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Through the kindness of the Brazilian Minister, we have seen 
D ve been presented 
reat curiosity. The resem- 
blance to a snake is wonderfully close, although “the scales and 
cephalic plates,” which Mr. Olivier identifies with those of a par- 
ticular Brazilian snake, exist only in a lively imagination. The 
traced from the body to the woody surface. 
The adopted explanation requires us to suppose that a snake 
bad forced his way between the bark and wood of a living tree, 
in a position exactly under a grub or larva; had perished there 
when within half an inch of its prey; was somehow preserved 
from decay, even to the eye-sockets and the markings of the skin, 
the Whole superficial structure of the animal,—until the animal 
snake. This explanation was suggested by Professor Wadsw 
of Cambridge, examinin e specimen along wi e writer; 
Parisian savants in question—which we are slow to believe—they 
eee less eeely to have been noticed by Sefior Lopez Netto, whose 
or and good faith are incontestable. An @. 
2. Flora Peoriana, Die Vegetation im Clima von Mittel Tlli- 
“ots. Von Frieprich Brenpet.—An imperial octavo, of 107 
— Interesting for contents and very curious in form and ort, 
mg in German, and printed at Buda-Pesth, at the printing-ollice 
of the Franklin Society of that town, and as being a part of the 
Am. Jour, :gaehgeet Srries, VoL. XXV, No. 145.—Janvary, 1883. 
