some of considerable general interest. We specially notice the two presidential addresses. The first, by retiring President Dr. A. H. Thompson, is concerning the "Origin and History of the Academy," and gives a rapid review of the growth of scientific work in Kansas, and of the transactions of the fifteen previous annual meetings of the society. The other address, by Dr. R. J. Brown, is a discussion of the question, "Is a Geological Survey of the State a Necessity?" and presents summaries of the benefits that have accrued from their surveys in other States in which such works have been prosecuted.
The Hoosier Naturalist. Vol. I, No. 1, August, 1885. A. C. Jones and R. B. Trouslot, Editors and Publishers, Valparaiso, Ind. (Monthly.) Pp. 8. Price, 60 cents a year.
The editors claim to have in Valparaiso a rare combination of facilities to encourage the publication of a scientific journal, including a large normal school, with classes in zoölogy, geology, and botany, the Museum of the American Institute, of which one of them is custodian; and surroundings of excellent collecting-grounds. Such enterprises as this are evidence of a living love for science, and help to stimulate and extend it.
Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics. By Professor Charles K. Wead. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 158.
The author of this paper was commissioned by the Commissioner of Education to draw up a set of inquiries respecting the teaching of physics, send them to teachers, and collate and discuss the answers which should be received. The questions related to various points respecting the expediency of the teaching, the prominence and extent that should be given to it, and the method in which it should be done. Answers were received from seventy-two teachers in normal and secondary schools and colleges and universities, and other persons experienced in educational work, and are here given and reviewed. To these is added information from other countries. This is followed by an attempt to discover that consistent scheme of physics study which is favored by the majority of the contributors.
Wintering Bees. By A. J. Gook. Agricultural College of Michigan. Pp. 6.
Impounding the Nile Floods. London: The Bedford Press. Pp. 6, with Map.
Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania. Issued by the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. Pp. 128. With Map.
Something about Natural Gas. By George U. Thurston. Pittsburg. Pp. 32.
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Lecture Programme. 1885-'86.
Insanity of the Past, pp. 8; Report on Cerebro-Spinal Pathology, pp. 18; Forty Years of Cerebro-Spinal Pathology, pp. 16. All by Dr. Daniel Clark. Toronto, Ont.
American Economic Association. Constitution, etc. Richard T. Ely, Secretary, Baltimore, Md. Pp. 16.
The Climatic Treatment of Phthisis. By Harold Williams, M. D. Pp. 19.
Diana. New York: Burnz & Co. Pp. 56.
Sensory Aphasia. By Morton Prince, M. D. Boston. Pp. 14.
Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore: N. Murray. Pp. 24. Price, 30 cents a number. $8 a volume.
Moral and Material Progress contrasted. By Lester F. Ward. Washington: Judd & Detweiler. Pp. 16.
Syllabus of the Instruction in Biology. By Delos Fail. Albion, Mich. Pp. 24.
United States Government Publications. Monthly Catalogues, Nos. 7 and 8. Washington: J. H. Hickox. Pp. 20 each.
Juarez and Cesar Cantú. Refutation of Charges preferred by the Italian Historian. Official edition. Mexico: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 55.
Remarkables protubérances solaires (Remarkable Solar Protuberances), pp. 3; La planète Saturne en 1885 (The Planet Saturn In 1885), pp. 8; Observation dune essaim de corpuscules noirs passant devant le soleil (Observation of a Swarm of Black Corpuscles passing in Front of the Sun), pp. 8; Murs énigmatiques observés à la surface de la lune (Enigmatical Walls observed on the Surface of the Moon), pp. 4; Sur la structure intime de l'enveloppe solaire( On the Intimate Structure of the Solar Envelope), pp. 29. With Plates. All by E. L. Trouvelot. Paris.
Distribution of the Reserve Material of Plants in Relation to Disease. By D. P. Penhallow. Pp. 10.
The Preparatory Schools and the Modern Language Equivalent for the Greek. By Charles E. Fay, Tufts College. Pp. 10.
Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner to Benjamin Apthorp Gould. Lynn, Mass.: Thomas P. Nichols. Pp. 40.
The Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California. By David P. Todd. Pp 24.
Extensions of Certain Theorems of Clifford and of Cayley in the Geometry of N Dimensions. By E. H. Moore, Jr. Pp. 8.
Main Drainage and Water Supply of Chicago. Report of Committee of Citizens' Association. J. C. Ambler, Secretary. Pp. 32.
The Relations between the Theromorphous Reptiles and the Monotreme Mammalia, pp. 12; and Various Geological and Paleontological Notes. By E. D. Cope. Philadelphia.
Aim and Method of the Rōmaji Kai, or Roman Alphabet Association of Japan. Tokio: Imperial Printing-office. Pp. 28.
Pounding and Polishing Rice in England and Germany, pp. 10; The Licorice-Plant, pp. 20. (United States Consular Reports.) Washington: Government Printing-Office.
Report on Sanitary Improvement Bonds of
