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stratigraphie dans La classification G^olo^que," was published in the 

 August number of La Feuitte des jeunes natural isl<*. Evidently the 

 discussion has cleared the ground, and though the compromise sug- 

 gested by Mr Dollfus is not likely to be accepted by Mr Jukes-Browne, 



there are signs that an agreement may he arrived at eventually. 



In the Westminster Review for August, Mr J. F. Hewitt has an 

 article on " The Smithsonian Institution : Its history and its later 

 Ethnological publications." 



No. 4. of vol. iii. of the Record* of the Australian Museum was 

 published on -Tune 13, and contained a description of new or little 

 known Palaeozoic Gastropoda from Victoria, Tasmania, and N.S. 

 Wales, referred to the genera Goniostrojrfia, Mourlonia, Helicotoma, 

 Trochoncma, Holopca, and a new genus Gyrodoma allied to Mur- 

 chisonia, by B. Etheridge, jun., who also founds a new species H. 

 australis, for specimens of the Silurian chain-coral, Haly sites, from N.S. 

 "Wales. In the same number W. J. Eainbow describes the larva of 

 the geometrical moth Pseudoterpna percomptaria, and a new species of 

 Araneid, Poltys multituberculatus. C. Hedley describes and figures 

 Lima alata, a new bivalve from Santa Cruz, S. Pacific. A. J. North 

 furnishes a series of ornithological notes. 



Part 2. of vol. ii. of Annotationcs Zoologicae Japoncnscs is to hand, 

 and contains a paper by C. Sasaki on the wild and domestic silk- 

 worms of Japan, in which he comes to the conclusion that the latter 

 are derived from Theophila mandarina. Prof. Ijhna contributes a 

 preliminary synopsis of the genera and and species of the sponge 

 family Eossellidae. Yet another preliminary notice we regret to see 

 is that of new Japanese Echinoids by S. Yoshiwara ; in this ten 

 species are somewhat briefly described without any illustrations. 



Volume iii. of the Journal of the Essex Technical Laboratories fully 

 carries out the promise of earlier volumes, and Mr Houston and his 

 assistants are to be congratulated on the success that has attended their 

 efforts in the teaching of science as applied to agriculture and dairy- 

 farming. The lectures on dairy bacteriology are particularly valuable. 



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The Periodical Cicada, Marlatt : Bull. U.S. Dept. Agriculture. Minnesota 

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