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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

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Cherrie, G. K. Notes on Costa Rican Birds. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 20.

Columbia Daily Calendar for 1892. Boston: Pope Manufacturing Co.

Cowles, Edward. Neurasthenia and its Mental Symptoms. Pp. 105. Reprint,

Cragin, T. W. New Observations on the Genus Trinacromerum, pp. 4; and On a Leaf-bearing Terrane in the Loup Fork, pp. 4. Reprints.

Crummell. Alexander. Africa and America. Springfield, Mass.: Wiley ct Co. Pp. 466.

Drake, S. A. The Battle of Gettysburg. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Pp. 178. 50 cents.

Dufferin, Lady. My Canadian Journal. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 456. $2. Illustrated.

Findlay, G. Working and Management of an English Railway. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 354. $1.50.

Fiske, S. Holiday Stories. Boston: Benjamin E. Tucker. Pp. 203.

Flogel, E. Carlyle's Moral and Religions Development. New York: M. L. Holbrook & Co. Pp. 140. $1.

Foote, A. E. New Locality for Meteoric Iron: Discovery of Diamonds in the Iron. Pp. 5. Reprint.

France, Anatole. Thais. Chicago: N. C. Smith Publishing Co. Pp. 205.

Furney, E. E. Culture: A Modern Method. New York: L. H. Brown & Co. Pp. 322.

Gilbert. C. H. Apodal Fishes from the Tropical Pacific. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 6.

Gill, T. On the Genus Labrichthys, etc. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 9.

Hall and Bergen. A Text-book of Physics. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Pp. 388. $1.25.

Halstead, B. D. Fungi injurious to Fruits and to Garden Crops. Columbus, O.: Westbote & Co. Pp. 13.

Harper and Burgess. An Inductive Latin Primer. New York: American Book Company. Pp. 424. $1.

Hopkins, A. A. The Scientific American Cyclopædia of Receipts. Notes, Queries. New York: Munn & Co. Pp. 675. $5.

Jones. Alonzo T. The Two Republics of Rome and the United States of America. Battle Creek, Mich.: Review and Herald Publishing Co. Pp. 895. Illustrated.

Kirkpatrick, T. J. The Modern Cook-Book. Springfield, O.: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. Pp. 320.

Lewis T. H. Effigy Mounds of Buffalo Lake, Wisconsin. Pp. 3. Reprint.

Loewy, Benjamin. A Graduated Course of Natural Science. Part II. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 257. 60 cents. Illustrated.

Lyons. Daniel. Christianity or Infallibility. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 284. $1.50.

McCalley, H., and Gibson, A. M. Report on the Coal Measures of the Plateau Regions of Alabama. Pp. 238, with Maps.

Macfarlane, R. Notes on Birds and Eggs collected in Arctic America. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 34.

Marble. A. P. Sanitary Conditions for School-houses. Washington: Bureau of Education. Pp. 121, with 45 Plates.

Mason, W. P. Notes on Cases of Drinking-water and Disease. Pp. 10. Reprint.

Massee, George. The Plant World. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 212. $1. Illustrated.

Maycock, W. P. First Book of Electricity and Magnetism. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 133. 60 cents.

Nuttall's Ornithology. Edited by Montague Chamberlain. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Pp. 473 and 431. $S. Illustrated.

Ochorowicz. J. Mental Suggestion. New York: Humboldt Publishing Co. Pp. 369. $3.

Ostwald, W. Solutions. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 310. $3.

Paquin. P. The Supreme Passions of Man. Battle Creek. Mich.: Little Blue Book Co. Pp. 150.

Paquin, P. The Bacteriological World. Monthly. Pp. 40. $2 a year.

Parker, William W. The Ancient and Modern Physician. Lynchburg: Virginia Medical Society. Pp. 18.

Peters, E. D. Copper-smelting. Second edition. New York: Scientific Publishing Co. Pp. 393. Illustrated.

Physician's Visiting List for 1892. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co.

Poole, Joseph. Practical Telephone Hand-book. New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 288. 75 cents. Illustrated.

Poole, W. H., and Mrs. Cooking for the Diabetic. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 64. $1.

Pringle, Allen. Bibles and Religions out vs. in the Public Schools. Canadian Secular Union. Pp. 24.

Remondino, P. C. History of Circumcision. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis. Pp. 346. 50 cents.—An Instructive Case of Uræmia. Pp. 8. Reprint.

Report of the Commissioner of Pensions for the Year ending June 30, 191. Pp. 84.

Report of the New York State Board of Charities for 1890. Pp. 349.

Shaler, N. 8. The Story of our Continent. Boston: Ginn & Co. Pp. 290. 85 cents.

Shaw, G. B. The Quintessence of Ibsenism. Boston: Benjamin R. Tucker. Pp. 170. 25 cents.

Sloane, T. O'Conor, Electricity Simplified. New York: N. W. Henley & Co. Pp. 158. $1. Illustrated.

Smith. J. B. Noctuidæ of Temperate North America. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 80.

Smith, Oberlin. The Engineer as a Scholar and a Gentleman. Pp. 14. Reprint.

Stejneger, L. On the Snakes of the Genus Lichanpura. Pp. 5.—Description of a New Species of Chameleon. Pp. 2.

Stevenson, J. J. The Chemung and Catskill [Upper Devonian] on the Eastern Side of the Appalachian Basin. Pp. 31. Reprint.

Torrey, Bates. Practical Type-writing. New York: Fowler & Wells. Pp. 156.

Upham, W. Geographic Limits of Species of Plants in the Basin of the Red River of the North. Pp. 32. Reprint.

Watts, C. A. The Agnostic Annual. London; W. Stewart & Co. Pp. 68. 6d..

Whitney, W. D. Introductory French Reader. New York: H. Holt & Co. Pp. 256. 70 cents.

Yeaman, G. H. The Silver Question. Pp. 27.



POPULAR MISCELLANY.

Ancient River Channels.—A remarkable contrast in the physical geography of the eastern and western coasts of the American continent is pointed out by Prof. Joseph Le Conte. The continent is bordered on both sides by a submarine plateau sloping gently seaward till it attains a depth of about one hundred fathoms, from which point the bottom drops off rapidly into deep water. This submarine plateau may be regarded as a sub-