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nis subject being ‘The History of the Earth 
and of the Moon.’ 
At the last meeting of the Zoological Society 
of London it was reported that the additions to 
the Society’s menagerie during the months of 
August, September and October were 435 in 
number, amongst which special attention was 
called to a male and two females of a large deer 
from the Altai Mountains, probably referable 
to Cervus eustephanus, and apparently dif- 
ferent in species from any deer previously ex- 
hibited in the Society’s gardens, and also toa 
young male of the Caucasian wild goat (Capra 
caucasica). The total number of visitors to the 
Society’s gardens during the months of August, 
September and October was stated to have 
been 278,253, representing an increase of 
55,288, as compared with the number for the 
same period in 1896. From this source alone 
an increase of £1,344 19s. had been received 
during the same period. 
Mr. L. O. Howarp, of the Department of 
Agriculture, has been studying the work of the 
Massachusetts Gypsy Moth Commission in the 
neighborhood of Malden and Medford, with a 
view to the preparation of a special bulletin of 
the Division of Entomology, describing the 
process of extermination employed. Agent 
O. A. Hubbard, of the Committee, has been 
temporarily detached and detailed by the State 
Board of Agriculture to study the region in- 
fested by the brown-tail moth and warn prop- 
erty holders of the danger and the need of 
using active measures for its destruction. 
Mr. H. A. MorGAn gives, in Bulletin No. 48 
of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, some interesting observations on Trissolcus 
murgantix, an important parasite in the eggs of 
the harlequin cabbage-bug in Louisiana. He 
finds that eggs of the cabbage-bug pierced by 
the parasite on July 20th produced adult para- 
sites on July 30th, showing the entire life cycle 
of the parasite to be ten days. In August 60% 
of the eggs of the harlequin bug contained 
these parasites. Experiments are being con- 
ducted with a view to the introduction of this 
parasite into Kentucky and Ohio. 
SINCE the Medical News was removed to New 
York, giving that city three of the four leading 
SCIENCE. 
LN. S. Voz. VI. No. 153. 
‘medical weeklies of America, the scientific and 
medical men of Philadelphia have felt the need 
of a good weekly journal. This will be filled 
after the first of January by the publication of 
the Philadelphia Medical Journal, to be edited 
by Dr. George M. Gould, and published by the 
Philadelphia Publishing Company, with a capi- 
tal of $30,000, which we understand has been 
fully subscribed. The trustees consist of the 
leading physicians and medical professors of 
Philadelphia, the different schools being duly 
represented. 
L’ Intermediare des biologistes, the plans for 
which we announced sometime since, has now 
begun publication, the first number being 
dated November 5th. It will be published 
twice a month, and the present number con- 
tains twenty-four pages. In addition to an 
introduction we find a short article by M. 
Marey, advocating the plan brought forward by 
him at the recent meeting of the French Asso- 
ciation in favor of an international control of 
physiological instruments; forty-six questions 
to which replies are requested; the contents 
of the special journals of zoology, botany, physi- 
ology and psychology and short descriptions of 
three instruments. The journal throughout 
shows the psychological interests of Professor 
Binet and his associates in the editorship. In 
the introduction it is stated that a complete 
bibliography of the literature, so far as it is 
contained in other journals, will be given, but 
we think that the magnitude of this under- 
taking is scarcely realized. The series of ques- 
tions isa feature that has, perhaps, not been 
undertaken in a scientific journal and may 
prove of value. Among the 34 ‘ collaborateurs’ 
there are two Americans, Professors Minot and 
Baldwin, and one Englishman, Dr. Sherrington. 
The price of subscription for America is 12 fr., 
to be sent to the publishers, Schleicher Fréres, 
Paris. 
THE last issue of Industries and Iron states 
that it is the first newspaper produced in 
Europe by the aid of the Lanston Monotype 
type-casting and composing machine. The 
whole of the matter in the body of the paper 
has been printed from types composed and 
justified into lines on the keyboard machine, 
