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The analyses are as follows: (1) by Rammelsberg, (2) by 
Penfield. 
V20; As.0; P20; PbO CuO ZnO FeO H,O SiO, 
) 22°47 0°28 O17 54:03 813 12°62 2°62). = 100-22 
3) 18:95 3:82 O18 54:93 674 12°24 0-06 S105 O12 7 OSs 
8 was shown by Penfield, the mineral is essentially identical 
with descloizite. Whether the fact that it contains copper replac- 
ing part of the zinc entitles it to a ae name is a point about 
which there may be difference of opinio 
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Ill. Borany And Zoouoey. 
1. Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 1. 
Feb. 1884, pp. 59, 8vo.—With this issue Ghia California Academy 
begins a new series of its s proceedings and publications, super- 
seding the Journal, as we suppose, though there is no announce- 
ment of this, 
he contents are distributed under the heads of Zootoey, (a 
single paper, by Miss Rosa Smith, characterizing Squalius Lem- 
mont, a new fish), eS Sncrios, five papers; Microscopic 
SECTION, five papers upon Fung which, there is a certain relief 
in finding outside the dowiiti of botin ny ; AsrRONOMY, six papers, 
or rather notes, by the worthy President, Professor Davidson. 
The title of one of these Suey the cover suggested a stra be 
botanical paper, yet it was easy to make out that “ Intra-Mer- 
 curial Plants” were ane which had dropped a vowel. Lastly 
MINERALOGY, a paper on Colemanite, a hydrous borate of lime, 
vans. 
by Mr. 
The first botanical paper may also seem to have wandered 
afield. I one, on Veatchia ( V. stint rat a 
s of Anacardiacee, by Asa Gray, remarkable for i 
utricular fruit. It had been described by Dr. Kellogg in the 
de r. 
arly me 
bers of the California Academy, upon which he bestowed is col- 
lections in Lower California, it was m 
to correct certain faults of punetuation and the ala misprint 
which more or less mar the s 
Dr. Behr and Dr, Kellogg ste oe forces in the coke ppertses 
of an Anemone pipe which grows on Tamalpais, and which 
several times cole in the California Coast 
Ranges, which Dr Torry first and other botanists since have 
taken for a — form of the Linnean A. remorosa, probably 
with good re 
Dr. Kel ong follows with two new species of Lower California : 
Asirigiiies insularis, have no opinion to offer, and 
Phacelia ixodes, a well marked species, which has also ‘been 
receatty collected by Mr. Oreutt. 
