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cheese proved no longer cpt recollecting the feast on dead 
flies in the attic, dead grasshoppers were su pplie ed from the gar- 
much for 
ced ag appear to have been thoroughly oe nor has 
the e since been —_— with them.— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci 
Philodelphia 1877, p. 3 
8. ‘arboniferous pooiee’s tes of Illinois.—At the Baten, 4 
the Boston Society of ren History for December 5, 1877, 
S. H. Scudder showe rawings of interesting Argoeietes 
from the pad sae ‘eke of Illinois. The first represented a 
Species of white ani, showing a wing without reticulation; the 
second, the terminal scinneiis of a eriiacent belonging to a genus 
allied to Dithyrocaris, but which he had at first taken for some 
extraordinary form of insect. 
A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, by 
Tuomas H. Huxtey , F.R.S. 596 pp. 8vo. (New York: Apple- 
ton & Co.)—The best and latest students’ manual of the inverte- 
brates in the English language. 
0. Nomenclature in Zoology and AR by W. H. Dat, U. 
5. Coast Survey.—Mr. Dall, as chairman of the committee of the 
American Association on Zoological Nomendlaturs has been doing 
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principles of cislogioa! and botanical nomenclature into one sym- 
metrical system. Mr. Dall’s statement of this og is a great 
twenty-four days, but gra adually regained its usual powers an 
- habits of flight, and its ability to feed itself and drink. Only one 
such case is on record. He argued for the propriety an 
hess of such operations from the acknowledged gee ey waieteabie 
ties of the science—Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., Feb. 1, 18 
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Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S. the Canadian epheat te yol. ¥ 
first. series will be found firs on the earthquake of October 17, 
