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occasion by Mrs. Chamberlin. Mr. W. H. Harrington 

 read the report of the entomological branch, indi- 

 cating the work so far accomplished in the study of 

 the Ottawa fauna, and the amount that would still 

 be required to develop a knowledge of the various 

 orders. The report referred to some rare species, 

 and to others which had been unusually abundant 

 or destructive. A case specially prepared showed 

 many of the insects mentioned, with labels giving 

 scientific and common names, and food-plants. Some 

 discussion followed the lecture and reports; and a 

 vote of thanks was tendered to the lecturer for his 

 valuable paper. 



— The electrical exhibition at Ca,en, France, will 

 open May 15. The board in charge consists of Count 

 du Moncel, honorary president ; MM. Boreux, Bou- 

 tard, Lecornu, Rabut, Professor Neyreneuf, M. 

 Berjot, pere, MM. Baumier and Veriene. Any 

 applications for space should be addressed to the 

 mayor of Caen, who is also a member of the board. 



— A paper on Our coal interests, read by P. W. 

 Sheafer at the annual meeting of the Mining insti- 

 tute of Pennsylvania, held at Shenandoah, Jan. 

 27, has been printed in full in the Mining herald of 

 that place for Feb. 24. 



— The Scientific American supplement for March 

 17 contains a long article by L. P. Gratacap, on the 

 American museum of natural history in Central 

 Park, New York. 



— The second report on the Peter Redpath museum 

 of McGill university, just issued, contains several 

 papers by Principal Dawson, noticing important dona- 

 tions, and describing new and interesting specimens: 

 one on a whale from the Saxicava gravel, near Smith's 

 Falls, Ontario, 420 feet above the St. Lawrence; an- 

 other on miscellaneous carboniferous fossils from the 

 eastern provinces; and a third on graptolites of the 

 Quebec group. 



— Telegrams to the daily press announce that the 

 scientific expedition sent out by the United-States 

 government, under the charge of Prof. Edward S. 

 Holden, to observe the coming eclipse of the sun 

 at the Caroline Islands, reached Lima, Peru, in good 

 health, and had just sailed thence in the U. S. 

 sloop-of-war Hartford for their destination. 



— Dr. Paul Topinard took occasion, at one of his 

 last spring's course of lectures at the school of an- 

 thropology in Paris, to sum up the labors of Count 

 George Louis LeClerc Buffon [1707-1788] as a stu- 

 dent of the natural history of man, considering him 

 "as the chief of the new school which produced 

 Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and the precursor of 

 Lamarck and Darwin." — "He was not only the 

 precursor of Lamarck, but his inspirer." 



— In our Summary, paragraph 372, for 'Rurich- 

 nites,' read ' Rusichnites,' and for'Traena,' 'Frae- 



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