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corroborate the steady and rapid increase of the marine character 
as we descend, as well as an appreciable difference of the fauna from 
that now ordinarily thrown ashore on ne elta beaches, they tend 
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inconsiderable iaekness: and sv t this anomalous structure of 
of the great river is in direct causal con nection with the 
idan nig phenomenon of the mud-lumps.’ 
The memoir contains, besides a map and sections, three plates 
Prof. Hilgard names, as proba ly new salen a boeaght 
Cardium aquilaterale, and C. ineguila er 
The Question of’ the Gonidia of icles. —The discussion 
4 by the well-known Alternative of De Bary (Morph. and 
Phys. d. Pilze, etc., p. 291), to which Schwendener gave such 
aetna and which Bornet has especially illustrated, has been 
rought at agcuae to what looks vane a conclusion by the obser- 
vations of Dr. Arthur Minks, of Ste 
The early dictum of F ries, t that, owever related the Lichens 
may be to the Alge by their vegetation, they are Fungi as 
regards their fruit, was brought to mind again, more than 
fifty eae iPr by the just cited pregnant remarks of Professor 
e Bary, o the relation of the Nostochaceew and Chrooe 
ats * certain cases even the 
probability of it, can no loepes be mete: the inquiry forces 
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