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tide of the Revolution at King's Mountain ; 

 and that after the Revolution the three, act- 

 ing together, frustrated the design of Spain 

 to dismember and weaken the Union by 

 causing the erection of a separate republic 

 in the country between the Alleghanies and 

 the Mississippi. The materials for the his- 

 tory were gathered principally from old 

 settlers of East Tennessee and Western 

 North Carolina. The present volume does 

 not tell the whole of the story, but is to be 

 supplemented by a second, in which events 

 will be brought down to the deaths of 

 Sevier and Robertson. 



Insects affecting the Orange. By H. G. 

 Hubbard. Washington : Government 

 Printing-Office. Pp. 220, with Plates. 



Mr. Hubbard was employed as a special 

 agent of the Entomological Division of the 

 Agricultural Bureau, in Florida, and devoted 

 his time for nearly four years in studying 

 the insects that affect the orange, and in 

 practical experiments to counteract their in- 

 juries. " It is but uttering a deserved com- 

 pliment," Dr. Riley remarks, "to say that 

 the practical results of his labors have been 

 most satisfactory, and mark an important 

 era in the history of orange-growing in the 

 United States." The trees of the citrus fam- 

 ily are particularly subject to the disastrous 

 ravages of various species of scale insects, 

 which not infrequently thwart all effort to 

 raise a grove. It is to these that the pres- 

 ent report is chiefly devoted, and to their 

 control that the greatest efforts were made. 

 The practical object — that of helping the 

 orange-grower in the warfare which must 

 be waged with insect foes — has been held 

 foremost in the preparation of the report ; 

 but scientific information and more com- 

 plete descriptions are given, or referred to, 

 for those who want fuller or technical in- 

 formation. 



Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club. Trans- 

 actions No. 6. Ottawa, Canada. Pp.130, 

 with Plates. 



The club is now incorporated, and re- 

 turned, for 1884-'85, 168 members. Of the 

 year's collections, mention is made of 920 

 plants, 208 species of shells, 198 of birds, 

 48 of fishes, and 1,004 of insects. It is 

 suggested in one of the special reports, 

 recommending the local study of natural 



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history, that " were local societies, instead 

 of wandering aimlessly among the paths of 

 natural science, to devote themselves to this 

 work, . . . there would soon be accumulated 

 a fund of information more perfect and 

 complete than by any other method. The 

 inaugural address of President n. Beau- 

 mont Small points out to the members the 

 fields of investigation which they may find 

 in the several orders of the animal king- 

 dom. It is followed by papers on "The 

 Canadian Otter," by Mr. W. P. Lett ; "The 

 Minerals of the Ottawa District," by Mr. C. 

 W. Willimott ; " Terrestrial Mollusca cf 

 Ottawa," by Mr. F. R. Latchford ; " Wheat, 

 with Especial Reference to that grown in the 

 Ottawa District," by Mr. William Scott; 

 " Our Saw-Flies and Horn-Tails," by Mr. W. 

 II. Harrington ; " Our Trenton Fossils," by 

 Mr. W. R. Billings ; " The Geology and Pa- 

 leontology of Ottawa," by Mr. H. M. Ami ; 

 Reports of the Paleontological, Botanical, 

 Conchological, Entomological, Ornithologic- 

 al, and Zoological Branches ; and an Ab- 

 stract of Meteorological Statistics, by Mr. 

 A. McGill. 



Architos do Museu Nacio.nal do Rio de 

 Janeiro (Archives of the National Mu- 

 seum of Rio de Janeiro). Vol. VI. Rio 

 de Janeiro. Pp. 560, with numerous 

 Plates. Conference faite au Museum 

 National, en Presence de LL. MM. 

 Imperiales (Lecture delivered at the Na- 

 tional Museum, in the Presence of their 

 Imperial Majesties). By Dr. Ladislau 

 Netto. Rio de Janeiro. Pp. 28. 

 The volume of the " Archivos " relates 

 to the ethnology, anthropology, and archae- 

 ology of Brazil. Among the papers it con- 

 tains are " Contributions to the Ethnol- 

 ogy of the Valley of the Amazons," by 

 C. F. Hartt; "The Man of Sambaquis, a 

 Contribution to the Anthropology of Bra- 

 zil," by Dr. J. B. de Lacerda ; " New Cra- 

 neometrical Studies on the Botocudos," by 

 Dr. J. R. Peixotto ; and " Investigations 

 upon Brazilian Archaeology," by Dr. Ladis- 

 lau Netto. These papers are richly illus- 

 trated with colored and monochrome plates, 

 and engravings inserted in the text. Of 

 particular interest is a series of plates of 

 comparative symbolical characters, which 

 show the similarity of the symbols for cor- 

 responding objects in the Marajo (of Bra- 

 zil), Mexican, Chinese, Egyptian, and Indian 



