Lives of Alchemisttcal Philosophers, London, 1888. A biographical account of the most noted alchemists. This is very complete. Waite has also collected a list of the principal works of the alchemists, this list filling about thirty pages of fine print. VIII.--GEOLOGY. BIOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY American Geologist. American Museum of Natural History Bulletins, New York. A merican Naturalist. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (18 fr. per annum). A monthly bulletin of the Pasteur Institute, containing mostly technical articles, but also articles of interest to persons interested in problems of immunization and immune sera. Annales des sciences naturelles: zoologie et paléontologie, Paris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including zoology, botany, and geology. Monthly. London. A technical magazine. Of little interest to the general reader. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte. A journal of natural history published bi-monthly at Berlin. Archiv fur Rassen-und--Gesellschaft--Biologie einschliefslich Rassen--und Gesell.-Hygiene. Archives de biologie (quarterly), Liège. Archives des sciences biologiques. St. Petersburg. Five numbers a year. Archives Italiennes de biologie. Turin. Bi-monthly. Biological Bulletin of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. Published monthly by the laboratory. Managing editor, Prank R. Lillie. Scientific and technical--very good. Biologie générale des bactéries, by E. Bodin, professor of bacteriology, University of Rennes, Paris, 1904. Price 2 It. 50. Studies of bacteria in general treated in a semi-popular manner. Some new ideas prepared to explain bacterial action in normal life--very good.--Revue Scientifique, review, August, 1904. Biometrika. A journal for the statistical study of biological problems (quarterly), 305. per annum. Edited, in consultation with Francis Galton, by W. F. R. Weldon, Karl Pearson, and C. B. Davenport. A bulky journal, beautifully illustrated with plates and line cuts. Largely technical, but containing many articles of interest to general readers on laws of inheritance, hereditary influences, etc. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Published irregularly at Rochester. Gcologische und Paloontologische Abhandlungen, Jena. Johns Hopkins University, Memoirs from the Biological ^ Laboratory. L'Échange Revue Linnienne, fondée par le Docteur Jacquet. Directeur, M. Pic. A monthly journal of natural history, devoted largely to entomology--small and technical. Of interest to entomologists only. Les lois naturelles, par Félix le Danteg, charge du cours d'embryologie générale à la Sorbonne, Paris, 1904. Price 6 fr. A study in biology. "The name corresponds exactly with the contents of this admirable work."--Revue Scientifique, review, September, 1904. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. Société Dauphinoise d'Ethnologie et d'Anthropologie. Quarterly bulletin. Grenoble. Société Zoologique de France. Monthly bulletin.