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send on application a list of errata intended 

 to accompany his report on the Lead and 

 Zinc Deposits of Missouri. 



In its issue of June 27th, Nature reprints 

 from Insect Life, in a slightly condensed 

 form, an article on ' Social Insects ' by 

 Professor C. V. Riley, delivered as Presi- 

 dent's address before the Biological Society 

 of Washington. Professor Eiley says that 

 insects undoubtedly possess the senses of 

 sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing, but 

 that touch is perhaps the only sense that 

 can be strictly compared with our own. 

 There is also the best of evidence that in- 

 sects possess other sense organs with which 

 we have none to compare. 



The International Statistical Institute 

 will hold its fifth meeting at Berne from 

 the 26th to the 30th of August next. 



Aisr addition has recentlj^ be made to the 

 Arnold Arboretum (Harvard University) 

 of some fifty acres of land, making the 

 whole area now two hundred and twenty- 

 two acres. 



AccoEDiNG to the New York Evening Post, 

 Prof. Koebele, of California, whose discovery 

 of the Australian ladybug as a foe of the 

 black scale in California fruit orchards has 

 been of so great value, has found in Japan 

 an insect which he thinks will prove equally 

 fatal to the potato bug. 



The first week of the Summer Congress 

 at Greenacre, on the Piscataqua, was de- 

 voted to the Conference of Evolutionists 

 which held its first meeting on July 6th, 

 under the the direction of Dr. Lewis G. 

 Janes, President of the Brooklyn Ethical 

 Association. The program was as follows : 



Saturday, July 6th — Evolution Conference, under 

 the direction of Dr. Lewis G. Jaaes, President of the 

 Ethical Association ; S P. M., Professor Edward D. 

 Cope, Ph. D., of the Universitj- of Pennsylvania, 

 ' The Present Problems of Organic Evolution ; ' 8 P. 

 M., paper from Herbert Spencer, of London, Eng., 

 ' Social Evolution and Social Duty, ' to be followed 

 by a symposium and brief addresses. 



Monday, July 8—3 P. JX., Mr. Henry Wood, of Bos- 

 ton, Mass., 'Industrial Evolution;' 8 P. M., Mr. 

 Benjamin F. Underwood, 'Editor PhilosophicalJom-nal, 

 Chicago, 111., 'How Evolution Reconciles Opijosing 

 Views of Ethics and Philosophy ; ' letters and brief 

 addresses. 



Tuesday, July 9 — 3 P. M., Professor Edward S. 

 Morse, of the Peabody Institute, Salem, ilass., 'Nat- 

 ural Selection and Crime;' 8 P. M., Dr. Martin L. 

 Holbrook, editor Journal of Hygiene, New York, 

 'Evolution's Hopeful Promise for Human Health.' 



Wednesday, July 10—3 P. M., Eev. Edward P. 

 Powell, of Clinton, N. Y., 'Evolution of Individu- 

 ality;' 8 P. M., Miss Mary Proctor, of New York, 

 ' Other Worlds Than Ours, ' with stereopticon Illus- 

 trations. 



Thursday, July 11— 3 P. M., Eev. James T. Bixby, 

 Ph. D., of Youkers, N. Y., 'Evolution of the God- 

 Idea;' 8 P. M., Dr. Lewis G. Janes, President 

 Brooklj'n Ethical Association, ' Evolution of Morals. ' 



The Congress will be continued during 

 the months of July and August, a lecture 

 being delivered on each afternoon and 

 occasionally one also in the evening. The 

 last lecture will be delivered on August 

 31st, by Hon. Carroll D. Wright. 



Professor Eraser has obtained, we are 

 informed, definite proof of the antidotal 

 properties of the blood serum of venomous 

 serpents. This result was not unanticipated, 

 as will have been gathered from the state- 

 ments already published, but its establish- 

 ment is a matter of great interest, and, per- 

 haps, of some practical importance, since 

 never before, probably, have the bane and 

 the antidote been brought so near together. 

 — British Medical Journal. 



Tavo distinct earthquake shocks were felt 

 in Springfield, Mo., on July Sth. The first 

 at 7:30 o'clock and the second a minute 

 later. The duration of the first vibration 

 was five seconds and the second two seconds. 

 No damage was done. 



On July 10th, according to the Evening 

 Post, several severe earthquake shocks were 

 experienced in the Caspian and Ural dis- 

 tricts of Eussia. Many houses were de- 

 stroyed at Usunada, Astrachan and Eras- 

 novodsk. 



