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by cutting a slice of some green stem, when the sap is in 

 the wood and it is therefore the more readily cut, and also 

 taking a slice of some Endogen, the garden asparagus being 

 an excellent plant for that purpose, and after placing them 

 on a glass "slide" and moistening them with water, covering 

 them with a piece of thin "covering glass," and then exam- 

 ining them with a microscope ; even an ordinary pocket lens 

 will often show these points of structure very well. Thus 

 will the student of nature find -instruction and amusement, 

 knowledge and pastime, even in a shaving of wood cast off 

 from a carpenter's jack-plane. 



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EXPLANATION OF PLATE 10. 



Fig. 1. Section of oak wood cut transversely across the grain. 

 Fig. 2. Transverse section of sugar cane. 

 Both magnified 25 diameters. 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE RARER BIRDS OF 

 MASSACHUSETTS. 



BY J. A. ALLEN. 

 (Continued from page 519.) 



GOLDEN EAGLE. Aquila chrysaetos Linn. (A. Canadensis 

 auct.) A specimen was killed near Munson in November, 

 1864, and another near Deerfield, December 14th, 1865. 

 The latter, a female, is said to have weighed thirteen and a 

 half pounds, and to have measured seven feet and six inches 

 in alar extent. It is now in the Springfield Museum of 

 Natural History. Mr. J. G. Scott informs me that two speci- 

 mens were captured near Westfield three years ago, one of 

 which is in his cabinet.* 



*Inepist., Nov. 21, 1868. 



