THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD I. SEARS, LL.D.

Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est.

VLL. XXVIII. Nos. FOR DEC., 1873, AND MARCH, 1874.

BODL

NEW YORK:

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,

1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

EDWARD I. SEARS,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

1. First, Second and Third Annual Reports of the State Board

of Health of Massachusetts. Boston. 1870-1-2.

2. First and Second Annual Reports of the Board of Health of

the Health Department of the City of New York.

New York. 1871-2.

II. GLACIERS AND THEIR PHENOMENA

1. Occasional Papers; or, The Theory of Glaciers. By J.

D. FORBES.

2. Études

sur les Glaciers. By L. AGASSIZ. 1840.

3. The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers.

By JOHN TYNDALL, LL.D., F.R.S. London.

1872.

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