Geology and Natural History. 395 
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. Gumeelius, M. J. Stolpe; assistant geologists, V. Karlsson, 
J. G. O. Linnarsson, L. J. Palmgren; actuary, J. E. Bortzell; 
chemist, G. H, Santesson. 
14, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Italy.—The second 
by B. Gas- 
part of volume ii of these memoirs contains a paper 
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for 1873, by A. S. Packarp, Jr., is contained in the Sixth Annual 
Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science at 
Salem, Mass.—The same report contains also descriptions of N. A. 
Noctiude by A. R. Grote, of N. A. Phalenide, by A. S, Pack- 
ard, Jr., besides others of N. A. Phyllopoda by A. 8. Packard, Jr., 
nd y A. E. Verrill. 
to possess on the other side of the Atlantic. Here the principal 
facts, as known up to a recent date, along with those relating to 
plant-climbing and insect-fertilization, are matters of school in- 
struction; and a narrative in The Nation recapitulated what is 
known, and what has been observed in this country especially, 
from the time of Macbride, and later, of Dr. Curtis, down to contri- 
butions of Mr. Canby and Mrs. Treat. Also the curious new dis- 
coveries made last summer by Dr. Mellichamp upon the most in- 
teresting of the Sarracenias, given in full in the New York Tri- 
bune, and in abstract in this Journal, were resented anew, and 
with further particulars, to the American Association, at the Hart- 
i i st; and Mr. Canby supplemented 
these with an account of the behavior of the California analogue 
of Sarracenia, viz., Darlingtonta. : : 
The report which has reached us of Dr. Hooker’s interesting 
dissertation is unofficial and evidently somewhat imperfect, rg 
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presented and are full of interest. Passing by the resuscitation 
of Linneus’ forgotten suggestion that the Surracenia leaf may 
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which he claims Linnzeus as a Darwinian evolutionist !), and t 
