410 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
modification of the early formed chambers by later action should 
be carefully considered before it can be denied that the caves were 
not, in some slight part, for a time, supplied with marine life. 
Until a specimen of Chologaster, or some other member of the 
family, has been obtained in the external waters of the Ohio Val- 
ley, it is hardly logical to regard the family to which the blind 
fishes belong as one originally distributed in the rivers of the 
Ohio Valley, and afterward becoming exterminated in the rivers 
and only existing in two such widely different anaes as the 
coast of South Carolina and the subterranean streams of the 
southwestern States. That marine forms of life are found in our 
fresh water lakes and rivers is known to be the case. The speci- 
men of a shrimp exhibited was secured in the Green River, near 
one of the outlets of the Mammoth Cave. The fact that in some 
of the waters of Florida fishes once marine are now confined to 
take plac 
a recent annonncement of the Gobiosoma found in oon hio River* 
is another instance of a marine fish living in fresh waters. 
5. PILE eed of the Cleveland Academy of Hanae are 
1845 to 1859. 296 pp. 8vo. Cleveland, Ohio. Publis 
gentleman of Cleveland.—The valosbhs papers which were he 
from time to time before the Chaectanal Academy, previous to 
. 8. Ne : 
mto a volume by the Society. The pang — among its 
articles descriptions of species of fossil coal plants by Dr. New- 
berry, and of recent fishes by Dr. Kirtland, with important notes 
3 
6. seen ‘Record of Science and Industry for 1874. Edited 
by Spencer F. Barrp, with the assistance of eminent men of sci- 
ence. 666 pp. 12mo. New York, i875. (Harper & Bros.).—The 
Annual Record for 1874 by — Baird comes well laden with the 
scientific news of the year ong paromingng chapter 
contains a brief review of the weds sac of 
ous sciences, theoretical and industrial; and then en fallow abstracts 
of principles, accounts of scientific expeditions and institutions 
recently established, an obituary chapter, and a list of new works. 
abe book has facts of interest for all classes of readers. 
Putnam, notice of Gobiosoma molestum from the Ohio. Amer. Nat., viii, 
Feb, 1874. 
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