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cott, '58, president; S. H. Durgin, m '64; S. W. Abbott, m '62, vice-presidents; Edwin Farnham, '66, secretary; J. B. Field, '80, treasurer; J. E. Clark, m '82, J. A. Gage, '79, W. P. Bowers, m '79, W. Y. Fox, m '88, and W. H. Gove, '76, members of the executive committee.

At the annual meeting of the American Physiological Society at Philadelphia, Dec. 26-28, papers were read by W. T. Porter and G. W. Fitz, m '91.

William A. Davis, of Brooklyn, has modeled a portrait of the late Professor J. P. Cooke, '49, which has been placed in the University Museum at Cambridge.

The Council of the Royal Historical Society of England have nominated for election, at the next general meeting of the society, as corresponding members, Professors Ashley and Gross. Information Wanted for Harvard University. Address Francis H. Brown, M. D., 4 Exchange Place, Boston. The dates of death of the following graduates of the Harvard Medical School: 1791. James Otis Prentiss ; 1793. John Baptiste Menard; 1798. Jonathan White; 1819. William Vance; 1822. Freedom Seaver; 1826. George Mills Smith; 1834. Edward Thomas Tremaine; 1846. William Barton Nutter; 1847. Samuel Smith Drury; 1847. Benjamin Franklin Gilman; 1848. Stephen Fuller Elliot; 1848. Thomas Scott Rodman; 1849. George Dorr; 1849. Edward Kirby; 1849. Ruford Allen Prewitt; 1850. William Laighton; 1852. Henry Milton Cobb; 1852. John Whipple; 1853. Pitkin Boltwood Rice; 1854. Horatio Nelson Ballard; 1857. James David Hoyl; 1858. Thomas Hill Gibby; 1859. Jonathan Hugh Jamison; 1861. John Davis Jones; 1861. Joseph Crandall

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Skinner; 1862. James Duncan Ross 1863. William Dickson Knapp; 1863. John Chisholm McLellan ; 1864. James McGregor Campbell; 1865. John Thomas Cameron; 1865. Charles William Frederick Hamilton; 1865. Andrew McLaren; 1866. Milledge Oakes; 1867. Henry Thomas Corbett; 1867. John Bryant Fisher; 1867. Thomas Shreve Jacobs; 1867. Thomas Charles Leaver ; 1867. Charles Worthy Perkins; 1867. Raphael Provencher; 1868. Edward True McRobert; 1868. David Henry Norton; 1869. Duncan Campbell; 1869. Abner Hodgson; 1869. Francis Gilbert Johnson; 1869. William Edwin Vail; 1870. George Hill Smith; 1873. Francis Eugene Eaton; 1877. Benedict Fenwick Gorman.

The Harvard Coöperative Society.— The following figures show the gain of the Society during the past two years:

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LITERARY NOTES.

To avoid misunderstanding, the Editor begs to state that copies of books by or about Harvard men should be sent to the Magazine if a review

same firm publish two unedited essays by R. W. Emerson, '21, with an introduction by Dr. E. E. Hale, '39. Julian Hawthorne, ['66], won the

is desired. In no other way can a complete reg- $10,000 prize offered by the New

ister of Harvard publications be kept. Writers of articles in prominent periodicals are also requested to send to the Editor copies, or at least the titles, of their contributions. Except in rare instances, space will not permit mention of contributions to the daily and weekly press.

Prof. W. F. Ganong, '87, has reprinted from Bulletin No. 13 of the New Brunswick Natural History Society the second part of "An Outline of Phytobiology."

"Historical and Other Papers, with Seven of his Sermons," by the late Rev. Grindall Reynolds, t '47, has been printed. Copies ($2 each) may be obtained from Mrs. Alice Reynolds Keyes, Concord; at the American Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon St., Boston, and at the Old Corner Bookstore, Boston.

The Law School Association have issued in a handsome volume the Report of their ninth annual meeting. It includes Sir Frederick Pollock's oration, the speeches at the dinner, a photogravure of Vinton's portrait of Dean Langdell, and the constitution of the Association with a list of its officers.

Dr. Wm. H. Furness, '20, the Senior Alumnus, has printed for private distribution a volume containing his address on the Gospels, delivered at the Unitarian Conference in Washington, D. C., last October, and six sermons, viz Self-Abnegation, The Resurrection of Jesus, God is Love, A Glad Religion, Jesus and Christianity, Our Troubles, God's Angels.

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York Herald for the best serial novel. J. E. A. Smith, the local historian of Pittsfield, has printed "The Poet Among the Hills: Oliver Wendell Holmes in Berkshire, his Berkshire Poems, some of them now first published, with historic and descriptive Incidents concerning the Poems, the Poet, and his literary Neighbors." The book is illustrated by portraits and plates.

Prof. Jas. Geddes, '80, has printed his address on "The College of To-day in its Relation to the Past and to the Future," delivered at the celebration of the quarter centennial of Boston University, Oct. 19, 1895.

