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POPULAR MISCELLANY.
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Address in Medical Jurisprudence. Psychology, State Medicine, etc. By James F. Hibberd, M.D. Philadelphia. 1880. Pp. 17.

On the Action of Carbolic Acid upon Ciliated Cells and White-Blood Cells. By T. Mitchell Prudden, M.D. January, 1881. Pp. 17.

How to Live in Winter. By Amelia Lewis. New York: Food and Health Publishing Office. 1881. Pp. 84. 25 cents.

"The Chrysanthemum: A Monthly Magazine for Japan and the Far East." Yokohama: Kelley & Co. Vol. I, No. 1. January, 1881. Pp. 36. 25 cents each, or $2 a year.

"Quaker City Gazette: A Weekly Periodical devoted to Science, Literature, and Art." E. Ellsworth Wensley, Editor. Philadelphia: Quaker City Publishing Co. Vol. L No. 1. January, 1881. Pp. 16. $2 a year.

"The Illustrated Cosmos." Issued Monthly. Everett W. Fish, General Editor. Chicago. Vol. I, No. 1. January, 1881. Pp. 16. 15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year.

Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. By Professor O. C. Marsh. Part IV. Spinal Cord, Pelvis, and Limbs of Stegosaurus, with Three Plates. February, 1881.

On the Microscopic Crystals contained in Plants By W. K. Higby. Pp. 18.

Annual Report of the California State Mineralogist, from June to December, 1880. Sacramento. 1880. Pp. 43.

"The Floral World: A Monthly Journal devoted to Floriculture, Horticulture, etc." D. R. Woods, Editor. New Brighton, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1, No. 1. January, 1831. Pp. 21. $1 a year.

"The Religious Evolutionist: A Monthly Magazine devoted to a Scientific and Practical Religion." S. W. Davis, Editor. Topeka, Kansas. Vol. I, No. 1. January, 1881 Pp. 28. $1.00 a year.

Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education. No. 4, Rural School Architecture. Illustrated. No. 5, English Rural Schools. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1880.

The Geology of Central and Western Minnesota: A Preliminary Report. By Warren Upham. St. Paul: The Pioneer Press Co. 1880. Pp. 58.

Historical Sketch of the Erie Natural History Society. Erie, Pennsylvania. 1880. Pp. 28.

The Succession of Glacial Deposits in New England. By Warren Upham. Salem, Massachusetts. 1830. Pp. 14.

Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History at Normal. Bulletin No. 3. Peoria. November, 1880. Pp. 160.

Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. By Edward C. Pickering. Cambridge: University Press. 1881. Pp. 17.

Adam Smith. 1723-1790. By J. A. Farrar. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1881. Pp. 201. $1.25.

The Actor and his Art. By C. Coqnelin. Translated from the French by Abbey Lingdon Alger. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1881. Pp. 63.

Sanskrit and its Kindred Literatures: Studies in Comparative Mythology. By Laura Elizabeth Poor. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1880. Pp. 463. $2.

Guide to the Study of Political Economy.. By Dr. Luigi Cossa. Translated from the Italian, with a Preface, by W. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S. London: Macmillan & Co. 1880. Pp. 237. $1.25.

The Cause of Color among Races, and the Evolution of Physical Beauty. By William Sharpe, M.D. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1881. Pp. 36. 75 cents.

Natural Theology. By John Bascom. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1880. Pp. 306. $1.50.

American Sanitary Engineering. By Edward S. Philbrick. New York: "The Sanitary Engineer." 1881. Pp. 129.

The Bacteria. By Dr. Antoine Magin. Translated by George M. Sternberg, M.D. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1880. Pp. 227. $2.50.

On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement. By William A. Hammond, M.D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sous. 1881. Pp. 286. $1.75.

Fever: A Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology. By H. C. Wood, M.D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1880. Pp. 258.

Electric Lighting by Incandescence. By William E. Sawyer. New York: D. Van Nostrand & Co. 1881. Pp. 189.


POPULAR MISCELLANY.

Bone-Caves in Pennsylvania.—Professor Leidy in company with Dr. T. C Porter, of Easton, Pennsylvania, visited, in August last, Hartman's Cave, near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on the invitation of Mr. T. D. Paret, of that place, and examined a number of interesting animal and other remains which were found there. The cave is partly filled with a bed of clay ten feet deep, on which rests a thin layer of stalagmite, and on this about a foot of black, friable earth mingled with animal and vegetable remains. The cave appears to have been too small to be inhabited by the larger carnivora, and no large entire bones of them were found, but about a half-bushel of fragments and splinters of limb-bones of smaller and large animals have been collected, many of which exhibit marks of having been gnawed, whether by rodents or small carnivora Professor Leidy does not assume to decide. Some of the splinters are derived from such large and strong bones that it is questionable whether even the largest carnivora could have produced them, and are presumed to be remnants of human feasts, in which the bones were crushed to obtain the marrow. A few of the bones are somewhat charred, among them a small fragment of a bison's jaw with a molar tooth. Most of the bones are of species still living, but some of them, as jaws of the reindeer, bison, and wood-rat, are of animals no longer belonging to the fauna of the State; and a few, as the teeth of the Casteroides Ohioensis,