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and mountaineers of the Caucasus; Feb. 3, Dr. D. 

 Webster Prentiss, Mesmerism in animals, with ex- 

 periments; Feb. 10, Professor Theodore Gill, Mythi- 

 cal animals; Feb. 17, Dr. John S. Billings, U.S.A., 

 Germs and epidemics. 



— ^ At the meeting of the Biological society of Wash- 

 ington, held Jan. 19, an address was given by the 

 retiring president, Professor Theodore Gill, on the 

 Principles of zoogeography. 



— The Association of Ohio Colleges, during its 

 meeting at Wooster, Dec. 27, formally adopted the 

 resolutions of the American association for the ad- 

 vancement of science and the American philological 

 association, concerning the degrees of S.D. and Ph.D. 

 Henceforth the sixteen colleges comprising the asso- 

 ciation are in honor bound not to confer either de- 

 gree, except upon examination. 



— Diffuse but entertaining notes on the habits of 

 Lepus sylvaticus are given by Rev. Samuel Lockwood 

 in the December number of the American Naturalist. 



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