given to the spread of information on the treatment of infancy, so that the foul stain underlying the high rate of infantile mortality (43 per cent.) may be removed by diminishing the death-rate.

If any town in Scotland has acquired a notoriety over the others for the fatality of its epidemic disease, that town is certainly Greenock. A recent epidemic of typhus in that town (population 43,894 in 1861) was so dreadfully fatal, that it carried away no fewer than five of the medical men, who were perhaps even too faithful to the call of duty. The risk incurred by medical practitioners in Greenock from typhus, has, for many years, been very great. Of those who are at present in the town, it is probable that one-half have at one time or another passed through the ordeal of typhus. The fact of the extraordinary mortality just referred to created an excitement in the town, which resulted in a proposal to erect a monument in memory of the medical men who were stricken in the strife in the combat with the disease. A site was got for the proposed monument, and a design was prepared by Sir J. Noel Paton, and the public gratitude towards the memory of those who were faithful in duty seemed there to have completely evaporated. Greenock is now in a somewhat improved sanitary condition; but the authorities of the town may thank Dr. James Wallace, and not themselves, for it. So far as we can learn, he even incurred very serious displeasure from the "powers that be," because he would not rest content with things as they were, and threatened to bring the power of the law to bear on those who should always be ready to enforce it for the public good.

Quarterly List of Publications received for Review.

1. Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea: being Observations in Natural History during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, &c., made in Her Majesty's vessels in 1866 and 1867. By Cuthbert Collingwood, M.A., M.B., Oxon, F.L.S. 450 pp. 8vo. 10 Illustrations. John Murray.

2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical. By William Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Part II., Inorganic Chemistry. Fourth Edition. 900 pp. 8vo.

Longmans & Co.

3. A Treatise on the Metallurgy of Iron, containing Outlines of the History of Iron Manufacture, Methods of Assay, and Analyses of Iron Ores, Processes of Manufacture of Iron and Steel, &c. By H. Bauerman, F.G.S. 46 Engravings on Wood. 400 pp. Post 8vo. Virtue & Co.

4. First Lessons in Astronomy, in Question and Answer. Seventh Edition. 100 pp. 24mo. Jackson, Walford, & Hodder. 5. The Rudiments of Mineralogy: a Concise View of the General Properties of Minerals. By Alexander Ramsay, jun. 338 pp. Fcap. 8vo. Virtue & Co.

6. Reliquiæ Aquitanica. By Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. Part V. H. Baillière.

7. Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes. By Rev. T. W. Webb, M.A., F.R.A.S. Second Edition. 330 pp. Post 8vo.

Longmans & Co.

8. The Great Architect: His Plan of Salvation in the Temple of Dead Stones and Living Stones, God and Man. Crown 8vo.

180 pp.

Longmans & Co.

9. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of other Sciences. By Henry Watts, B.A., F.C.S. Assisted by Eminent Contributors. 5 vols. Demy 8vo. Longmans & Co.

10. Thoughts of a Physician: being a Second

Thoughts.

Series of Evening

John Van Voorst.

11. On the Ventilation of Dwelling Houses, and the Utilization of Waste Heat from Fire-places. By Frederick Edwards, jun.

R. Hardwicke.

12. A Treatise on the Action of Vis Inertia in the Ocean. By William Leighton Jordan, F.R.G.S. 12 Plates. 220 pp. Demy 8vo.

13. General Catalogue of Books. 1130 pp.

Longmans & Co.
Quaritch.

14. Education and Training, considered as a Subject for State Legislation; together with Suggestions for making a Compulsory

Law both Efficient and Acceptable to the People. By a
Physician. 110 pp. Demy 8vo. John Churchill & Sons.

15. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 1867. 200 pp. Demy 8vo.

PAMPHLETS, PERIODICALS, AND PROCEEDINGS
OF SOCIETIES.

Sketch of the Geology of Spitzbergen. By A. E. Nordenskiöld. 2 Maps. 55 pp. 8vo.

Lichenes Spitsbergenses. By Th. M. Fries. 53 pp. 4to.

On the Existence of Rocks containing Organic Substances in the
Fundamental Gneiss of Sweden. By L. J. Igelström, A. E.
Nordenskiöld and F. L. Ekman.
9 pp.

8vo.

Om Trias-och Juraförsteningar fråu Spetsbergen. Af G. Lindström. 3 Plates. 18 pp. 4to.

Förberedande Undersökningar rörande Utförbarheten af en Gradmätning på Spetsbergen. Af N. Dunér och A. E. Nordenskiöld. Map. 16 pp. 4to.

History of Induction: the American Claim to the Induction Coil and its Electrostatic Developments. With Engravings. 124 pp. 8vo. From Washington, U.S.A. Index to Vol. I. to XI. of Observations on the Genus Unio, together with Description of New Species of the Family Unionidæ, and Descriptions of New Species of the Melanidæ, Paludinæ, Helicidæ, &c. By Isaac Lea, LL.D. Imp. 4to.

60 pp. From the Author.

India: a Review of England's Financial Relations therewith. By Robert Knight. 70 pp. 8vo.

Intercolonial Trade, our only Safeguard against Disunion. By R. G. Haliburton, M.A. 40 pp. 8vo.

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List of Publications received for Review.

[July, 1868. Against the Theory of the Retarding Influence of Tidal Action on the Axial Motion of the Earth, and showing the true Source of Tidal Energy. By A. R. Molison. 20 pp. 8vo.

On Sub-aërial Denudation, and on Cliffs and Escarpments of the Chalk and the Lower Tertiary Beds. By William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey. 24 pp. 8vo.

On Geological Time and the probable Date of the Glacial and Upper Miocene Period. By James Croll, of the Geological Survey of Scotland.

Beetroot Sugar: Remarks upon the Advantages derivable from its Growth and Manufacture in the United Kingdom. By Arnold Baruchson. Effingham Wilson.

On Homodromometers. By W. Handsel Griffiths.

On certain Butterfly Scales characteristic of Sex. By T. W. Wonfor.

On the Cost of Cultivation and Returns for Land manured with Latrine Poudrette in the vicinity of Cawnpore during the year 1866-7. Official Report from R. Simson, Esq., Secretary to the Government of the N.W. Provinces.

Christianity and Modern Progress. By Rev. A. Raleigh, D.D. Jackson, Walford, & Hodder.

The Fifth Annual Report of the Coroner for the Central District
of Middlesex. By Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S. 30 pp.
Royal 8vo.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.
Part II. Vol. VIII.

The American Naturalist.

Vargasia. Boletin de la Sociedad de Ciencias Fisicas y Naturales de Caracas. Num. 1-3.