158 Scientific Intelligence. 
The American Naturalist.—The January number of this sci- 
entific monthly comes to us from Philadelphia, where this Journal 
is to be published hereafter by Messrs. McCalla & Stavely. 
Protessor E. D. Cope is now associated with Professor Packard 
in the editorial management of the journal. It has always been 
successful in combining the scientific and popular in its articles, 
and has contributed greatly to scipnoeeducation 4 in the country as 
well as to the progress of geet ; and the Prospectus states that 
this will, be still its aim. It is also announced that the depart- 
ment of birds will be edited by Dr. Coues, and that of micros- 
copy by Dr. R. oe Ward; and that Professor O. ia poe will 
interest, maki an attractive journa mateur as well 
as the man of science. It has for its mata a a beautiful col- 
ored plate of Baird’s Bunting,—Passerculus of Coues,— 
illustrating a paper by Dr. Elliot Coues, U.S. A. Professor J. 
A. Allen has a paper on An inadequate “ The birds’ nests,” 
in which, after stating various facts, expresses the following 
conclusion: ‘“ surprising thing about Mr. allace’s 
‘theory of birds’ nests’ is its inadequacy and its irrelevancy to the 
as proposed to explain; espect it was 
a >a for the Bulletin is only two dollars 
Nests of “ the dener.”—In the Annali ai Stori ria naturale 
ael pt Civico di Genova, the illustrious traveller and botanist, 
Prof. eccari, describes the wonderful gallery or bower-con- 
structions of the Amblyornis inornata, observed by himself in 
the Arfak Mountains. The huts and gardens, as built and laid 
out by this bird, which is called “the gardener,” to surpass 
any production of intelligence and taste for the waniited hitherto 
described and observed in birds of the Paradise family.— Nature, 
Dee. 6, p. 110. 
IV. Astronomy. 
tie Meteors observed in Cambridge, Mass,, November 3, 1877. 
m 
the d same radian. which was near 0 Mars, pea! their directions 
were towards the S.W., all Avene Is to the ‘Mere radiant. 
B.A me Ps. H. 
. Prize for the discovery of Comets,—The ye my 
of aSrideni at Vienna has resolved to continue, un raat notice, 
the prizes, Belecte se Since 1872, for the discovery of telescopic 
of such a prize, consisting, according to 
the wish of the receiver, either in a gold medal or in its money 
