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is too limited to render them a profitable object of industry.— Bul- 
letin mensuel de la Société Impériale zool. @ Acclimatation, 2™¢ 
série, tome iii. No. 7, July 1866.—From the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
se dee 
3, A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; by Davi Hum- 
PHREYS Storer, M.D., A.A.S., etc. Reprinted from the Memoirs 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 288 pp. 4to, with 
39 lithographic plates. Cambridge and Boston, 1867, (Welch 
& Bigelow, and b 
pp. 4to. Philadelphia, 1867. 
dex, as 
the work by his friend James Lewis, M. D., of Mohawk, N. Y., o 
- he adds, “whose thorough knowledge in this branch of 
known.” 
J. Earthqu y 
sapeoin College, Topeka, Kansas. (Communicated for this Jour- 
named States was precipitated in one h g mass into the streets. 
he most juiamsive baildinre swayed back and forth and seemed 
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Teady to fall. A train on the Pacific railroad was stopped, the en- 
‘§ineer eman jumping off under the impression that the en- — 
me was on the point of blowing up, clocks were stopped, and an- 
‘fuals hurried about the fields'in 
, while some stood still in the 
The earthquake was accompanied by a noise. likened by 
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