70 Scientific Intelligence. 
record of the quarterly rains at Lisbon for sixté€n years, which is 
have embodied, together with the observations at eat 
Hospital for the same pee = — following tables. 
urements are given in millim: 
I.— Quarterly Rain-fall at Lisbon. 
Years. Winter. Spring. Summer. Aw 
7 
870 305°7 
hand 275°2 
It 
197 2 
the lightest at Philad 
8'5 
a 
for) 
= 
27-9 
tumn. Total 
5 
104274 
599°1 
599° 
6769118 
557-2 
550° ‘91869 
753° 4 ‘Mean Q14°6 
appears, therefore, that the heaviest rain-falls 
elphia, are usually in 
Il.— Quarterly Rain-fall at Philadelphia. 
Years. Winter. 
1 
1865 
1866 
1867 
1868 225 
870 
the Autumn and “Win 
at 
The m 
Autumn. 
Lisbon 
Total. 
1056" 
925'1 
1160°3 
1038:9° 9 
15016 
11245 
12076 
54:1 
1173°6 
115073 
ter semester ; the heaviest at Philadelphia and the lightest at Lis a 
bon, in 
station, it was below the average at t T. 
6. Discovery of the Animal of the Spongiade confirmed ; By — 
J. Carter, FR. C. n. ce oe | 45). Just 
S. 
a line to tell you what 
e Spring and Summer 
t you will 
the sponge-cell, and much m 
It is, 
: ‘Anuals’ 
now all confi 
a — 
I have not only fed the sponge with snipe, 
so fed w 
ow shows all the cells “(onociiated) with the 
cilium pico id the indigo still in the 4 
This, I think, will break gis Sastre on which is a8 
inative and incorrect as it i 
“ Magosphera,” 
the moment, 
afterward, an 
Ima 
in. 1857. 
rmed 
ut the 
In ten years out of the aixtea s 
when ‘the rain-fall of the entire year was above the average at on 
be 
d I am astonished n 
sponge 
too, is an 
put int 
spirit 
g lad to learn, viz. that I have 
confirmed all that Prof. James Catt of Boston, has stated about — 
too. 
after all, onl what was published ~~ illustrated in the 
n at the accuracy 
and detail of that porct ree Ultimate Structure of "Spongilla, ” &e.)s 
by an examination of a marine caleare 
and bears ee all at 
directly 
in the ‘ Annals’ (808), and 
o a8 the ameeboid cell which inhabits th 
ous 
ucus” 
