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have been sold by authority « of Congress at ten per cent above the 
cost of oe work and paper 
ard von Cotta Fund. —A request has been made to all 
the ieoiala’ and friends of Bernhard von Cotta, who died at Frei- 
berg on September 14, 1879, to join in erecting a monument to his 
erected at a suitable spot in Freiberg ; ; the fund is intended for 
the assistance of indigent students at Freiberg, either to enable 
them to take part in geological excursions, or in more extended 
tours, or to facilitate their studies in other ways. The advantages 
arising from this fund are sie e ee ar to all worthy students, 
in responding to this 4 amet The American members of the 
ommittee are: Prof. Brush, New Haven, Ot.; Prof. 
Prime, Philadelphia ; Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, Newport, R.1; 
st R. W. Raymond, New si 
The Naturalist’s Quarterly, Vol. i, No. 1, January, 1880, 
Belew Mass. (Naturalist ee —A idles magazine devoted 
to Natur al History in all its branches. 
Geological Atlas of the 7 States and Canada.—lt 
is paipened by Professor C. H. Hitchcock, as the completion of @ 
lan made some years since, to rt are a geological map of the 
Jnited States. The support of those fuiverested is called for in 
number of ecbedctil "be obtained to cover the expen 
se is the United Sion Centennial Map, re neiaed and com- 
pleted by order of Congress. It is to be 8x13 feet, and will be 
furnished with the geological ne mounted on rollers, at $50, 
or in sixteen sheets at $45 per copy. An explanatory text wi 
ey the map. 
9. M. Dumas. “Nature” has published (Feb. 6) an extra 
number devoted entirely to an account of the life and work of 
M. Dumas, the eminent French chemist. The paper is prep 
by Dr, Hofmann, of Berlin 
1 atum.—-In the notice of ni A pasos Cope’s memotr', © 
page 155 of this volume, the number of species ee in the 
vith “ine should be thirty-seven sustond of seven 
Brain Work and cana eonted by Dr. H. C, Woop, Clinical Professor of a 
vous Disease in in the University of PutinayWailia ete. 126 pp., 12mo. Philad 
phia, 1880. (Presley Blakiston. fe 
The Pathology of Mind; being the third edition of the second part of ye 
, tla and pee ogs. of Mind,” recast, enlarged and rewritten; by HEN 
MAUDSLEY, p., 8vo. New York: 1880. (D. Appleton & Ca.) 
