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292 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
been thawed out ina trough. The male one I caught, it lay on the 
ice, frozen, for three hours, ‘and then not finding a mate for him, I run 
a stick through his gills and dragged him home on the snow, two mi iles, 
threw him into the trough, and thought no more of him tll next morn- 
ing, when [ found him alive and seemingly enjoying himself as well as 
his narrow _— would permit. [took pity on the — fellow, car- 
ried him n to the pond, and he went off with a 
These are one a few instances of what occurs sis eri every day 
the winter through. The fact of their eae etter after being frozen 
as [ liave described, is knowa to every one here who is in the habit of 
thawed out before they can be clean 
I have heard some say that they bade taken trout when frozen, and 
Hat pe the fins and tail off, and on being thawed, found them alive; 
ut I have never tried this nor any other experiment ri them, @ 
rie not vouch for the a cee it. RopertT CLARKE. 
Adirondac Iron Works, Essex e's 
5. American Association fs the Advancement of Science —The next 
Wile of the American — will be held in Washington City, 
commencing with the of April. 
ser make a g tion for a ry wc emy or College where there 
is instruction in seearaiee It will be sold low. Addre — 8. 
Esq., No. 145 Mulberry st., Philadelphia. 
7. Cameroceras trentonense and Orthis Verneuili,—Mr. 
ume). But if the figure orn by Hisinger is to be relied upon, itis 
Continet 
siphonem modicz crassitiei zequantem circiter partem diame- 
tri sbaeteatins lotius teste, eumque ut sees inter axin et amo! 
tum tubi in medio si Bat in the C. tonense, the siphon 's 
marginal and full one-half the shortest diameter of the tube, — 
nearly as possible to four-ninths of the — diameter, the form 0 
the shell being oval in all specime 
De Verneuil cites Orthis Verktesiili ae the Ottowa River, Canada, 
in Logan’s collection, and if this be correct, it is an American n species. 
Mr. Marcou has therefore the authority of de Verneuil for pronounciag 
both of these species as American; yet there is reason 10 believe : 
the facts are otherwise 
8. Osrrva ae —J. E. Tescnemacuer, (Communicated by the ares 
Soc. of Nat. Hist.)—Ata meeting of the Boston none ety of Nat oa 
History held Dec. 2Ist, the President, Dr. J.C. War spoke of 1 a 
oe death of one of its members, Mr. J. E. Teschemacher, % 
follow dni 
Ge osleee :-—Our Societ y has Seervinton’ a great loss in re 
of Mr. Teschemacher, one.of its most valuable members ; 
