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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

author's first work will lead many readers to look to the promised volume with no little expectation.

"The Outlines of Psychology, with Special Reference to the Theory of Education," by James Sully, now in the press of D. Appleton & Co., is the kind of book that has been long wanted by all who are engaged in the business of teaching and desire to master its principles. In the first place, it is an elaborate treatise on the human mind, of independent merit as representing the latest and best work of all schools of psychological inquiry. But of equal importance, and what will be prized as a new and most desirable feature of a work on mental science, is the educational applications that are made throughout in separate text and type, so that, with the explication of mental phenomena, there comes at once the application to the art of education.

One of the most fascinating popular scientific books ever written is Dr. Charles C. Abbott's "Rambles about Home," soon to be issued by D. Appleton & Co. Readers of the early volumes of "The Popular Science Monthly" know how interesting Dr. Abbott's sketches are, and this book will surely impel many to spend their first leisure hours in the country in watching the animal life about them.

Professor John Trowbridge, of Harvard University, has written a text-book for schools, which D. Appleton & Co. have in preparation. It is entitled "The New Physics," and admirably carries out the principles of the new education, in requiring the pupil to become familiar with the properties of matter and the phenomena of force by performing experiments for himself.

A new series of science text-books, each of which is the work of an able specialist, is being brought out by D. Appleton & Co. The "Physiology," by Roger S. Tracy, M. D., Sanitary Inspector of the New York City Health Department, and the "Chemistry," by Professor F. W. Clarke, Chemist of the U.S. Geological Survey, are now ready. Before September 1st will be issued the "Zoology," by C. F. Holder, and J. B. Holder, M. D., Curator of Zoölogy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York; and the "Geology," a new elementary book, by Professor Joseph Le Conte, of the University of California. Other volumes are to follow soon.


PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Proceedings, etc., of the Chautauqua Society of History and Natural Science. William W Henderson, Secretary. Jamestown, N. Y. Pp. 11.

The Glacial Period in the Chautauqua Lake Region. By Hon. Obed Edsou. Jamestown N Y.: Chautauqua Society of History and Natural Science. Pp. 18.

Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletins No. 7, 8, and 9. Insects injurious to the Apple; Fodder and Fodder Analysis; Insects injurious to Farm and Garden Crops. Pp. 12 each.

Exhibition of Education at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, Preliminary Circular. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 11.

Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Index to Vol, II. Albert E, Leeds, Corresponding Secretary, Hoboken, N. J. Pp. 18.

Dictionary of the Action of Heat upon Certain Metallic Salts. J. W, Baird and Professor A. B. Prescott. New York: Bermingham & Co, Pp. 68.

Reports of Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 102.

Samuel Adams, the Man of the Town-Meeting, By James K. Hosmer, Baltimore: N. Murray Pp. 60. Price, 35 cents.

Physiographic Conditions of Minnesota Agriculture. By Professor C. W. Hall. Minneapolis, Minn, Pp. 15.

Zoölogical Society, Philadelphia. Twelfth Annual Reports. Pp 25. with Plates.

The Bible an Exact Science. By Philip T. West Topeka, Kansas: George W. Crane & Co. Pp. 56.

Alabama Weather Service, April, 1884. By E. H. Mills, Jr., Director, Auburn. Pp. 6. with Charts.

The Exhalation of Ozone by Flowering Plants By J. M. Anders, M. D., Ph. D. Pp. 14.

Remarks on the Bag-Worm, pp. 83; Notes on North American Psyllidæ, pp. 12; Canker-Worms, pp. 82; The Army-Worm, pp. 68. By C. V. Eiley. Ph. D., Washington.

Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs; Parts VII and VIII. Pp. 8 and 12. with Plates. Principal Characters of American Cretaceous Pterodactyls; Part I, Pp. 4, with Plate. A New Order of Extinct Jurassic Reptiles. P. 1. by Professor O. C. Marsh, Yale College, New Haven, Conn.

A New Theology. By the Rev. Philip S. Moxom Pp. 20.

On the Classification of the Sciences. By H. M. Stanley. London. Pp. 10.

Wages and Trade in Manufacturing Industries In America and in Europe. By J. Schoenhof. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 25. 15 cents.

Report of Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, U. S., October-December, 1888. Washington: Government Printing Office, Pp. 160.

Geology of the Lead and Zinc Mining District of Cherokee County, Kansas. By Erasmus Haworth. Oskaloosa, Iowa: Herald Printing Co. Pp. 47.

"American Meteorological Journal," May, 1884, Monthly. M. W, Harrington, Editor. Detroit, Mich.: W. H. Burr & Co, Pp, 89. $8 a year.

Fire-Proof Buildings with Wooden Beams and Girders and Dolman's Dampers. New York: William H. Dolman. Pp. 18.

On a Carboniferous Ammonite from Texas. By Professor Angelo Heilprin, Philadelphia. Pp. 8.