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a moment’s warning of the catastrophe, as they have turned a little 
aside, but they are the exceptions. The fry are from one-half to 
three ~gwhela of an inch long and upwards. 
“The herring, or those without eM are chiefly marine, but they 
run into feat water to deposit ome spawn in the spring of the 
year, and then return to salt waters. The young run Racha to the 
sea in autumn and remain there till old enough to The 
size of the fry of the Rocky Mountain herring indicates that they 
had not long left their spawning ground, while the abundance of 
adu wos ee that they were not far from salt i; their native 
elem To believe then that the locality from which the specimens 
were ane was neither far from fresh nor far from salt ep Re is 
conde ns are prefer still and muddy ge ese <i often 
i ly salt. This h 8 
The genus Clupea Roa from the © Upper ioe u aed bei ing 
abundant in the slates of Lebanon and Monte Bolca, while 
e 
and ay: genus 
6 | 
Lhe position of these fishes, 7,000 ~ = the level of the sea, 
furnishes another illustration of the extent of the elevations of 
regions once connected with the ocean, yor the comparatively late 
period of geological time at which, in this case, this elevation 
took place.” 
The fossil Insects were examined by Mr. Sauven H. ScuppER, 
of Boston, and he has kindly prepared the following short but very 
ee note. The insects were found in the same locality with 
e 
ermined. 
The larger fly, of which we can distinguish almost the whole of 
the body, though but little of the wings, evidently belonged to 
