Abstract

Science

The article presents information on several books related to science. "The New Book of Golf" is among Longmans, Green & Co.'s announcements. It consists of contributions from various hands and is edited by Horace G. Hutchinson. In the book "Studies of Birdlife in Uganda," authors R.A.L. and V.G.L. van Someren selected twenty-five photographs of wild birds and have beautifully reproduced them as enlarged photogravures 12x16 inches in size. The subjects include woodpeckers, herons, darters, chats, shrikes, and kingfishers. George A. Lindsay has made an interesting summary of annual rainfall and temperature in the United States. Twenty-eight manuscript maps, covering the fourteen years 1891-1904, inclusive, were obtained from the office of the Weather Bureau of Washington. Half of these indicated the precipitation in inches per year, and the other fourteen the mean annual temperature.