An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre. By John G. Bourke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 112. Price, $1.
This is a spirited and very interesting account of the expedition, under General Crook, in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. Its purpose is simply to outline some of the difficulties attending the solution of the Indian question in the Southwest, and to make known the methods employed in conducting campaigns against savages in hostility. The author makes it understood that for the better accomplishment of this object he has submitted an unmutilated extract from his journal kept during the whole period involved. The record having been kept in a style free from literary affectations, presents picturesquely the life of the campaign. The illustrations, showing the customs and arts of the Apaches, add much to the value of the book.
John Cabot's Landfall in 1497 and the site of Norumbega. By Eben Norton Horsford. Cambridge: John Wilson & Son. Pp. 39, with Maps.
John Cabot, in 1497, came upon a spot somewhere in New England which he called, after the designation given by the Indians, Norumbega. The French afterward built a fort called Norumbega, on a river of the same name. The site has since been lost, but has usually been assigned to the banks of the Penobscot, although for reasons not judged sufficient. Mr. Horsford believes that he has found both Norumbegas—Cabot's on Salem Neck, and the French fort and town, on Charles River, between Riverside and Waltham, Massachusetts, where he discovered the remains of the fort. If the first determination is correct, Cabot is proved to have preceded Columbus in the discovery of (continental) America.
Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1884. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 903.
This volume contains the usual official reports of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, of the Executive Committee on financial affairs, and of the secretary, giving an account of the operations and condition of the Institution for the year 1884, with the statistics of collections, exchanges, etc. To these are added, in the Appendix, a record of recent progress in the principal departments of science, and special memoirs, original and selected, on various subjects. Among the memoirs are several papers of particular interest in anthropology, among which we may mention Mr. Vreeland's on the antiquities at Pantaleon, Guatemala—very curious sculptured figures, unique in American aboriginal art—and Professor Mason's account of the Guesde collection of antiquities in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
Darling, Charles W. Anthropophagy, historic and pre-historic. Utica, N. Y. Privately printed. Pp. 47.
Shufeldt, P. . W. Science and the State. Pp. 10.
Carter, J. M. G. The Relation of Etiology to Evolution. St. Louis. Pp. 8.
The Journal of Heredity. Edited by Mary Weeks Burnett, M. D. Quarterly. Chicago. Pp. 48. $1 a year.
Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1885. B. D. Halsted, Ames, Iowa, Secretary. Pp. 59.
Hilgard, Eugene W. Report on the Viticultural Work of the College of Agriculture, University of California. 1833-1885. Pp. 210.
Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society. 1885. Whitman Cross, Secretary. Pp. 36.
Mills, T. Wesley, Montreal. The Action of Certain Drugs and Poisons on the Heart of the Fish. Pp. 7.
Curtis, George T., and Richards, F. S. Arguments, in the Supreme Court of the United States, on Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience. Pp. 80.
Curry. S. S., Boston. School of Expression. Second Annual Catalogue. Pp. 12.
Von Taube, G. The Fitting School, Gramercy Park, New York. Pp. 86.
Ryder. John A. On the Development of Viviparous Osseous Fishes and of the Atlantic Salmon. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 35. With Seven Plates.
Cornell University. Proceedings in Memory of Louis Agassiz and in Honor of Hiram Sibley. 1885. Pp. 33.
Foster, Michael, and others. "The Journal of Physiology." Vol. VII, No. 1. Cambridge, England. Pp. 80. With Three Plates. $5 a volume.
Martin, H. N. . and Brooks, W. K. Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. Vol. III. No. 7. Baltimore: N. Murray. Pp. 50. With Plates. 80 cents. $5 a volume.
Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Comparative Size of Metric and Old Units, and Report on Weights and Measures. Pp. 23.
United States Bureau of Statistics Quarterly Report of Imports, etc., to March 31, 1886. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 180.
Some Funny Things said by Children. New York: J. S. Ogilvie & Co. Pp. 62. 10 cents.
"Journal of the American Chemical Society." New York: Monthly. Pp. 24. $5 a year.
Wood. E. A., M. D., Philadelphia. Heredity and Education. Pp. 12.
