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insects; and Miss Genevieve Jones ;in<l Miss Eliza Scbulze have given 

 to the world a most magnificent illustrated work on the nests and eggs 

 of the birds of Ohio. In England, Miss E. A. Ormerod has published 

 excellent reports on the insects affecting agricnltnral interests; Miss 

 Catherine C Hopley has been active in the study of reptiles, and espec- 

 ially the snakes, and published a very creditable volume on the latter; 

 Miss Agnes Crane has contributed to the history of Brachiopods, Poly- 

 zoans, and other animals ; and Miss Alice Johnston has attacked, with 

 a well-equipped mind and training, some of the most profound problems 

 in morphology. Further, we may name two who have done excellent 

 work in presenting in poj^ular form the results of recent researches, Miss 

 Arabella Buckley, and Mrs. Martin, who, in conjunction with her hus- 

 band, Professor Martin, of the Johns Hopkins University, has published 

 a manual of physiology. 



Distant and formerly isolated Japan has also furnished to the scien- 

 tific corps a notable contingent, who have demonstrated the ability of 

 the Mongolian race to hold their own with the best of the Caucasians. 

 Professor Kakichi Mitsikuri, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, and now professor of zoology in the University of Tokio, and Dr. 

 Isao lijima have been working successfully in fields wherein only the 

 best trained minds, supi)lemeuted by extraordinary skill in anatomy 

 and manipulation generally, can hope for success. Laborers such as 

 these, of either sex or any country, will always be welcome. 



A pleasant and in some ways an important event of the year was the 

 meeting, for the first time in its long history, of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science on American soil or even outside of 

 the British Isles, The session at Montreal in September was as largely 

 attended as could have been expected under the circumstances, and 

 there was a pleasant interchange of courtesies between the association 

 and its younger American sister. Many naturalists long known to 

 each other by reputation, and often through correspondence, met face 

 to face for the first time, and doubtless misapprehensions wTre rectified, 

 better knowledge of each other obtained, mutual respect insured, and 

 personal friendship cemented. 



As in the previous reports, the language of the original from which 

 the abstract is compiled is generally followed as closely as the case 

 will permit. It has, however, been found necessary to limit the ab- 

 stract to the illustration of the i)romiuent idea underlying the original 

 memoir, and pass by the proofs and collateral argumeuis. At the 

 same time it has been often attempted to bring the new discovery into 

 relation with the previous status of information respecting the group 

 under consideration. As to the special discoveries recorded, they have 

 been generally selected (1) on account of the modifications the forms 

 considered force on the system; or (2) for the reason that they are or 

 have been deemed to be of high taxonomic importance; or (3) because 

 the animals j?er se are of general interest; or, finally, (4) because they 



