78 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
(4) From the description and figure (pp. 440, 441) of what pur 
ports to be a typical Teleostean brain, the following inferences are 
inevitable: bony fishes have neither ‘thalami nor olfactory lobes ; 
the “ hemispheres” are the most anterior pair of lobes, and are 
similar to the true hemispheres of Batrachians. As to the optic 
brate 
against the more obvious signification of the following amis 
upon page 440, “In front arise the very large and conspicuous 
optic nerves. 
n view of the unsatisfactory nature of our knowledge of the 
brain of some eee employing as a basis the admirable 
paper of the late J effrie s Wyman upon “The Nervous System of 
ana pipiens.” Attention should be called to the = sete in 
frogs and toads the olfactory lobes, by a rare exceptio e in 
contact upon the middle line. The brains of Men a ata ‘and 
perry which especially adapt it for dissection as a typical ver- 
te. 
IV. MiIsceLLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Centennial sale the ope ges: Academy <A Arts and ae 
The American Academy, (Boston and Cambridge), which received 
its charter from the Race eens h of Maaautitcmettactl in ecMagy 
1770, celebrated its hundredth anniversary on the 26th of May 
last. Invitations had been duly sent to all the Associate Fellows 
ache a in other States, and to its 70 Foreign Honorar _Mem- 
were iepheeniod % rane ily the American Philo- 
es members, and one, aan Cambridge Philosophical 
Society, sent a re presentative, Prof. — a Fell 
uel Callers, the college of John Harvard 
