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impressions regarding servants, merchants, trade methods, and domestic life are unattractive from a western standpoint. Contrasts of the old samurai (nobility) and the new are more promising. Dr Knox gives credit to Japan for choosing freedom, self-government, progress, and modern science, and forecasts its future world influence as important. A. W. G.

The Proceedings of the American Forest Congress held at Washington, D. C., January 2 to 6, under the auspices of the American Forestry Association, will be issued in book form on March 15. The volume will contain about 400 pages and will be handsomely bound in cloth. It will contain the complete addresses by President Roosevelt, Secretary Wilson, and about fifty other prominent speakers who were on the program, including not only those most prominent in State and national forest work, but the leaders in the railroad, lumbering, mining, grazing, and irrigation industries. The price of the volume is $1.25, prepaid to any address. Published for the American Forestry Association by the H. M. Suter Publishing Company, Washington, D.C.

"The Bahama Islands" will be issued as the first monograph of the Geographical Society of Baltimore early in March. The volume is illustrated with 92 plates, of which 25 are color-illustrations of vegetation, fishes, maps, charts, etc. In June, 1903, the Society equipped and sent out to the Bahama Islands a scientific expedition under the direction of Dr George B. Shattuck, of the Johns Hopkins University. Investigations were carried on in geology, paleontology, tides, earth magnetism, climate, kite-flying in the tropics for atmospheric observations, agriculture, botany, mosquitoes, fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals, medical conditions, social conditions, and the history of the islands, compiled from original records in possession of the government. The book will contain chapters on each of these subjects. The chapter on geology is written by Dr George B. Shattuck, of the Johns Hopkins University, and Dr Benjamin Le Roy Miller, of Bryn Mawr College; that on paleontology by Dr Wm. H. Dall, U. S. National Museum; that on tides by L. P. Shidy, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and so on.