December 21, 1883.] 



SCIENCE. 



809 



erty of the Museum of comparative zoology at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



— We reproduce by plioto-engraving, from Tlie pho- 

 tographic news, a cut prejiareil from nature by tlw; Lux- 

 otype process of the Englisli firm of IJrowii, liarnes, 

 & Bell. It should be uienlloned that coiisideraljle 

 clearness has been lost in the reproduction on account 



for printing with type will find much in this series of 

 articles of great interest. The portrait of Dr. LeConte, 

 in this number of Science, was made by the Ives pro- 

 cess, no hand-work having been used in the prepara- 

 tion of the plate from a photograph. 



— While we are prosecuting our researches among 

 the mounds, shell-heaps, and pueblos, of our own ter- 



of the fineness of the stipple in the origin.al, and the 

 acknowledged hasty printing of the Ncw.i. The. pho- 

 tographic news has given during the last few months 

 a number of separate imprints from plates made by 

 processes similar to that of Mr. Ives of Thiladelphia; 

 that of Sara Bernhardt, in the issue for Nov. 23, being 

 possibly the most satisfactory. Any one interested in 

 the advances in the methods of making relief-plates 



ritory, we must not forget the thorough work going 

 on in India under the patronage of the Uritish gov- 

 ernment. For aljont ten years, an areheological sur- 

 vey of the ancient cave and rock-hewn temples of 

 we.stern India has been in operation, and, previously 

 to the present year, three handsome quartos, profusely 

 illustrated, have been published. The third volume 

 treated more especially of the cave-temples of India. 