Sir Frederick Pollock, h '95, has recently issued, in collaboration with the Rev. Wm. Maitland, "The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I." (Little, Brown & Co., Boston.)

Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr., ['82], has translated the letter from Capt. Cuellar to Philip II dated Oct. 4, 1589, which is printed as the first of a series of "Spanish Armada Tracts,” by G. H. Richmond & Co., New York.

W. M. Griswold, '75, has completed a "Descriptive List of Books for the Young," which is published by him at 25 Craigie St., Cambridge.

Dr. T. H. Shastid, '93, has published a pamphlet entitled "A New Operation for Chronic Catarrhal and Chronic Suppurative Deafness."

J. H. Sears, '89, has published "The Governments of Today," an outline for the use of newspaper readers. (Meadville, Chautauquan - Century Press.)

Robert S. Rantoul, '53, has printed "A Memoir of Edmund B. Willson, t '43, Fifth President of the Essex Institute." (Essex Institute: Salem.)

The Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund have printed in pamphlet form the tribute to the late R. C. Winthrop, '28, which was presented by a committee consisting of Chief Justice M. W. Fuller, L. S., '55, W. A. Courtenay, and Jos. H. Choate, '52.

"The Midsummer of Italian Art," containing an examination of the works of Fra Angelico, Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Correggio, by Frank Preston Stearns, '67, was issued in November, by Putnam, New York.

Benjamin C. Clark, '53, has reprinted "The Cordage Industry," originally contributed by him to "The Memorial Centennial of 100 years of American Commerce."

J. T. Hassam, '63, has reprinted from the Proceedings of the Mass. Historical Society an article on two manuscripts which belonged to the Rev. Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College.

From his contributions to the 10th volume of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Clarence B. Moore, '73, has made a volume of importance to American archaeologists. He describes "Certain River Mounds of Duval County, Florida," "Two Sand Mounds on Murphy Island," and "Certain Sand Mounds of the Ocklawaha River." The work is profusely illustrated.

In the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January, Dr. S. A. Green, '51, described "Inscribed Powderhorns."

R. S. Hale, '91, has reprinted from the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies his paper on "Ap

proximate Analysis of the Use of Coal in an Edison Electric Station of the Type Standard, about 1890."

In the American Journal of Numismatics for October, Dr. H. R. Storer, '50, concluded his list of " Medals and Tokens of Rhode Island" and continued his catalogue of " Medals, Jetons, and Tokens Illustrative of the Science of Medicine."

Dr. E. J. Young, '48, has printed in pamphlet his tribute to the late O. B. Frothingham, '43, delivered at the December meeting of the Mass. Historical Society.

N. H. Dole '74, has translated half a dozen short tales from the Italian of Giovanni Verga, and published them in a volume entitled, "Under the Shadow of Etna." (Jos. Knight Co.)

Dr. A. W. Roberts, '81, has edited "Selected Lives from Cornelius Nepos." (Ginn: Boston.)

To a new international magazine, Cosmopolis, Henry Norman, '81, contributes the English political review.

The following papers have been reprinted from the Astrophysical Journal: "On the Forms of the Disks of Jupiter's Satellites," by S. S. Bailey; "Seven New Variable Stars," by M. Fleming, "A New Form of Stellar Photometer," by Prof. E. C. Pickering, s '65.

Dr. C. M. Woodward, '60, has reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Educational Association his report on "The Relation of Technical to Liberal Education."

To the Northwestern Law Review for December, E. A. Harriman, '88, contributed a paper on "The Nature of Contractual Obligation."

Horatio Hale, '37, has reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (vol. I, section ii, second series), "An Iroquois Condol

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E. A. Angell, '73, has issued in pamphlet "The Taxation of Railways in Ohio." He also, as chairman of a special committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, drew up a report on "Taxation," which has been printed for distribution.

Dr. H. R. Storer, '50, has had privately printed his paper on "The Medals and Tokens of Rhode Island," read before the Newport, R. I., Historical Society.

In celebration of its quarter-century the New England Society of Orange, N. J., has printed the literary exercises delivered last spring, viz. : "The Birth of the Society," by W. P. Garrison, '61; "Puritan Politics," by Prof. A. B. Hart, '80; "New England," poem, by F. L. Knowles, '96.

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A. von W. Leslie, '94, has reprinted from Anglia (Sept., 1895) his monograph, "Was Swift Married to Stella?" After an exhaustive examination of the evidence, he concludes that there was no marriage.

Dr. Thomas Fillebrown, d '69, has reprinted from Dental Cosmos for December a description of "A New Apparatus for continuing Anesthesia while operating on or in the Mouth." The Messrs. Scribner have recently issued a "Cyclopedia of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant," by W. P. P. Longfellow, '55, and "Domesticated Animals; Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization," by Prof. N. S. Shaler,

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The Rev. Francis Tiffany, '47, has

collected in a book entitled "This Goodly Frame, the Earth," his experiences on a tour around the world last year.

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MAGAZINE ARTICLES BY HARVARD MEN.

