the advance that has been made in fifty years in the opportunities for medical instruction. When the university was established, it was the fourth medical school founded west of the Alleghanies. Louisville alone now has as many medical schools, and there are almost as many between the Ohio River and the Pacific Ocean, as the university is years old.
Contributions to the Anatomy of Geococcyx Calfiornianus. By R. W. Shufeldt. Pp. 281, with Four Plates.
Geococcyx is the ground-cuckoo. The author had already published a paper on the genus in 1886. The present memoir, which is based on a specimen obtained in California, may be considered a second installment on the subject. While ornithologists usually place the genera Geococcyx and Coccyzus in the same sub-family, Coccyginæ, the author's examination discloses anatomical characters in his specimen which are essentially different from the corresponding ones as found in the true cuckoos. He therefore proposes for them two sub-families—the Centropodinæ, to contain the ground-cuckoos; and the Cuculinæ for the true cuckoos; these, with the third sub-family, Crotophaginæ, to make up the family Cuculidæ, or North American cuckoos.
List of Astronomical Observatories. By George H. Boehmer. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 16.
The list simply gives the names of the observatories and the places where they are situated, classified as "American" and "Foreign." The arrangement is alphabetical, by the names of the places.
American Jurassic Mammals. By Professor O. C. Marsh. Pp. 20, with Four Plates.
The author, who is in possession of all the known remains of mammals from the Jurassic in this country, had already published several articles descriptive of them; but a large amount of new material has been secured, including representatives of several hundred individuals, and bones of various parts of the skeleton. The fossils, though fragmentary, are usually well preserved; but, as a rule, no two bones of the skeleton are found together. This fact, with the diminutive size of the animals and other circumstances, makes investigation difficult. The first specimens discovered in this country proved to be very near allies of European forms; later ones resembled others described by Owen, but, as the skeletons were more complete, differences appeared. A few American genera have no known representatives in Europe, while some forms found there are unknown here.
Farlow, William G. Vegetable Parasites and Evolution. Salem, Mass.: Salem Press. Pp. 19.
Thomas, Cyrus. Work in Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 15.
Willson, F. N., Princeton, N. J. A Completed Nomenclature for the Principal Roulettes. Pp. 15.
Abbott, Helen C. De S., Philadelphia. Plant Analysis as an Applied Science. Pp 35; Plant Chemistry as illustrated in the Production of Sugar from Sorghum. Pp. 16.
Huston, H. A., Director, Lafayette, Ind. The Indiana Signal Service, July, 1887. Pp. 10.
Hay, O. P., Irvington, Ind. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Amphibia of the State of Indiana. Pp. 10. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Indiana. Pp. 23.
Jordan, David S., and Evermann, Barton W. The Food-Fishes of Indiana. Pp. 16.
Parker, Professor H. W., Grinnell, Ia. Fruit and Fruit Culture as related to Health. Pp. 8.
Shufeldt, R. W., M. D. The Skull in the Apaches. Pp. 10.
Weed, Clarence M. Notes on some Illinois Microgasters. Pp. 8.
Godfrey. John, Louisville, Ky. Medicine and Medicine-Men (Poem). Pp 34.
Investigation of the New York City Asylum for the Insane. Report of the State Board of Charities. Pp. 43.
Colonial and International Congress on Inebriety. London. Report of a Reception given to T. D. Crothers, M. D., London. Pp. 15.
Crothers, T. D., M. D., Hartford, Conn. The Alcoholic Question Medically considered. Pp. 5. Temperance, Parties, Politics. Pp. 3.
Iowa State Board of Health, Monthly Bulletin, August, 1887. Pp. 16.
Bulletin of the New England Meteorological Society. June and July, 1887. Pp. 7 each.
The Workhouse, New York City. Report of State Board of Charities. Pp. 15.
Perkins, J. McC. Letters-Patent for Inventions. Boston: Rand, Avery & Co. Pp. 24. 25 cents.
Georgia, Department of Agriculture. Crop Report for August, 1887.
Riley, C. V. United States Department of Agriculture: Division of Entomology. Reports of Practical Work. Pp. 62. The Icerya, or Fluted Scale, otherwise known as the Cottony Cushion-Scale. Pp. 40. Washington: Government Printing-Office.
McGill University, Montreal. Faculty of Medicine. Annual Calendar, 1887-88. Pp. 91.
Vassar Brothers' Institute, Poughkeepsie, New York. Transactions in the Scientific Section. Pp. 282.
Garden City Dairy Company of Chicago. An Abstract of the Oleomargarine Question. Pp. 30.
