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charge of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, which is assumed by 
ee Goodale. 
7. Prof. J. G. Acarnpu has resigned the chair of Botany at the 
University of Lund. Dr. & W. U. Areschoug has been appointed 
is successor, 
8. P. van Tineuen is appointed Professor of Vegetable aye 
and Physiology at the Jardin des Plants, ni aris, in the ¢ 
vacated by the — of Brongniart some year 
. Dr. Opoarpo Brccarr succeeds to the Inte Prof. orton 
as Professor of “Botany and Director of the Gardens at Flore 
ongien des Meerbusen von Mexico,. von Oeaiak 
Scuspr. 4to, ist Heft, with four plates. Jena, 1879.—This 
memoir relates to sponges ae by the dredging expedition of 
the steamer Blake, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz. 
The ye opane sin ‘leetate the forms and pidals of man 
species 
IV. MisceLLANeous ScreNnTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Catalogue of Scientific Serials, from 1633 to 1876, by 
_— EL H. ScuppEr. 358 pp 8vo. Cambridge, Poe of 
as been pre . 2 
auspices of the Harvard College Library, by Mr. Scudder, assistant 
Librarian; and Be is a result of a vast amount ‘of jabor and en 
: ns interested in the progress of science will find 
an invaluable vompall ion. The titles are arranged alphabetically 
under the heads of each of the States or Countries from which they 
no disappointment. 
2. A Sketch of Dickinson College, papers igen Adee by 
Cuartzs F, Hires, Ph.D., Professor of Nat Science. 156 pp. 
12mo, illustrated by engravings, oo ene amas executed in 
the Lab oratory. Harrisburg, 1 he History of Dickinson 
ubjec 
f. ‘Bua s Sketch, * contains, sae its * photographie 
ne 
- Re with figures of the air-gun and urning glass w 