American Historical Review. (Jan.) "Ferrand Martinez and the Massacres of

1391," H. C. Lea, h '90.

Annals of the American Academy. (Jan.) "The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine," L. M. Keasbey, '88; "History of a Municipal Charter in Kentucky," E. J. McDermott, l '76.

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. (Jan.) "The Fifth International Prison Congress," S. J. Barrows, t '75.

Atlantic Monthly. (Dec.) "The Starving Time in Old Virginia," John Fiske, '63.-(Feb.) "Unclaimed Estates," H. S. Everett, '55; "Pirate Gold," F. J. Stim

son, '76.

Century Magazine. (Jan.) "To A. N. W. Jackson," by G. E. Woodberry, '77. -(Feb.) "Certain Worthies and Dames of Old Maryland," J. W. Palmer, '72; "Nelson at Cape St. Vincent," A. T. Mahan, h '95.

Charities Review. (Nov.) “Unitarianism and Philanthropy," F. G. Peabody, '69. (Dec.) "Children of the State in Massachusetts," F. B. Sanborn, '55.

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Chautauquan. (Dec.) "Intellectual Life of the American People," C. F. Thwing, '76.

Education. (Jan.) "B. A. and B. S.," F. S. Thomas, m '74.

Educational Review. (Dec.) "College Entrance Requirements in History," A. B. Hart, '80.

Forum. (Dec.) "The Nature of Liberty," W. D. Howells, h '67; "Thomas B. Reed and the Fifty-first Congress," Theodore Roosevelt, '80; "The Ethics of Party Loyalty," G. W. Green, '76; "Thomas Carlyle: His Work and Influence," W. R. Thayer, '81;"The Pilgrim Principle and the Pilgrim Heritage," W. De W. Civilization in America," C. E. Norton, Hyde, '79. (Feb.) "Some Aspects of '46; "Our Monetary Programme," J. L. Laughlin, '73.

Green Bag. (Dec.) "Alexander Hamilton, the Lawyer," A. O. Hall, L. S., '45. - (Jan.) "The New Supreme Court Justice, Rufus W. Peckham," A. O. Hall,

L. S., '45.

Harper's Magazine. (Jan.) "The United States Naval Academy," T. R. Lounsbury, h '93. — (Feb.) "St. Clair's Defeat," Theodore Roosevelt, '80.

Lend a Hand. (Nov.) "The Winter Campaign," "Charities That Have Succeeded," E. E. Hale, '39.

North American Review. (Nov.) "Quick Transit between New York and London," Austin Corbin, '49; "What Becomes of College Women?" C. F. Thwing, '76.(Dec.) "The Last Gift of the Century,' N. S. Shaler, s '62; "Our Benefits from the Nicaragua Canal," A. S. White, '77. Poet Lore. (Jan.) "Accretions to the Troy Myth after Homer," W. C. Lawton,

'73.

Quarterly Journal of Economics. (Oct.) "The Employer's Place in Distribution," F. W. Taussig, '79.

Scribner's Magazine. (Jan.) "Waterways from the Ocean to the Lakes," T. C. Clarke, '48.

SHORT REVIEWS.

Mars. By Percival Lowell, '76. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.) The brilliancy of Mars during two or three recent favorable oppositions has been the cause for much public interest in the planet, and the demand for information has made evident the fact that our language has had heretofore no complete and trustworthy setting forth of our knowledge of our neighbor. This lack has been supplied in a most admirable way by Mr. Percival Lowell, who has assembled within the first thirty pages of his volume and at divers other points the sum of human information about the planet. Upon this solid foundation he has reared a superstructure of original deductions based on the work of his observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. The purpose of the volume is the presentation of VOL. IV. - NO. 15.

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what evidence there may be towards a proof that Mars supports life, and with this end in view the author proceeds in what strikes one as logical fashion, with a foundation of solid, well-established fact. The lines of the argument develop first that there is an atmosphere; next that water exists on Mars; next, that there are changes in the tinting of the surface, and that these are seasonal, a statement that depends entirely on the observations made at Flagstaff; and further that the canals, by their arrangement, straightness, and other attributes, and by their relation to the seasonal changes, indicate the activity of living intelligence and that Mars seems to be inhabited. This whole line of reasoning is presented in that pleasant and entertaining style which is so characteristic of Mr. Lowell's writings, and the points are urged with such enthusiasm as to leave no one in doubt for a moment about his thorough belief in all that is set forth. From the beginning to the end the story is most interesting, and at times entertaining, for the author lends his bright humor to enliven his narrative. But the reader may be tempted to inquire, "What may be the scientific status of the book?" Here, alas, science must withhold its verdict. The deductions which Mr. Lowell has made may be correct, every one of them, but so far as a scientific consideration is concerned, the volume does not furnish that evidence which an astronomer must have as the basis for an opinion. The whole subject, so far as the portion dependent upon the Flagstaff observations is concerned, is of the most delicate nature; it involves observations at almost the limit of man's vision; it depends upon measurements of incredible minuteness, even for as

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