and lakes of the United States, the United States Commissioner 
-of Fish and Fisheries made arrangements with Mr, N, W. Clark 
to hatch out several hundred thousand white fish eggs at his 
establishment at Clarkston, Michigan, with the special object 
of transferring them, in due season, to the waters of California. 
_ At the proper time, in February last, two hundred thousand 
eggs were carefully packed and forwarded to California ; but, 
_ for some unexplained reason, they were nearly all dead on their 
arrival. Inno way discouraged by this experience, the Com- 
missioner directed the shipment of a second lot of two hundred 
_ thousand eggs, which arrived in good condition, and the greater 
number have since hatched out at the State hatching establish- 
ment at Clear Lake, into which body of water they will be put 
atthe right time. The feasibility of shipping the eggs of white 
fish over so great a distance has now been satisfactorily solved, 
and there will probably be no difficulty in carrying on this work 
to any desirable extent. Mr. Stone has returned to the East 
with the view of procuring living black bass, eels, perch, and 
lobsters, which he will take back to Californiaina few weeks, 
in a special car arranged expressly for the purpose. The 
California Commissioners appear to be fully alive to the interests 
involved in the multiplication of the food-fishes in their State, 
and seem disposed to leaye no metho untried to accomplish 
this desirable object. 
Tue American Association for the Advancement of Science 
commences its twenty-second session at Portland, Maine, on 
Aug. 20. 
THE Annual General Meeting of the Iron and Steei institute 
will be held at Willis’s Rooms, London, on April 29 and 30, 
and May 1. 
Pror. O. C. Mars has in the current number of the 
_ American Fournal of Science and Ars done much to clear up 
the difficulties connected with the Dinocerata. 
He has had the 
opportunity of comparing his specimens with photographs of 
Eobasileus or Loxolophodon cornutus of Cope, for the first time, 
and finds that it is exactly the same as the species named by him 
(Marsh) Zinoceras grandis some time before the introduction of 
either of Prof. Cope’s synonyms. Prof. Marsh says, ‘‘ The 
species of Dinocérata at present known with certainty are the 
following :—Zinoceras anceps Marsh, Zinoceras grandis Marsh, 
Vintatherium robustum Leidy, Dinoceras mirabilis Marsh, Dino- 
ceras lacustris Marsh.” With regard to the osteology of the 
class, we are surprised to hear for the first time that in the foot » 
the hallux is absent, and the astragalus articulates with the cuboid 
as well as the naviculare bone, features not Proboscidjan at all. 
IF we may judge from the “ Register” of Lehigh University, 
South Bethlehem, Penns., U.S., that institution seems to 
be, in most respects, a model one. It was founded only 
a few years ago, andis the result of a magnificent gift of 500,000 
dollars and 56 acres of ground, beautifully situated in the Lehigh 
Valley, South Bethlehem, by the Hon. Asa Packer, South Beth- 
lehem is about fifty-four miles from Philadelphia, The education 
given by the staff of professors is free, the only expense to the 
student being his board, books, apparatus, &e. According to 
the plan of education laid down, the first three terms ‘‘are 
devoted, by all regular students, to the study of those elementary 
branches in which every young man should be instructed, for 
whatever profession or business in life he may be intended, viz, 
Mathematics, Languages, Elementary Physics, Chemistry, 
Drawing, History, Rhetoric, Logic, Declamation, and Com- 
position.” At the end of this preliminary period, by which 
time the Lehigh student will be not less than 17} years old, he 
makes up his mind what particular direction his stud es will 
take during the remaining five terms (24 years) which complete 
the regular course, According as he decides, the student goes 
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through the special course provided for one of the following 
subjects :—General Literature, Civil Engineering, Mechanical 
Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, or Analytical Chemistry : 
three other departments have yet to be added to this special 
course. According to the prospectus before us, the training 
provided in each of the special courses is wise and thorough, and 
well calculated to put a diligent student in the way to make the ~ 
furthest advances in the branch he adopts. Any student who 
wishes may pursue his studies at the University free for three 
years longer than the regular course. Latin and Greek are 
optional in all departments except that of Literature (which, by 
the bye, has a large infusion of physical science), while French 
and German are imperative in all. The institution is rendered 
complete by an excellent laboratory, a well-furnished observa- 
tory and a gymnasium. 
Pror, PeTeRs has named the last two planets discovered by 
him, Nos. 129 and 130, Antigone and Electra. 
Amonc Mr. Murray’s list of forthcoming works are the 
following : —* The evil Effects of Interbreeding in the Vegetable 
Kingdom,” by Charles Darwin, F.R.S.; Sir Charles Lyell’s 
“ Antiquity of Man,” 4th edition; “ England and Russia in the 
East,” by Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B., F.RS.; ‘* Human 
Longevity: its Facts and Fictions,” by W. J. Thoms; ‘f Per- 
sonal Recollections from Early Life to Old Age,” by Mary 
Somerville. 
THE Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences has recently done 
a very proper thing. Onthe suggestion of the council, the 
Hon. Secretary was instructed to communicate with such 
members of the Suciety as might be elected to serve on the 
Perth School Board and other School Boards in Perthshire, and 
ask them to keep in view the importance of introducing into the 
course of instruction in schools the elements of natural science, 
SoME time since a paragraph appeared in NATURE relating 
to a supposed power of a preparation of boxwood over the 
growth of the human hair. A correspondent would be glad if 
any of our readers could inform him in what way the prepara- 
tion is made, and what part of the plant is used. 
Mr. F. W. Putnam has sent us a few archeological notes on 
an ancient fortification surrounded by a great number of mounds, 
at Merom and Hutsonsville, Sullivan Co., Ind., U.S. The 
fort is situated on a plateau of loess, about 170 feet above the 
Wabash, on the east bank of the river. The position of the 
fort would be one of great advantage even at the present day. 
One of the mounds outside was dug into, and at the bottom of 
the pit thus made were found remains of a fire, bones of animals, 
pottery, and an arrow head. Mr, Putnam concludes that the 
pits now filled up so as to form mounds, were the houses of the 
inhabitants or defenders of the fort. 
THE additions to the Zoological Society’s Gardens during the 
last week include an Ocelot (/v/is pardalis), from Honduras, 
presented by Miss E, E. Brooks ; two vinaceous Turtle Doves 
( Zurtur vinaceus) from W. Africa, presented by T. P. Tindale ; 
a Leopard (Felis pardus) and a Civet Cat (Viverra civetta) from 
W. Africa, presented by L. Hart; two Goldfinch (Carduelis 
elegans) and two Canary Finches (Sevinus canarius) from Madeira, 
and a Paradise Whydah Bird (Vidua paradisea) from W. Africa, 
presented by Lieut. F. L., C, Hearne ; a Philantomba Antelope 
(Cephalopus maxwellii), born in the Gardens ; three Indian Tree 
Ducks (Deudrocygna arcuata); three Summer Ducks (div 
sponsa) from N, America ; two Hooded Cranes (Gras mona- 
chus) from Japan, purchased; two Malayan Tapirs (Zagirus 
indicus), a Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), from the 
Malay peninsula; a Derbian Wallaby (Walmaturus derbianus) 
from Australia ; a Hoffmann’s Sloth (Cholopus hoffmanni) from 
(anama; and a Greater Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua 
galerita) from Australia, deposited, 
