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Mexico and Western Texas with 3000 speci- 
mens of insects, collected after many miraculous | 
escapes from the Apaches, 
“Granny,” the sixty year old sea anemone of | 
the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, has just died. 
It was collected in 1828 by Sir John Dalzell, 
at St. Abbs Head, on the Berwick Coast. 
An expedition under the auspices of the 
Smithsonian Institution, and under the charge 
of Professor Frank Cushman, has been very 
successful in the Salt River Valley, in Southern 
Arizona. ‘The remains of an ancient city were | 
found, and it was clearly proven that the 
former inhabitants were equal in intelligence to 
the Aztecs. 
Dr. Schliemann has willed all his archzeo- 
logical collections to the Berlin Ethnological 
Museum. 
Philip Hoffman, a German clergyman and 
naturalist, claims in his autobiography in Strie- 
der’s Gehehrten-Lexicon, that he discovered the 
art of photography in 1833, six years before 
Daguerre. 
Professor O. H. Drake, of the Maine Central 
Institute, has been offered the chair of Greek 
in Hillsdale College, Mich. 
Professor Julius Wilhelm Ewald, the noted 
German mineralogist, recently celebrated at 
Berlin the 50th anniversary of his doctorate. 
Miss Helen A. Shafer, a graduate of Oberlin, | 
(where she obtained the Master’s Degree), has 
been selected as President of Wellesley College. 
It is said that the largest and most powerful | 
electric light in the world is possessed by the | 
light-house at Sydney, Australia. It is of 180,- 
000 candle power, and may be seen for 50 
miles. 
A Mr. Coplen, of Latah, Washington Terri- 
tory, has lately discovered, at a spring near that 
place, the pre-historic remains of no Jess than 
nine elephants, a cave bear, hyenas, extinct 
birds and a sea turtle. 
The Clavtonia caroliniana has been found 
in the West at an altitude of 6000 feet, in full | 
bloom, and not more than an inch high. 
The Baylor Universjty of Waco, Texas, has 
just opened its elegant new building. 
| Cal. 
| but not on any other island of the group. 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
REPORTS, CATALOGUES, &C. Catalogue and 
Circular of the California State Normal School, 
San José. Report of the Department of Na- 
tural History of the North-Western University, 
| from Oliver Marcy, LL. D., Curator of the 
Museum. West Coast Pulmonata, Fossil and 
Living, By J. G. Cooper, M D. 
THE CoLLector, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Edu- 
cational Review, St. John, N. B. The Youth’s 
Leisure Hour, Boonville, N. Y. The Agent’s 
World, Passumpsic, Vt. The Yankee Trader, 
Marietta, Ohio. Southern Californian, Lugonia, 
The Ottawa Globe, Ottawa. Ill. 
VALVES. 
The shells from the Paumotu Isles in the 
Pacific are noted for their dwarfed size. 
Mr. C. F. Ancey, of Berronaghia, Algeria, 
has lately been honored again by having a for- 
eign C7220 named after him. 
Mr. Theo. D. A. Cockerell, of West Cliff, 
Col., found several species apparently new to 
Colorado, belonging to the genera, Pis¢dizvz, 
| Spherium, Ancylus, Pupa and Hyalina. 
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The Editor of THE CoNncHoLoecists’ Ex- 
CHANGE has been honored by Professor Berlin 
H. Wright, who lately named a Unio found by 
him in Lake Ashby, Florida, Unto Averellit. 
Various species of Ostrea, Perna and Melea- 
grvina were found on pumice stone at sea, 
near Mauritius in 1886, and it is supposed that 
the floating debris was the result of the erup- 
tion of Krakatoa, which occurred in 1883. 
Mr. Andrew Garrett, the noted Polynesian 
| Conchologist, found A/elania Mauiensis, Lea, 
(habitat of type, Sandwich Islands), at Tahiti, 
He 
also obtained it at Guam and in the Philip- 
pines, and received it from the New Hebrides, 
and regards it as probably identical with 17. 
granifera and scopulus. 
