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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Revision of the Mole CricJcets. By S. II. Scudder. Being the first 

 memoir of tlie Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. (Price 11.25.) 

 An admirable memoir on this curious family of insects by one of the best 

 American authorities on the order to which they belong. The press of the 

 Essex Institute certainly deserves the highest commendation for the remark- 

 ably beautiful specimens of typography that it issues; the work before us is 

 a marvel of excellence, both as regards the paper and printing. The large 

 plate with which it is illustrated is also exceedingly well done. 



A Guide to the Study of Insects. By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. Partvi., 

 March, 1869. . (50 cents.) This part completes the account of the Moths, 

 and begins the description of the Diptera. It is illustrated with a handsome 

 new steel plate, figuring the transformations of Moths, and about fifty wood- 

 cuts. The author now announces that four more parts will complete the 

 work. 



Le Naturaliste Canadien. Nos. 3 and 4, Feb. and March, 1869. Que- 

 bec, P. Q. ($2 per annum). 



The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist with the Proceedings of the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal. New series, Vol. iii., Nos. 4, 5, and 6, 

 Jan. to Dec, 1868. ($3 per vol.) 



Proceedings of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. xii., March, 1869. 

 The American Naturalist. Salem, Mass., Vol. iii.. Nos. 1 and 2, March 

 and April, 1869. ($4 per annum.) 



Tlie WeeMy N. T. Sun. New York, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 1869. ($1.) 

 The Canada Farmer. Toronto, March, 1869. (|1 per annum.) 

 The American Entomologist. St. Louis, Mo., March and April, 1869. 

 ($1.) 



The American Agriculturist. Orange, Judd & Co., 245 Broadway, New 

 York, March and April, 1869. A very handsomely illustrated publication 

 for farmers and gardeners. ($1.50 per annum.) 

 The Cynthia Silk-worm. By W. V. Andrews. 



An Essay on Entozoa, Observations on the Building Stone of the Ottawa 

 Country, and An Essay on the native compounds and metallurgy of Iron. 

 By Dr. E. Van-Cortlandt, Ottawa, Ont. 



History and Condition of the Portland Society of Natural History from 

 1866 to 1869. We know of no scientific society that has been so singularly 

 unfortunate as that of Portland, Maine ; twice its hall and cabinets have been 

 destroyed by fire. In 1854 it lost every species of property that belonged to 

 it by the burning of the Custom House, and in the fearful conflagration of 



