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to this view offers itself, however, in the fact that the precocious 
vernal development was apparent, although less marked, in Zirio- 
dendron and sie of which very few generations can have been 
raised in Euro G. 
R. JOHN Bowes Gray.—A “ List of Books, Memoir and 
Mikosllagons eres ” commenced in Bite and added to up to 
the close of 1873, is Dr. Gray’s own record of his A pub ineetinn 
Mr. J. Sanders has ai paided those of still later date, and printed 
it in an 8vo pamphlet of 58 pages. The total number of papers 
is 1162! Some curious and characteristic notes are interspersed. 
22. North American Oniscida; A. SruxBerG has a paper on 
the North American Oniscida in the Ofver rsigt K. V.-Ak. For- 
handlingar, 1875, No. 2, Stockholm, reviewing the described 
species, oy adding descriptions of several new species. 
Ill. MisceELLANEOUS ScIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1, American Association for the Advancement of Science.— 
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Association was opened 
at - Detroit, = Wednesday, the 11th of August, under the fab 
deney of J. E. Hi ilgard, Esq., of the Coast Survey. An address 
of welcome to the city was delivered at the opening easiest by 
Hon. C. J. Walker. The address of the retiring president, Dr. 
John L, LeConte , Was delivered on ae - evening. hich will be 
nomical observations . ‘determining Tongi s aad latitudes, 8 
In latitude 38° 58’, “ Whe mgiteden ree limit of 
segs was found +6 be at 11 a feet above pig da 
Mosaic Account of Oreati tion, The Miracle of te es 
a . 
720 .12mo. New York, 1875. (J 
Schatmerhors & Co.)—The author, who regards his method of 
interpretation very literal, makes the third day of Genesis, the 
day of t pearance of dry land and the creation of vegetation, 
to include all of geological history up to the Glacial period of the 
a hange in the obliquity of the ecliptic is e 
the event of the fourth day, and the source of the Glacial cold. 
bE me 
hen, with regard to the fiat on the fifth day, “Let the waters 
bring forth,” and that of the sixth, “ Let the earth bring forth,” 
he says: “The waters, during the melting glaciers, were compar- 
