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well as to the special department of meteorites; and we are grati- 
fied to state that a translation of it has been published i in ay Re- 
port of the Smithsonian Institution for abe ae issu 
£, Me 
i Substances Minérales, par A. Dave re de L Insti- 
Inspecteur Gen. des Mines: one of t 2 * Rappbita s du Jury 
Internationa # te gte sous la direction de M. Michel Chevalier. 
. 8vo. Paris, 1 —This report by the able ae 
iecintied Ores 0 iron; Ores of other metals; Miierels useful in 
the chemical arts; Ornamental stones; other useful minerals ; 
collections of rocks, minerals and ores. Under these heads, the 
materials from the different countries represented are taken up in 
its on conomical and Siege interest. The volume is a val- 
nable collection of facts Pepe to many of the mines and 
useful minerals of the world. 
Ill, ZOOLOGY, 
1. Critical remarks on the Haleyonoid Polyps with descriptions 
of new ae apes in the Museum of Yale College. No. 4; by 
VERRILL.—Through the kindness of Dr. Albert Kolliker we have 
recently fcaieea a large collection of _ prepared by him 
from authentic and original specimens in various European muse- 
ums, including many of the types of species described by Esper, 
Lamarck, Valenciennes, Edwards and Haime, Duchassaing and 
Michelotti, a ete. From an n-examinatio n of these and | other 
gorai set and Haime,=Gorgon terogores 
Mp. 1 2,~Litigorza Verrill, zon Journal, xlv, p. 414, 1868, and 
Trans, Col Acad., 8 
n the work of Edwards and Haime the name, Leptogorgia, was 
applied to an incongruous group, comprising 14 nominal species, 
having searcely any “thing in common, except the slenderness of 
br enchien lack of prominent cells, and a somewhat thin ccenen- 
As : 
WO new names for genera, 
have been included by Edwar d 
that time I had not éxamined evel of the species ‘Telerre 
