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He is soon to read a paper on this subject, at the first 
meeting of the Academia dei Linnei at Rome. Whether, 
however, he will do so, owing to the recent changes there, 
we cannot say. This year he passed a good part of his vaca- 
tions at Falaise with the famous French naturalist Brébisson, 
comparing notes with him, to ascertain the genuineness of the 
species he intended to photograph. At the annual meeting 
of the Linnean Society of Normandy at Valogne, he went with 
his friend, and was glad to meet there, amidst other celebrities, 
his brother academician Le Foly, who proposed him in turn, 
and had him named a correspondent member of the Société 
des Sciences Naturelles. Leaving Falaise, after another 
week, he was determined to visit Belgium, Holland, and 
Germany before returning home. At Paris he joined his friend 
Abbé Carnoy, a distinguished microscopist, and they went 
together to Niewport, where they gathered important mate- 
rials, amongst which was the beautiful Awlacodiscus mar- 
garitaceus, a new species of Halionyx, and several other 
curious diatoms. At Anvers he joined another friend of his, 
J. Gautier—a prodigy, he says, of memory. Hence he went 
to Haya in Holland, visiting Professor Ardemans in Amster- 
dam, Artig in Utrecht, Swingar in Leyden, and other scientific 
friends on his way back to Paris, where, having been dis- 
suaded by his friends from going to Berlin whilst the war 
was on foot, he lastly resolved to go home through Marseilles, 
Toulon, and Nice, where he filled up his gatherings for the 
winter work. 
