Astronomy. 401 



ssued, treats of the organs of vegetation of Gastelnavia prineeps 

 V- in Iba/il. ,iii«l two species of D'a-ma from Ceylon; also of the 

 ruetitication of Podostemon, M>. >_!> y-^<V, /a',//-/ and ('astehiaria, 

 vitli 9 plates. The letter-press is in Swedish; but an abstract 



lie is^iow pro- 

 '^n- oil >ot any in the High-school. A. G. 



7. Professor G. L. Goodale, of Harvard University, has re- 

 urned from his year's absence in Km-- ■]■■ ■•, maiulv devoted to a 

 tudyof Botanical Laboratories and Gardens, and has resumed 

 i> work at Cambridge. 



;. Bulletin of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey 



»o. 3. 598 pp. 8vo. Washington, 1 Ssc_\— This Bulletin, the last 

 f the series, — a very valuable series to science — contains the fol- 

 ding papers: Preliminary lists of the works and papers relat- 

 ig to the orders of Cete and Sirenia, by Jokl A. Allen, pp. 

 97-563 ; New Moths with partial catalogue of Noctuaa, by A. 

 k. Grote; New Moths, pri in Maine, with 



otes on noxious species and remarks on classification, by A. R. 



9. On the Young Stages of Osseous Fishes, by Alexander 



III. Astronomy. 



•aVtened^o'the ey 



