64 S. Mis. 53. 



the supervision of the able gentlemen to whom these trusts have been 

 committed. 



Antiquities of Wisconsin. — Mr. J. A. Lapham, of Milwaukie, has com- 



Eleted the elaborate survey of the antiquities of Wisconsin, upon which 

 e has been so long engaged, under the patronage of the American 

 Antiquarian Society at Worcester. The manuscript record of his ope- 

 rations is illustrated by a large number of quarto illustrations and many 

 wood-cut figures — the whole constituting the most important contribu- 

 tion to American ethnology made, since the publication of the work by 

 Messrs. 8quicr and Davis, on the ancient monuments of the Mississippi 

 valley. 



Dr. Adolphus L. Heermann, of Philadelphia, returned last spring from 

 several years' residence in California. During his stay he devoted 

 especial attention to the subject of ornithology, and with such success 

 that his collections far exceed in number and value all others previ- 

 ously made in that region. He also procured many specimens of mam- 

 mals, reptiles, insects, &c. — the whole furnishing a large amount of 

 materials new to science. 



Colonel George A. McCall, of the United States army, during a recent 

 tour through Oregon and California, in pursuance of his duties as 

 inspector general, embraced the occasion, as in previous instances, to 

 secure such zoological specimens as fell in his way. The most inter- 

 esting acquisition thus made was that of a new genus of Saurians, 

 somew^iat resembling Phnjnosoina in the presence of spines on the head, 

 since characterized by Dr. Hailowell under the name of Anota. 



Reference has already been made to the very great additions to our 

 knowledge of the geographical range and association of species fur- 

 nished by the coUectious and reports of the numerous correspondents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, scattered, as they are, over the entire area 

 of the United States. The particular record of their operations will be 

 found in the list of additions to the museum of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



Mr. William StimpsoUt whose labors have been referred to in a pre- 

 vious report, during last summer again visited the rocky shores of 

 Grand Manan, where he found a rich harvest. Many new species of 

 marine invertebrates were procured, and others added to the American 

 fauna, which were previously known only on the coast of Europe or of 

 Greenland. Tlie results of his investigations he proposes to present to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, in the form of a memoir on the marine in- 

 vertebrata of Grand Manan. This gentleman has been selected to 

 accompany the expedition of Captain Ringgold, as zoologist, and will, 

 doubtless, in connexion with his associate, Mr. Wright, as botanist, be 

 the means of greatly extending the domain of natural science. 



Marine Alga. — The publication, by the Smithsonian Institution, of 

 Harvey's Marine Algas of North America, has been the means of exciting 

 great interest in the study of this attractive department of botany. Nu- 

 merous collections have been made during the past summer, by differ- 

 ent individuals, embracing many species additional to those described 

 by Dr. Harvey. 



Professor C. B. Adams, of Amherst College, having just completed 

 his work on the shells of Panama, and desirous of procuring additional 



