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854  is brought in to give a fair degree of general knowledge concerning the animals or families under study, and the reader is referred for further facts to accessible works which give them. Thus the reader is taught concerning the more common shells, the mythologies and literature concerning them, their microscopic structure, pearls, seaweed, the nautilus, the Medusæ, echinoderms, the Gordonidæ, the work of mollusks, the fate of shells, the use of the dragnet, etc.

Another, a little larger book of the Home-Reading Series, is Uncle Sam's Secrets (75 cents), the purpose of which is defined by the author, Oscar Phelps Austin, "to be to furnish the youth of the land some facts about the affairs of the nation, and to awaken in the mind of the reader an interest in kindred subjects." In this book, too, a thin thread of a story and the conversations of the characters in it are made the vehicle for conveying instruction about different kinds of Government money, the postal service, American geology, the mint, the courts, the navy, bimetallism and monometallism, the history of the currency, the tariff question, the history of parties, and the presidential electoral system. Copious references are made to the books in which further information on those subjects may be found.

Among the great variety of information on the special subject given by the Scovill and Adams Company in their American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1898 (price, 75 cents), we single out for mention the contributed articles conveying instruction as to methods and processes or relating experiments and experiences—the chemical tables, the descriptions of the novelties of the year, the standard formulas and useful recipes, tables for the simplification of emulsion calculations, tables of comparative light values, the list of principal chemicals, photographic schools, list of photographic books published in 1897, the record of photographic patents, lists of American and foreign photographic societies, and a list of hotels having dark rooms for development. Numerous plates and pictures represent photographic work of rare excellence, or illustrate the text.



Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins and Reports. New Hampshire College, Durham: No. 47. Strawberries. By F. W. Rane. Pp. 24.—New Jersey: No. 186. Small Fruits. By Alva T. Jordan. Pp. 32; Bovine Abortion, Milk Fever, and Garget By Julius Nelson. Pp. 24.—New York: No. 130. Popular edition. A New Disease of Sweet Corn. Pp. 5; No. 131. Popular edition. Oat Smut and New Preventives. Pp. 6; No. 132. Popular edition. Milk Fat from Fat-Free Food. Pp. G. All by F. H. Hall.—Ohio: Newspaper Bulletin. No. ISO. The Sugar-Beet Tests of 1808. Pp. 1.—United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau: An Improved Sunshine Recorder. By D. T. Maring. Pp. 15.

American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Economic Relation of Life Insurance to Society and State. Addresses by various persons at the meeting, December 17, 1897, Philadelphia. Pp. 48. 25 cents.

Bailey, L. H., and others. Garden Making. Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 417. SI.

Bulletins, Proceedings, and Reports. American Microscopical Society. Transactions, Twentieth Annual Meeting, August, 1897. Pp. 209.—American Railway Association. Meeting of October, 1897. Pp. 106.— – American Society of Naturalists. Records, Vol. II, Part II. Providence, R. 1. Pp. 47.—Argentina: Anales de la Oficina Meteorologica (Annals of the Meteorological Office), Vol. XI. Walter G. Davis, Director, Buenos Aires. Pp. 502.—Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The Highest Kite Ascensions in 1897. By S. P. Fergusson. Pp. 21.—City of Springfield, Mass.: Report of the Superintendent of Schools (advanced notes) for 1897. Thomas M. Balliet, Superintendent—Linnæan Society of New York. Abstract of Proceedings for 1896-'97; with the Fishes of the Fresh and Brackish Waters in the Vicinity of New York City. By Eugene Smith. Pp. 56.

Clerke, Agnes M., Fowler, A., and Gore, J. Ellard. Astronomy. (The Concise Knowledge Library.) New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 581. $2.

Eimer, Th. On Orthogenesis and the Importance of Natural Selection in Species Formation. Chicago: Open Court Company (Religion of Science Library). Pp. 56. 25 cents.

Frankland, Percy, and Mrs. Percy. Pasteur. New York: The Macmillan Company. (Century Science Series.) Pp. 224. $1.25.

Hittell, Theodore H. History of California. Notice of the third and fourth volumes. Pp. 15.

Jones, Harry C. The Freezing-point, Boiling-point, and Conductivity Methods. Easton, Pa.: The Chemical Publishing Company. Pp. 64. 75 cents.

Kremers, Edward, Editor. Pharmaceutical Archives. Vol. I, No. 1, January, 1898. Monthly. Office of the Pharmaceutical Review. Milwaukee, Wis. Pp. 24, with plates. $1 a year.

Ladd, Prof. George Trumbull. Outlines of Descriptive Psychology. A Text-Book of Mental Science for Colleges and Normal Schools. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 428. $1.50.

Merriam, Florence A. Birds of Village and Field. A Bird Book for Beginners. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 400. $2.

Noyes, Arthur A., and Mulliken, Samuel P. LaboraroryLaboratory [sic] Experiments on the Class Reactions and Identification of Organic Substances. Easton,