Bibliographical Contributions by Harvard Professors for the Year 1887.

There has been a marked activity shown in the various departments of the University during the past year in bringing before the public the results of investigations by the various instructors. These gentlemen have not only attended to their official duties but they have with commendable energy pursued their several special lines of study with benefit to a large class of people. Much valuable work has been done by the members of the Astronomical Observatory. Director Edward C. Pickering has issued a short but extremely important document, viz., "The First Annual Report of the Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra conducted at the Harvard College Observatory." Seth Carlo Chandler has written "The Almucator," a volume of 222 pages. In the Medical School the writings have been unusually voluminous. Nearly every one in the faculty has furnished something, and a few have exceeded their quota. There were no books of any particular pretension published, but the productions appeared as editorials and special articles in different medical periodicals at home and abroad. In the Natural History department little has been published, but the few productions have been of great value. In botanical work three names are to be noticed. A new edition of Professor Gray's "Elements of Botany" was issued; Professor Farlow was made a co-editor of the Annals of Botany, published at Oxford, the first number of which appeared in August; and ten lectures by Prof. Goodale on "Ligneous Plants" were printed. On geological subjects, Prof Shaler has been very prolific. He has written an elementary work on geology, in addition to various papers in Scribner's Monthly, the Forum, Nation and other well-known journals. The third edition of his "Kentucky" has been brought out by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Professor W. M. Davis has contributed valuable articles on meteorology and physical geography in the American Naturalist, Science, and the American Journal of Science. Professor Joseph H. Thayer has done some extremely important work on philology. The Harpers have published for him a Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. This is based on Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, which he has translated, revised and enlarged. This book appeared simultaneously in New York and London. By a vote of the president and fellows, Professor Thayer was authorized to undertake the supervision of the memorial edition of the Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods, by the late E. A. Sophocles. This is a volume of over twelve hundred pages. Professor J. B. Greenough has edited a volume of the Satires and Epistles of Horace; and Professor Bocher has had a number of unsigned reviews upon French and Russian literature in the Nation.