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be taken to represent my husband's personal 

 observations as to the extent and limits of the 

 several glaciated areas, as it bears little or 

 no resemblance to the records which he has 

 left of them " ; and she proceeds to point out 

 some of the points of difference, particularly 

 in Ireland. 



The map does not profess to be that of 

 Prof. Lewis, but represents the work as com- 

 pleted in England by Prof. Kendall. Very 

 likely it is imperfect in Ireland, but it gives 

 the general facts as well as could be done 

 before Prof. Lewis's notes are published. 



We are pleased to learn from Mrs. 

 Lewis's letter that the manuscript of her 

 husband's book has gone to press. — Editor. 



HABITS OF POGONIA OPHIOGLOSSOIDES. 



Editor Popular Science MontMy : 



Sir : In reading the very interesting ar- 

 ticle in your November number, Color in 

 Flowering Plants, I am at a loss to under- 

 stand the author's description of the orchid 

 Pogonia ophioglossoides. 



She says, " There is no other pogonia . . . 

 which has its leaves whorled on the stem," 

 and speaks of its " greatly elongated sepals 

 and three-parted corolla — all green" etc. She 

 also describes it as growing in the same 

 places as the " much more abundant Indian 

 cucumber," and as resembling it much more 

 closely than allied orchids. It grows quite 

 abundaaitly in Nantucket, but I have never 

 found it there with whorled leaves, green 

 flower, or growing with the medeola. 



On the contrary, its single leaf, growing 

 midway on the slender stem, first attracted 

 my attention as distinguishing it from the 

 Calopogon, of which, at first glance, I took 

 it to be a faded specimen. I have frequently 

 found them growing together, and have mis- 

 taken one for the other. 



Gray's Manual describes exactly the spe- 

 cies I have found as Pogonia ophioglossoides, 

 so I can not think it a " form " peculiar to 

 Nantucket. I am, therefore, considerably 

 puzzled to account for the discrepancies, and 

 should be glad to be enlightened. 



Mabel P. Robinson. 

 El Mora, N. J., October 28, 1892. 



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THE EVERLASTING GHOST. 



THE believers in ghosts are just now 

 jubilant over some anticipated rev- 

 elations to be made through the me- 

 dium of photography. In a recent 

 number of the Fortnightly Review the 

 Rev. H. A. Haweis has a long article 

 under the title of Ghosts and their 

 Photos. He introduces the subject by 

 a historical survey, intended to show 

 the inextinguishable character of the 

 ghost. Ancient history certainly does 

 furnish a vast amount of grist for the 

 spiritualist mill, and the Rev. Mr. Haweis 

 lays hold of it all. The angels that ap- 

 peared to Jacob were real ghosts ; the 

 prophets were mediums; Elijah was in 

 very truth ' ; levitated " ; so also was 

 Philip the evangelist ; so also was Fran- 

 cis of Assisi ; the " tongues " at Corinth 

 and the tongues among the Irvingites 

 bespoke real possession, not mere disor- 

 der of the brain ; the saints did actually 

 come out of their graves at Jerusalem and 

 still more or less keep up the practice. 



All these things, and a thousand more, 

 added to "the raps, the lights, and the 

 materializations" of the modern seance, 

 compose, in the opinion of the reverend 

 gentleman, such a mass of evidence in 

 favor of ghost activity in connection 

 with human affairs that to doubt any 

 longer becomes a little ridiculous. We 

 fear the stigma is one which must con- 

 tinue to attach to ourselves for a little 

 while longer, at any rate. Our obsti- 

 nate incredulity is not shaken even by 

 the statement, given on the authority of 

 the Psychological Society, that out of 

 seven thousand sane persons one woman 

 in twelve and one man in ten had had 

 "experiences of an- occult character." 

 We are simply moved to congratulate 

 the gentler sex on their appreciably 

 more restricted conversance with the 

 works of darkness — for we suppose the 

 term can not be altogether inapplicable 

 to " experiences of an occult character." 

 It may curdle the blood of some to 

 read that "you can visit no part of 



