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Rh, particularly in the fields which are opened out by the selections.

C. N. Caspar, of Milwaukee, has announced a Complete Volapük Dictionary; in Volapük-English and English-Volapük, by Klas August Linderfelt. It is based on the last editions of the dictionaries of Schleyer and Kerckhoffs. Schleyer's dictionary is said to contain more than twenty thousand words, from which it will be seen that Volapük already has a considerable vocabulary. A new feature is added in the present work, in indicating the source and language from which each Volapük word is derived. From this it appears that more than sixty per cent of the radical words have their origin in the English language. Prof. Linderfelt's manual of Volapük has been very successful, three editions of four thousand copies each having already been published.

The ninth and tenth volumes of the Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington (Smithsonian Institution, publisher), bound in one, contain the minutes of the society and of the Mathematical Section for 1886 and 1887, together with the proceedings of the Baird memorial meeting. A number of valuable papers are included in the Transactions. Among them are two presidential addresses: the first, by John S. Billings, at the December meeting of 1886, on "Scientific Men and their Duties"; and the second, by William Harkness, in 1887, on "The Progress of Science as exemplified in the Art of Weighing and Measuring." Another valuable paper is the discussion of the Charleston earthquake. The addresses at the Baird memorial meeting, by Messrs. Garrick Mallery, William B. Taylor, William H. Dall, and J. W. Powell, present incidents and estimates and illustrations of Prof. Baird's character from several points of view.

The Woman's Temperance Publication Association, Chicago, publish, under the title of Our Standard-Bearer, the life sketches and speeches of General Clinton B. Fisk, Prohibition candidate for President, by the Rev. John O. Foster, with an introduction by Frances E. Willard. Although primarily designed for a campaign document, the work is something more, and contains a pleasing miscellany of "army stories" and a record of active participation in works of benevolence.

The seventh volume of the Archivos do Museu Nacional (Archives of the National Museum), of Rio Janeiro, is of particular interest to us, because it is all the work of American students and authors. It includes the results of the studies of the Cretaceous invertebrate fossils made in the course of the prosecution of the Brazilian geological survey, under the direction of Prof. C. F. Hartt, which fossils were carefully preserved by Mr. Orville A. Derby, as director of the Geological Section of the National Museum, and have been examined by Dr. Charles A. White, of Washington, whose report upon them and specific descriptions constitute the text of the work. Twenty-eight plates of illustrations accompany the letterpress.

Abbott, Helen C. D., Philadelphia. The Chemical Basis of Plant Forms. Pp. 27. Comparative Chemistry of Higher and Lower Plants. Pp. 24.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Journal of the. Second Series. Vol. IX, Part II. Pp. 111.

American Society for Psychical Research, Proceedings of the. Vol. I, No. III. Boston: Damrell & Upham. Pp. 283. 50 cents.

Boaz, Franz, New York. Meteorologische Beobachtungen im Cumberland-Sunde. Pp. 22. Myths and Legends of the Catloltq. Pp. 11. Mythologie der nordwest-amerikanischen Küstenvölker.

Bray, Rev. Henry T., Boonville, Mo. Essays on God and Man. Pp. 270. $2.

Bryce. P., M. D, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Moral and Criminal Responsibility. Pp. 22.

Clarke, Frank W. The Constants of Nature. Part I. A Table of Specific Gravity for Solids and Liquids. Washington; The Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 409.

Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara, N. T. Report for 1887. Pp.!33.

Cornell University. Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station. No. II. Pp. 12.

Curme, George O. Selected Poems from Premières et Nouvelles Mèditations of Lamartine. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. Pp. 179. 75 cents.

Dalaud, Rev. William C, Leonardsville, N. Y. The Song of Songs. Pp. 50. 50 cents.

D'Ooge, Benjamin L. Colloquia Latina. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. Pp. 81. 30 cents.

Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Journal of the, Chapel Hill, N. C. January to June, 1888. Pp. 53.

Georgia Department of Agriculture. Crop Report for August, 1388. Pp. 29.

Griswold, William M., East Capitol Station, D. C. Index to Harper's Weekly, 1857-1887. Pp. 25.

Harvard College Observatory, Annals of. Vol. XVIII, No. 3. Photometric Observations of Asteroids, by Henry M. Parkhurst. Pp. 44, No. 4. Total Eclipse of the Moon. January 28, 1888. Pp. 11, No. 5. Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 29, 1886, by William H. Pickering. Pp. 27.

Hoffman, W. J., M. D. Pictography and Shamanistic Rites of the Ojibwa. Pp. 21.

Insect Life. Vol. L No. 1. July, 1888. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology.