_ landed in Melbourne, as may meet the requirements of mi ting 
W. H. Arcuer, Hon. See. 
Botany and Zoology. 433 
8. Acclimation encouraged in Australia—We have more than once ow 
had occasion to refer to the remarkable and well directed scientific ac- 
tivity which so eee ft pti iy the Australian colonies, and 
of eaonesiad penn ortance. As there is regular communication ween 
New York and Boston and Melbourne, it may be well to publish here 
the e following advertisement. 
“The Acclimatisation Society o Asean Australia, are willing to 
make purchases of such useful or ornamental birds, animals, and fish 
h 
“The Argus Gold Prize Cup.—The Argus gold prize mat of the value 
of one hundred pounds, for the year 1861, will be given to any one (un- 
connected with The Argus or Yeoman newspapers) who, within the year 
shat 31st October, 1862, * shall introduce into the par the spe 
valuable or interesting Animal, Bird, or Fish, in su umbers 
establish the breed. The decision to rest with the Connell of the Acc. 
matisation Society, subject to the ratification of the Editor of The Argus, 
Application to be lodged with the vat neil of the Acclimatisation So- 
asi igh the 1st of December, 1862.” - 
of West Rock, in the town of Hamden, about three miles N.N.W. from 
Yale Coll lege. On visting this locality June 15, te I se 2 
insects acti d and a record of my o Ss was 
the ae taecetaed. abbey afterward, in the middle or Jane, T 1860, t 
is easy to to detect them. In 1843 Judge Noyes Darling, who had spent 
most lace, told me that ve could personally tes 
pe hs i of t bard ak uaieabowls in 1826, 1809 and he: and 
( ocust 
Rev. Jeremiah Day recently informed me that he oer’ observed four of 
Iti is remarkable that this insect, which exists but a we weeks in the 
state above ground, should live nearly the whole of so long a life 
Au. Journ. Set—Szcomp Suniss, Vou. XXXIII, No. 99.—Mar, 1862. 
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