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Rh Urethral Stricture treated by Electrolysis. One Hundred Cases. By Robert Newman, M.D. Pp. 15.

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Evolution In the Vegetable Kingdom. By Lester F. Ward. Pp. 16.

Coloration of Naked Skin-Tracts of Geococcyx Californicus. By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. Pp. 2, with Plate.

The Metric System. By John Le Conte, Berkeley, Cal. Pp. 12.

Diseases of Farm Animals. Agricultural College of Michigan. Pp. 4.

"Journal of American Acadêmê." Alexander Wilder, Editor. Monthly. Newark N. J. Pp. 24. $2 a year.

New York Cancer Hospital. First Annual Report. Pp. 29.

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University of Pennsylvania: Department of Biology, Catalogue and Announcement. Pp. 9.

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The Shells of Pettis County, Missouri. By F. A. Sampson, Sedalia, Mo. Pp. 16.

Consanguineous Marriages: their Effect on Offspring. By Charles F. Withington, M.D. Roxbury, Mass. Pp. 32.

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The Relation of Annual Rings of Exogens to Age. By D. P. Penhallow. Pp. 16.

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Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 1880-1882. C. W. Hall, Secretary. Minneapolis. Pp. 80.

The Bentley-Knight Electric Railway Company, 115 Broadway, New York. With Plates.

Measurement of the Force of Gravity and Magnetic Constants at Ogasawarajima. By A. Tanakadate. Tokio, Japan: Tokio Dalgaku. Pp. 82.

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Report on the Production, Technology, and Uses of Petroleum and its Products. By S. F. Peckham. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 819.

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The New Star.—Astronomers have been surprised by the fact, which was first announced by Dr, Hartwig on the 29th of August, that a star of about the eighth magnitude had suddenly appeared in the middle of the great nebula of Andromeda. This nebula, the most conspicuous of all the phenomena of the kind, has long been regarded as a stellar nebula, since Mr. Huggins showed that its spectrum possessed the characteristics of stellar spectra, but it has never been resolved. The appearance of the new star within it, if it belong to it, which is not yet ascertained, may mark some important movement going on within it. The star was seen, within a few days of 