1 04 L iferaiure — Necrology. 



watching for that exact moment — for the wounded fish darts 

 off at an incredible rate, and makes the foam and spray rise 

 well up over the barrel. This barrel reveals his course, as 

 well as hampering him and wearying him ; and one of the 

 crew now lowers a boat and goes after him, to 'play' him, 

 draw him in, and try to exhaust him. If he can only 

 once get a loop around the slender bottom of that widely 

 forked mackerel tail, he is sure of landing his prey — and not 

 till then. — Hartford Times. 



LITERA TURE, 



Journals Received. — American Naturalist; Bulletin of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club; Botanical Gazette; Journal of the 

 New York Microscopical Society; American Microscopical 

 Journal; Microscopical Bulletin; Naturalists' Companion; 

 Ornithologist and Oologist; Century Magazine; St. Nicholas; 

 Random Notes on Natural History; Bookmart; Journal of 

 Mycology; Hoosier Naturalist; San Diego (daily) Union; 

 Daily San Diegan ; Riverside Enterprise ; National City 

 Record; American Rural Home; San Bernardino Index; 

 Censor; Plain Truth; Scientific American; Pacific Rural 

 Press; Stanislaus Wheat Grower; Youths' Companion. 



Other Publications Received. — Contributions to the 

 Larval History of Pacific Coast Coleoptera. By J. J. Rivers. 



Flora of our South-western Archipelago, — I. By Wm. S. 

 Lyon. 



Names and Addresses of Health Officers in Michigan, for 

 1886-87. 



Proceedings and Addresses at the Sanitary Convention 

 held at Kalamazoo, Michigan, June i and 2, 1882. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State 

 Board of Health of Michigan, for the Year 1885. 



NECROLOGY. 



George Busk, F. R. S., F. G. S., etc., an English naturalist, 

 has recently died. 



Frank K. Rising, of Lena, Illinois, a promising writer on 

 natural history, died June 29th, at the age of 19 years. 



