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The Cause of Humanity. By Courtlandt Palmer. Published for the Society of Humanity, 141 Eighth Street, New York. Pp. 77. 25 cents.

An Epitome of the Positive Philosophy and Religion explanatory of the Society of Humanity, with an Important Letter of Harriet Martineau regarding her Religious Convictions. Published by the Society of Humanity, New York. Pp. 50.

Memorandum in regard to Instruction in the Mechanic Arts. By Edward Atkinson. 1879. Pp. 11.

Publications of the Cincinnati Observatory. No. 5. Micrometrical Measurements of 1,054 Double Stars. Cincinnati. 1879. Pp. 180.

Politics and Schools. By Sidney G. Cooke. Syracuse, New York; Davis, Bardeen & Co. 1880. Pp. 23.

Formation of Ground Ice in the Rapids of the Mississippi. By Dr. R. J. Farquharson. From "Proceedings Davenport Academy of Sciences," 1878. Pp. 6.

The Elements of Education. By Charles J. Buel. Syracuse, New York: Davis, Bardeen & Co. 1880. Pp. 25.

First Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Connecticut, for the Year ending November 31, 1878. Hartford, Connecticut. 1879. Pp. 112.

Suggestions on Rural Hygiene. Circular No. 5 of Connecticut State Board of Health. Hartford, Connecticut. Pp. 11. Illustrated.

List of a Collection of Aculeate Hymenoptera made by S. W. Williston in Northwestern Kansas, pp. 20; The American Bembecidæ, pp. 7; and Generic Arrangement of the Bees allied to Melissodes and Authophora, pp. 9. By W. H. Patton. From the "Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey." Washington, 1879.

Antiseptics in Obstetrics and Gynecology. By T, A. Ashby, M. D. Baltimore: Borst & Co., Printers. 1880. Pp. 13.

The Effect of Alum on the Human System when used in Baking-Powders. By Henry A. Mott, Jr., Ph. D. New York. 1880. Pp. 60.

On the Coincidence of the Bright Lines of the Oxygen Spectrum with Bright Lines in the Solar Spectrum, pp. 16; and On Photographing the Spectra of the Stars and Planets, pp. 7. By Henry Draper, M. D. Reprints from "American Journal of Science and Arts," October and December, 1879.

Catalogue of the Pacific Coast Fungi. Published under the Direction of the California Academy of Sciences. H. W. Harkness, M. D., J. P. Moore, A. M. 1880. Pp. 46.

Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. By Professor O. C. Marsh. Part III., with Six Plates. From "American Journal of Science," March, 1880.

Our Public Schools, in their Relation to the Health of Pupils. By J. T. Reeve, M. D. Appleton, Wisconsin. Pp. 27.

Our Schoolhouses. By Professor T. W. Chittenden. Appleton, Wisconsin. Pp. 28.

Annual Reports of the Inspector. Principal, and Physician of the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Blind, Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Printed by C. B. Robinson, Toronto. 1880. Pp. 23.

Report of Work of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Middletown, Connecticut, 1877-'78. By Professor W. O. Atwater, Hartford. 1879. Pp. 174.

Economic Monographs. No. VI. Free Ships. By John Codman. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1880. 25 cents.

Unity Pulpit. Boston. Sermons of M. L. Savage. Vol. I. No. 12. Morals and Knowledge; No. 13. A New Year; No. 14. Rights and Duties in Matters of Opinion; No. 15. Moral Sanctions; No. 16. The Religious Uses of the Imagination; No. 18. Religion, Public Education, and the State; No. 19. The Church and the Theatre; No. 20. Religion in Business. Boston: George H. Ellis. 1880. 6 cents per copy, or $1.50 a year.

Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education. Nos. 1, 2, 3. 4, and 5. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1879.

The Cotton-Worm. By Charles V. Riley, Ph. D. Bulletin No. 3, United States Entomological Commission. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1880. Pp. 144. Illustrated.

Quarterly Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. Treasury Department of the United States. For the Three Months ending September 30, 1879. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1880. Pp. 127.

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Vol. V., Nos. 1, 2, and 3. Washington: Government Printing-office. 1879.

Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States. Parts 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, Vol. II. By Thomas Mehan. Illustrated by Chromolithographs. Boston: L. Prang & Co. 50 cents per part.

Around the World with General Grant. By John Russell Young. Parts 3 to 18 inclusive. New York: Subscription-Book Department of the American News Company. 50 cents per part. Pp. 64 each.

Introduction to the Study of Sign-Language among the North American Indians. By Garrick Mallery. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1880. Pp. 63, with Illustrations.

Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Vol. XI., Part 2. Photometric Observations. By Edward C. Pickering, Director, aided by Arthur Searle and Winslow Upton. University Press, John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1879. Pp. 124.

Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. By P. V. Hayden, United States Geologist. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1878. Pp. 546. With numerous Maps and Engravings.

Half a Hundred Songs for the Schoolroom and Home. By Hattie Sanford Russell. Syracuse, N. Y.: Davis, Bardeen & Co. 1879. Pp. 103.

Four Lectures on Early Child-Culture. By W. N. Hailmann. Milwaukee, Wis.: Carl Doerflinger. 1880. Pp. 74. Paper, 25 cents; flexible cloth, 40 cents.

Eyesight, Good and Bad. By Robert Brudenell Carter, F. R. C. S. Illustrated. London: Macmillan & Co. 1880. Pp. 265. $1.50.

Key to Ghostism. By Rev. Thomas Mitchell. New York: S. R. Wells & Co. 1880. Pp. 249. $1.25.

A Handbook of Hygiene and Sanitary Science. By George Wilson, M. A., M. D. Fourth edition. Enlarged and revised. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. 1880. Pp. 468. $2.75.

The Perception of Space and Matter. By Rev. Johnston Estep Walter. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. 1879. Pp. 451.

Sunshine and Storm in the East. By Mrs. Brassey. With upward of 100 Illustrations. New York: H. Holt & Co. 1880. Pp. 448. $3.50.

A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion. By Dr. George M. Beard. New York: William Wood & Co. 1880. Pp. 198.

A Forbidden Land. Voyages to the Corea. By Ernest Oppert. With 2 Charts and 21 Illustrations. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1880. Pp. 349. $3.