MISCELLANY, 



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and Genius ; " and " The Responsibility of 

 Life Insurance Companies." It is adorned 

 with a portrait of Caleb Cushing, and also 

 contains a biographical sketch of him. 



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Archives of Electrology and Neurology. 

 Edited by George M. Beard, M. D. May, 

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The Germ Theory of Disease. By E. P. 

 Hurd, M. D. 1874. 14 pages. 



The Pathology of Inebriety. By Joseph 

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Agriculture as a Pursuit. Address de- 

 livered before the Agricultural Class of the 

 State University of Georgia, by E. M. Pen- 

 dleton, M. D. 10 pages. Atlanta, 1873. 



General Meeting of the American Social 

 Science Association for 1874. 32 pages. 



On the Yalue of High Powers in the 

 Diagnosis of Blood-stains. By Joseph G. 

 Richardson, M. D. 9 pages. 



Introduction to General Biology. By 

 Thomas C. McGinley. 12mo, 200 pages. 

 Price, 75 cents. Xew York : G. P. Put- 

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New Method of treating Malignant Tu- 

 mors. By George M. Beard, M. D. New- 

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Check-List of Publications of the Smith- 

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Little Stories for Little People. By 

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 26 pages. 



On the Atmosphere as a Yehicle of Sound. 

 By Prof. John Tyndall. 1874. 60 pages. 



On the Dissociation of Certain Com- 

 pounds at Yery Low Temperatures. By 

 A. R. Leeds. 3 pages. 



Rules of Evidence as applicable to the 

 Credibility of History. By William For- 

 syth. London, 1874. 22 pages. Price, 

 threepence. 



Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. 1874. 150 pages. Price, 

 50 cents. 



The Compound Steam-Engine. By John 



Turnbull, Jr. New York : D. Yan Nostrand 

 & Co. 1874. 44 pages. Price, 50 cents. 



Intellectual Culture. By Edward R. 

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The Protoplasm Theory. By Edward 

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Community of Diseases in Horses and 

 other Animals. By W. Lauder Lindsay, 

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Review of Darwin on Expression. By 

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The Yermiculites, their Crystallographic 

 and Chemical Relations to the Micas, etc. 

 By Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. 1873. 32 pages. 



Resources of Tennessee. By J. B. Kil- 

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Evidences of the Antiquity of Man. By 

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 pages. 



MISCELLANY. 



Fritz Miiller on Bee-Habits. — ^A letter 

 to Mr. Darwin from Fritz Miiller, dated 

 Itaguahi, Brazil, April 20th, confirms many 

 of the observations of Mr, Belt's remarkable 

 work, *' The Naturahst in Nicaragua," on 

 the habits of ants. Further, he gives the 

 following account of a contest between the 

 queen-bee of a hive and the workers : A 

 set of forty-seven cells had been filled, eight 

 on a nearly-completed comb, thirty-five on 

 an adjoining one, and four around the first 

 cell of a new comb. When the queen had 

 laid eggs in all the cells of the two older 

 combs, she went several times round this 

 circumference (as she always does, in order 

 to ascertain whether she has not forgotten 

 any cell), and then prepared to retreat into 

 the lower part of the breeding-room. But, 

 as she had overlooked the four cells of the 

 new comb, the workers ran impatiently 

 from this part to the queen, pushing her, in 

 an odd manner, with their heads, as they 

 did also other workers they met with. In 

 consequence, the queen began again to go 

 around on the two older combs ; but, as 

 she did not find any cell wanting an egg, 

 she tried to descend, but everywhere she 

 was pushed back by the workers. This 

 contest lasted for a rather long while, till 



