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278 Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration: Report of the Third Annual Meeting. Martha D. Adams, Secretary. Pp. 150.

Monroe, W. S. Bibliography of Education. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 202.

New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Bulletin for October, 1897.

Norton, W. H. Artesian Wells of Iowa. Des Moines: Iowa Geological Survey.

Pollock, Mrs. Louise. The Mothers' Council; or, The Kindergarten in the Nursery. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. Pp. 91.

Reprints. Bangs, L. Bolton: Stricture of the Urethra in Children. Pp. 13—Gilbert, G. K.: Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement. Pp. 12.—Howard, William Lee, Baltimore: Psychical Hermaphroditism. Pp. 8; Alcoholic Maniacal Epilepsy. Pp. 4; The Practical Use of Suggestive Therapeutics. Pp. 11; Pederasty versus Prostitution. Pp. 7.—Irwell, Lawrence, Buffalo, N. Y.: Racial Deterioration; the Increase of Suicide. Pp. 12; The Relation between Phthisis and Insanity. Pp 29.—Linton, Edwin: Notes on Larval Cestode Parasites of Fishes. Pp. 36, with Notes.—Mapes, C. C: Notes on Suicide. Pp. 14.—Stuver, E., Rawlins, Wyoming: How does our School System Influence the Health and Development of the Child? Pp. 31.—Thomas, Cyrus: Day Symbols of the Maya Year. Pp. 60, with plates.—Tyler, A. A.: The Nature and Origin of Stipules. Pp. 49, with plates.

Rosenthal, Dr. Joseph. Ueber Röntgenstrahlen (On the Röntgen Rays). Munich: Allgemeine Zeitung. Pp. 8.

Society of Chemical Industry, New York Section. Annual Report and General List of Members. Pp. 36.

Sully, James. Children's Ways. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 193. $1.25.

Thompson, Sylvanus P. Light, Visible and Invisble. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 294. $1.50.

United States Geological Survey. Seventeenth Annual Report. Part III. Mineral Resources of the United States. Pp. 1058.—Monographs: Geology of the Denver Basin in Colorado By S. P. Emmons and others. Pp. 556; The Flora of the Amboy Clays. By J. S. Newberry. Pp. 260; The Glacial Lake Agassiz. By Warren Upham. Pp. 658; The Marquette Iron-bearing District of Michigan. By C. R. Van Hise and W. S. Bayley, with a Chapter on the Republic Trough. By H. L. Smith. Pp. 6081—List of Publications. Pp. 69.

Waldstein, Louis, M. D. The Subconscious Self and its Relation to Education and Health. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 171. $1.25.

Waterloo, Stanley. The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Men. Chicago: Way & Williams. Pp. 351. $1.50.



Unselfish Science.—One of the happiest features of the opening session of the American Association at Detroit was the welcoming address of ex-Senator Thomas W. Palmer. Amid the general scramble for money power which characterizes the present age, he said, "it is gratifying to know that there is an increasing number of men and women who, ignoring the common objects of ambition, have devoted themselves to and are diligent in the unselfish pursuit of truth." These men and women find in the phenomena of Nature history related with accuracy and predictions certain to be verified. "Formerly it was considered that there was a conflict between science and religion. Let us hope that that day has long been passed, and that the more enlightened public recognizes that religion has to do with the spiritual nature of man and science with physical phenomena." The speaker had been seeking a definition of science, and conceived as the most satisfactory one to his mind "the classification of phenomena to the end that principles may be established and declared from which may be deduced rules of action that shall be applicable to particular cases. When did science first originate? Back of the dawn of history, when primeval man, emerging from the shelter of the cave before he had even built him a hut, commenced to apply the force of Nature to his use. . . . How did science originate? By extended observations, experience, and comparison. The first savage who played in the water with his reed as a baby does with a straw, blowing and sucking it, gave the first illustration of hydraulics. The little savage playing in the woods at the ancient game of seesaw would find that the heaviest boy would have to sit nearest the center, and this would give the first suggestion of the lever."

The Beginning of Photography.—A bust of Daguerre, the inventor of the pioneer of all photographic processes, was dedicated at Bry-sur-Marne, where he died, June 27th, in the presence of representatives of the French Government. The idea of fixing by some chemical process the pictures which were formed on the screen of the camera obscura had been entertained, and many persons had tried to discover the art before