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of Uie paper relates to birds, — the great axik, the 

 dodo, and the giant birds of New Zealand ; but the 

 mammoth and Steller's manatee are specially men- 

 tioned among mammals. 



— The Royal geographical society has lately award- 

 ed medals to Sir J. D. Hooker for his services in 

 scientific and botanical geography, extending over 

 many years, and based on voyages to the Antarctic 

 and Australian seas, to India and the Himalaya, and 

 travels in Morocco and the United States ; and to 

 E. C. Baber, of the British legation at Peking, for 

 his reports and maps of journeys into the interior of 

 China. Money-grants were voted to Abbe Petitot for 

 his researches to the north of Great Slave Lake, to 

 W. D. Cowan for his surveys in central Madagascar, 

 and to F. C. Selgus for his journeys in the Zambesi 

 basin. 



— At a meeting of the Society of arts, Massachu- 

 setts institute of technology, May 24, Professor 

 Elihu Thomson exhibited in operation, and ex- 

 plained, the Thomson-Houston system of electric 

 lighting of the American electric company of New 

 Britain, Conn. 



— When noticing, in a former number of Science, 

 the curious worm-like articulated impressions from 

 the Potsdam sandstone, the writer of the notice was 

 not aware that the name ' Rusichnites ' had been pre- 

 viously proposed by Mr. Whlteaves for the similar 

 markings from the Gasp6 sandstone referred to in 

 the note. 



— In the weekly summary, H 614, for ' tortricid 

 moth,' read ' tineid moth.' 



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