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SCIENCE. 



IN. S. Vol. XXII. No. 556. 



fact that Hampson has removed it to another 

 geiius does not invalidate the change, which 

 was proper when made. He has here violated 

 the rule ' Once a synonym, always a synonym.' 



Page 366. The distribution of the genus 

 Morrisonia is remarkable. Twenty-eight spe- 

 cies are known, twenty-two in New Zealand, 

 six in the United States, and none anywhere else 

 in the world. Of the United States species, 

 five are eastern, only one being western (Ari- 

 zona). Morrison's species peracuta, described 

 as from the United States, is removed to the 

 next genus and becomes a synonym of a New 

 Zealand species, the United States locality 

 heing regarded as erroneous. 



Page 403j my species Perigrapha achsha is 

 omitted (Can. Ent, XXX VI., 32, 1904). 



On page 596, Leucania rubripallens is cred- 

 ited to Kaslo, British Columbia. I did not 

 find the species there (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XX VII., 863, 1894), and I believe that this is 

 a case of misidentification. The synoptic 

 table on page 594 is bad, the contrasts given 

 under a^ and If are variable and valueless. 

 L. rub7-ipallens separates from oxygale and 

 minorata by the redder color of the fore wings 

 only, not by the degree of black shading on 

 the hind wings. It occurs in the dry regions 

 of Colorado and Utah and I believe does not 

 occur in the wet wooded district of Kaslo. 



On page 610, Himella infidelis is made syn- 

 onymous with Eriopyga conar and marked 

 •* non descr.' I do not object to the synonym, 

 even if I do not agree to it, but the species 

 certainly was described (Can Ent., XXXVI., 

 32, 1904). 



PIarrison G. Dyar. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The leading article in the June number of 

 the American Geologist is entitled ' The 

 Possil Turtles of the Bridger Basin,' by O. P. 

 Hay, who states that hitherto geologists Cope, 

 Powell, Emerson and King considered these 

 beds as lake deposits, but his own conclusion 

 is that they have ' been made almost wholly 

 through river action.' Professor S. W. 

 Williston says, conchiding his article ' On the 

 Lansing Man,' ' I am only confident that the 



skeleton dates from Pleistocene times — and 

 is old.' Professor Warren Upham contributes 

 an article on the ' Age of the St. Croix 

 Dalles,' and G. A. Warpg one on ' The 

 Pegmatyte Veins of Pala, San Diego County, 

 California,' which is illustrated by five plates 

 and two figures. Professor J. A. Bownocker 

 in discussing ' The Salt Deposits of North- 

 eastern Ohio,' concludes ' that Ohio contains 

 enough salt to supply the entire country for 

 an indefinite period.' A paper on 'Mineral- 

 ogical Synonyms' is inserted, taken from the 

 Mineralogical Magazine for May. The num- 

 ber concludes with an interesting editorial by 

 Dr. G. P. Merrill on ' The New Building for 

 the National Museum, at Washington, D. C.,' 

 which is illustrated by a plate presenting the 

 central plan. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



CLEMSON COLLEGE SCIENCE CLUB. 



The 54th regular meeting of the club was 

 held in the lecture room of the electrical 

 laboratory, April 28, at 8 p.m. It was the 

 occasion of the ninth annual meeting and 

 banquet. There were present, in addition to 

 the regular members of the club, delegates 

 from other colleges in South Carolina and 

 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 The program consisted of numbers taken from 

 the preceding programs of the club during the 

 current year, and an informal address on 

 certain phases of agricultural education by 

 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture W. H. 

 Hays. After the regular meeting, the annual 

 banquet was served in the new museum in 

 agricultural hall, and the banquet was made 

 the occasion of the dedication of the museum. 



The 55th regular meeting of the club was 

 held in the lecture room of the electrical 

 laboratory at 8 :30 p.m., May 19. Professor 

 J. S. Newman, under the title of ' Fifty Years 

 of Agriculture,' discussed the advances in 

 practical agriculture within that time, taking 

 a somewhat pessimistic attitude in regard to 

 what had actually been accomplshed. Pro- 

 fessor P. T. Dargan, under the title of ' An 

 Undescribed Method of Demonstrating Hori- 

 zontal Objects,' made a demonstration of his 



