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1861. Mr 8. W. Kain has a paper on New Brunswick earthquakes. 
Mr John Moser deals with the mosses, Philip Cox with the batrachia, 
W. F. Ganong with the natural history and physiography, and G. F. 
Matthew describes recent discoveries in the San John Group. A 
bibliography of scientific publications relating to New Brunswick is 
contributed by S. W. Kain. 
No. 30 of the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society contains a paper by H. W. Ridley on the birds in the Botanic 
Gardens, Singapore, one by the same author on plants of the genus 
Peliosanthes of the Malay Peninsula, and yet another on the White 
Snake of the Salangor Caves, Coluber taeniwrus. Some valuable papers 
on Malay Magic, Folk Lore, the game of Chap Ji Ki, and the oldest 
Malay MS. now extant, make up a substantial and creditable journal. 
The Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey have started 
a series of Bulletins. No. 1 is by Filibert Roth, special agent of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, and is on the forestry con- 
ditions of Northern Wisconsin. There isa map. No. 2, by Geo. W. 
and Elizabeth G. Peckham, is entitled “ Instincts and habits of Solitary 
Wasps,” and is a volume of 245 pp., and 14 plates. We hope to refer 
to these again later. 
These Bulletins are to form three series—Scientific, Economic, and 
Educational. Mr Roth’s paper belongs to the second series, and is to 
be followed by one on the building stones of Wisconsin by E. R. 
Buckley; the wasp paper belongs to the first series, and is to be 
followed by Geology of the Pre-Cambrian igneous rocks of the Fox 
River Valley by 8. Weidman ; the three first papers in the Educa- 
tional series will be Collie’s Physiography of Southern Wisconsin, 
Salisbury’s Physical Geography and Geology of the dells of the Wis- 
consin and the Devil's Lake, and Cheney’s forest trees of Wisconsin. 
The Wisconsin Survey was only established in 1897, and is under the 
direction of Mr. E. A. Birge, Madison, Wis. 
The Boletim de Museu Paraense for June contains a plan of the 
Museum of Para and attached Botanical Gardens, with a description 
by Dr E. Goeldi. Dr J. Huber contributes materials for an Ama- 
zonian flora, Dr C. F. Hartt continues his notes on some inedited 
works of the Geological Commission of Brazil, and Dr Huber writes 
on Vochysia Goeldii, a new species of the Ferrugineae. Photographs 
of Hymenaca Courbaril, L. and Crudya Parivoa, De C., are also given. 
The Naturalist for October contains an account of an ancient Lake- 
dwelling at Sand-le-Mere, near Withernsea, EK. Yorkshire, by Thos. 
Sheppard. The Rev. W. C. Hey gives a list of Bird names in use at 
West Ayton, Yorkshire, and there are some interesting notes from 
the Churchwarden’s accounts of Terrington concerning the killing of 
polecats, which have been extracted by John Wright. 
The Lrish Naturalist for October includes a paper by Dr C. J. 
Patten, on the birds of Dublin Bay. In La Feuille des Jeunes 
Naturalistes Fournier concludes his paper on the Jura Chain and 
Eugene Simon concludes his revision of the genera of Humming- 
birds. In the Journal of the Limerick Field Club, Part II., there is 
a paper by Dr W. A. Foggerty on the Flora of the Limerick district. 
As it is full of misprints and includes enough rarities of the Irish 
flora to cause a pilgrimage, it is but fair to say that Dr Foggerty is 
