526 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
of the thallus and fruit of A. Thuretii, the curious parasite on 
species of Corallina, and a similar parasite, M. deformans, is 
rua A pebaed from Australia, A formation of gemme, not 
lsew n the order, is described and figured i in Mel 
ealithannioides, 
The Botanical Collector's Handbook ; by W. Was 
ae (G. A. Bates, Salem.) —This volume forms number three 
of the Naturalist’s Han ndy Series, ead contains full directions for 
the collection of all kinds of plants and their proper ls teed 
a, “ee the arrangment in the herbarium 
by Mr. C. H. Peck on the preparation of fungi. At the end is a 
short account of the principal public herbaria in this country and 
a list of books relating to the floras of different countries. The 
book is illustrated by wood-cuts. Ww. G. F. 
III. MiscenLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Ancient Japanese Bronze Bells; by Epwarp S. Mor 
Mr. Morse described the so-called Japanese bronze bells ‘oebiek 
are dug up in Japan. These bells had been described and figured 
by Professor Monroe in the Proceedings of the New Yo 
Academy of Scienc Mr. Kanda, an eminent Japanese archex- 
oe had questioned oie being bells from their peculiar struc- 
J Morse had seen a number of different kinds of bells, 
ome of somubton ils pecienmorn put none of them approached 
thet so-called bronze bells. Mr. Kanda had suggested that they 
were the ornamen 
Yr, 
able. Mr. Jo hn Robinson, of Salem, the author of a work on 
Ferns, had given the first suggestion as to the Gators use of 
these nacre ‘te had asked why they may not have been covers 
to incense bur 
Suriously parca old incense burners are dug up which —. 
the same oval shape that a section of the bell shows. The bel 
has openings at the base and also at the sides and top, so that on 
smoke of burning incense might escape. It is quite adie that 
the ese objects are neither bells nor pagoda ornaments and this 
suggestion of Mr. Robinson’s may possibly lead to some clue re- 
garding their nao —Abstract of paper read before the Amer. 
Assoc. at Cinci 
se ace ae ong or Lever oteatal re the Handiwork in sient Bone and Clay of 
e Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seabord of America, hy Charles C. 
pnd M.D. 560 pp., dis aan illustrations. Salem, thax S., 1881. (George 
A. Bates).—A notice of this excellent work, and also of the following, is deferred 
to An number, 
Report on the Geology and Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota, by H. 
Newton ved W. P. Jenney: U. 8. Geographical a on Survey of the 
ocky Mountain Region, J. W. — in charge. 566 pp. 4to., with plates and 
a folio ieee. Washington, 1880 
