp. 22.

Woman, a Poem. By Logan E. Bleckley. Clarksville, Ga. Pp. 23.

A Study of Thermometers, etc. By O. T. Sherman. Pp. 4.

A Plea for the Medicinal Use of Pure Alcohol, etc. By Henry Leffmann, M. D. Philadelphia. Pp. 10.

The Spirit of Scientific Progress. By Harvey W. Wiley, Ph. D. Pp. 20.

Quarterly Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, to March 31, 1885. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 144.

Crop Report (Georgia) for July. 1883. J. T. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta. Pp. 28.

International Electrical Exhibition (Philadelphia) Reports. Carbons for Arc Lamps. Pp. 16. Steam Boilers. Pp. 39. General Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Exhibitions. Pp. 54.

The Western Society for Psychical Research. Chicago. Constitution and Rules. Pp. 8.

The Terraces of Rotomahana. a Poem. By Frank Cowan. To which is prefixed a Paper on Geyser Eruptions and Terrace Formations. By Josiah Martin, F. G. S. Auckland, N. Z. Pp. 61.

Marginal Kames. By H. Carvill Lewis. Philadelphia. Pp. 26.

Report of Proceedings of the Illinois State Board of Health, July Meeting. 1885. Pp. 26.

Teachers' Institutes (Bureau of Education Circular). Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 206.

The Missouri Coteau and its Moraines. By Professor J. E. Todd, Tabor, Iowa. Salem, Mass. Salem Press. Pp. 12, with Plate.

Cocaine Hydrochloride. New York: Druggists' Circular Press. Pp. 97.

"Dio Lewis's Nuggets." Dio Lewis, Editor. Monthly. August, 1885. New York: Dio Lewis Publishing Company. Pp. 38. 10 cents a number, $1 a year.

Minnesota. Its Resources and Possibilities. By Professor C. W. Hall, Mr. D. C. Bell, and Rev. J. H. Morley. Minneapolis. Pp. 32.

A New Physical Truth. By E. J. Goodwin, M. D., Solitude, Ind. Pp. 32.

Hydatid Tumors in the Brain. By R. Harvey Reed, M. D. Mansfield, Ohio. Pp. 16.

Account of the Progress of Chemistry in 1884. by H. Carrington Bolton. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 52.

Observations of Comets. By J. G. Porter and H. C. Wilson. Cincinnati. Pp. 29, with 13 Plates.

The Latest Systems of Medicine. By J. G. Reeve, M. D. Dayton, Ohio. Pp. 33.

"Man. A Semi-Monthly Journal." Ottawa, Canada. Pp. 8. 5 cents a number, $1 a year.

Cholera, etc. By J. B. McConnell, M. D. Montreal: Robert Miller, Son & Co. Pp. 40.

Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. Biographical Notice. By George W. Maynard. New York. Pp. 7.

Trichina Spiralis. Including an Examination of Indiana Hogs. By Thomas B. Redding, F. R. M. S. Newcastle, Ind. Pp. 44

Universal or Cosmic Time. By Sanford Fleming. Toronto, Ont.: Copp, Clark & Co.

Fodder Analyses. Blue-Joint Grass Hay. Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst.

"The Massachusetts Magazine." Conducted by John N. McClintock. Boston: J. A. Cline & Co. Monthly, August, 1885. Pp. 64. 25 cents a number, $2.50 a year.

United States Hay-Fever Association. 1885. Portland, Me.: Hoyt, Fogg & Dunham. Pp. 39.

State Board of Health of Wisconsin. Eighth Report. Madison, Wis. Pp. 160.

Truth, a Poem. By Edwin N. Kingsley. Pp. 57. 25 cents.

Bible Fabrications refuted. By O. B. Whitford. Pp. 47. 15 cents. And St. Matthew before the Court. Pp. 88. New York Truth-seeker Company. 10 cents.

Smithsonian Institution. Report of Professor Spencer F. Baird, Secretary. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 98.

Accounts of Progress. 1884. Geography. By Commander F. M. Green, U. S. Navy. Pp. 19. North American Paleontology. By J. B. Marcon. Pp. 20. Meteorology. By Professor Cleveland Abbe. Pp. 176. Physics. By Professor G. F. Barker. Pp. 57. Chemistry. By B. H. Carrington Bolton. Pp. 52. Mineralogy. By Professor E S. Dana. Pp. 19. Anthropology. By Professor O. T. Mason. Pp. 41. All Smithsonian Reports. Washington: Government Printing-Office.

Lectures on Teaching. By J. G. Fitch, M. A. New edition, with a Preface. By an American Normal Teacher. New York: Macmlllan & Co. 1885. Pp. 393. $1.