Miscellaneous Intelligence. 315 
IV. Zoology and Botany. 
e effect of the Glacial Epoch upon the Distribution of Insects in North 
America; A. R. G 
Are Potato Bugs poisonous? A. R. Grote and A. Kay 
Are Insects any pieehpeone aid to plants in fertilization? T. Abie 
Locusts as Food fo n; Pe _¥ 
ee Place ce Ave : how to ‘avert it; ©. V. Riz 
On the method of su ahaning eles TnjoHoris to ‘Agriculture ; t L. LeComrTe, 
Symmetry and want of Symmetry of Leaves; W. J. BEAL. 
Venation of Leaves of Dragon-Root and Martynia compared; W. J. BEAL. 
Additional ee: on the Tarsus and Carpus of Birds; E. S. MORSE. 
Distribution of Batrachia and Reptilia of North America; E. D. Cope. 
Indications of Descent exhibited by North American Tertiary Mammalia; E. D. 
Protozoan rooms W. &. 
On leading divi in Re ake an nd F il Chitonide; P. P. Carp 
A method of f Bleaching Wings of Tenidoeats to eh Nate the ade "of their 
venation; G. Dimmock 
servations on the De Development of Didelphys Virginiana ; W. $. 
Membral Myo ology of Simia Sa: ty rus as compar ared with Man and seit Tigtiee 
as 
Locomotion i in ss Larvee of Oestride; O. S. WESTCOTT. 
peers plant) ; 
On hybernation as exhibited ix in in the Striped Gopher; P. R. Hoy. 
py eae, hes True . G. 
Affinitie: Ancestry of the E Existing Sirenia ; a oo Pf gee 
Notes on ~aeheeeeet 9 and Menopoma; B. dine 
ys on, on the American Ganoids (Amia, Eekena acta and Polyo 
Girictee and Economy of Lamprey Eels (Petromyzon); B. G. W1LD 
The rectal pouch of Sharks vi Skates, os. perhaps alos ie the na adlauiiie 
of Air-breathing Vertebrates; B. G. Wi~p 
V. Ethnography and Archeology. 
¢ similes from farsa of Ancient Rock Sculptures in Ohio, with verbal 
ES amp i a 
Recent Mound iixplorations at Davenport, Iowa; I 
Indian Mounds and Shell-heaps near lata oy§ Mlorida; *¢. GB. canis: 
lifornia ; 
otes iginal Mone any a; 
The Ancient Men of the eat kes; H in 
e hworks near And E. T. Cox. 
of H Pr H 
Arts of Subsistence; L. H. 
ieal Periods : 
; L. H. Morea 
Mound Explorations i in Kent Coun ee ae E. ~ STRONG. 
Archzological Notes from Wyoming; T. B. ComsToc 
2. Foreign Scientific Associations.—The meeting of the British 
Association at Bustel o opened on Wednesday, the 25th of August. 
NM ature, in the number for the 26th, and besos saab ing num- 
ne contains a tended report of the edi 
The F neh ‘Kusoctation i n its session at Nantes on the 19th 
of Au sis and th Tte _ at ‘Pants on the 2 
8. The 3 Britis Scien edition.—A third Report of the 
I oceedin ngs of H. M. 8. Challenger has been issued by the Ad- 
