178 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [September, 



Life-lore is the alliterative title of a new English magazine of Popular Biology. 

 The August number (No. 2) contains an account of the New Plymouth Laboratory, 

 and articles on Symbiosis, British Rock-boring MoUusks, Introduction to the Study 

 of Dragon-Flies, and Thomas Bewick. It is published monthly at sixpence per number. 



S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has recently published a 

 work called- The New Astronomy , which receives a very enthusiastic notice from a 

 critic in Nature. Some of the topics are familiar, having been previously treated by 

 Prof. Langley in the Century Magazme. 



Prof. Hitchcock and wife, who have been in Japan for the past two years, have 

 started on the journey homeward. They gave up, in June, their charming bungalow 

 at Osaka which had been their home during their stay, and went to Yokohama. About 

 the first of September Prof, and Mrs. Hitchcock were to sail for home by way of China, 

 India, and Europe. They will spend a short time in China and in India, but will 

 make their longest stop in Germany. They will arrive here in November or December. 



Dr. R. Von Lendenfeld has received from the Berlin Academy of Natural Science 

 a grant of 1000 marks to be used in prosecuting studies upon the function of digestion 

 in sponges. 



The U. S. Fish Commission has recently succeeded in sending lobsters alive to 

 California, 350 being gotten through alive out of 600 which were started. They were 

 set free in the waters of the Pacific coast near San Francisco. 



The Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, England, has been completed. It 

 cost _^i2,ooo, has an annual income of ,^9,000. Prof. Cunningham and Prof. Weldon 

 are in charge of it, and are at work, the one upon the Life History of Food Fishes, 

 the other on the Crustacea of Plymouth Sound. 



Exchanges. 



[Exchanges are inserted in this column without charge. They will be strictly limited to mounted objects, and 

 material for mounting.] 



OFFERED. — Diatomaceous earth from Thibet, various localities (12,000 feet); also, material and slides of 

 diatoms from Scottish Highlands, and continental foraminifereC. WANTED. — Slides of American diatoms, 

 insects, or botany. W. D. STEWART, 2 Gilmore Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland. 



OFFERED. — Sections of vegetable ivory and slides of crystalized maple sugar. Good mounts taken in 

 exchange. WM. LIGHTON, 106 Filth Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas. 



WANTED. — Parasites and books on Parasites and other micro, subjects. Will give Anatomical, Pathologi- 

 cal Botanical, Micro-fungi, Zoophytes, Polycistinae, Foraminifera, Parasites, and ether slides in return. 

 ' FRED. LEE CARTER, Gosforth, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. 



Wanted, Diatomaceous earth from Megillanes, Bolivia, South America. Can give in exchange either Dia- 

 tomaceous earth from New Zealand or cash. E. MICHALEK, 



L Fleischemarkt, No. i, Vienna, Austria. 

 Mounted sections of Foetal Lung (5 months), sections across entire lobe, lyjj'tnj in. thick, beautifully stained, in 

 exchange for first-class pathological slides. W. C. BORDEN, M. D., U. S. A., 



Fort Douglas, Utah. 

 Wanted earths, recent diatoms, and miscellaneous objects for mounting. Only first-class material offered or 

 desired. MARY A. BOOTH, Longmeadow, Mass. 



Fossil Diatomaceous deposits (marine) wanted from Bermuda, Virginia, Maryland, California, etc. 



I. ELLIOTT, Ardwyn Villa, Aberystwith, Wales, England. 

 Labels for slides. EUGENE PINCKNEY, Dixon, 111. 



Correspondence relative to exchange in microscopical material or prepared mounts. 



HENRY L. OSBORN, Hamline, Minn. 

 First-class Histological Slides for other good mounts; Histological and Pathological material cut on shares 



S. G. SHANKS, M. D., 547 Clinton Ave., Albany, N. Y. , 

 FOR EXCHANGE. — StrichniaChromate (Strichnia ji^jgr.) andStrichnia Ferri-Cyanide (Strichnia xosg' 

 Will exchange for other slides, Botanical preferred. Only first-class slides offered or desired. 



L. A. HARDING, Fergus Falls, Mini'' 



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