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gives additional interest to the book. Descriptions of the appa- 
ratus and the modes of capturing and preserving specimens o 
marine sy acta ees are also given. It is an admirable introduc- 
nen to val study of marine zoology. A. E. V. 
inet History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas, a 
Moss ier of the Habits, Architecture and Structure of moe 
nomyrmex barbatus; by Hunry Curisropurr McCoo 0 pp. 
8v0, with 24 Siew ese plates. Philadelphia, 1880, (J. 
Lippincott & Co.)—This volume gives at great length the 
final results of an cuiheaaes study of the life-history et the 
agricultural ant of which s 2, ata were published nearly 
twenty years ago by Backiey ge 3am um. Considerable doubt 
has been expressed in regard to the Prat of these early o 
servations, and Mr. McCook, in 1877, visited Texas for the pur- 
r 
the earlier cues but are far more comp and minute and add 
many new facts to the remarkable history. The present work is 
eminently po piled in style and certainly very readable and 
thoroughly etree though often greta diffuse, and 
eserves a wide circle of such readers a n delighted 
with the sbibewhat similar work of Mo gridge, “e nerreatag Ants 
Trap-door Spiders.” It may add to the interest in Mr. 
yeti volume to call attention to a note, by the Rev. G, K. 
orris, in the American Naturalist for September, p. 669, ascrib- 
nei bacenutiad habits to an ant (a species of Phesdole) in 1 New 
ey. L 
Ill. Astronomy. 
l, allege’ fAaaee R af, the Nebula in Orion; by Professor Henry 
Draper, M.D.—During the night of September 30, 1880, I suc- 
for the ge 
ree rays. The ot ge stand and drivi ing clock I construe ed 
myself. e exposure was for fifty minutes. I intend at an early 
date to publish a pine decries of the negatives. 
pga York, Oct. 2d, 188 
Astronomical Ohare et Rochester N. Y., under the 
Pads of Professor Swirr.—The new Astronomical Observatory, 
ochester, is to have the third acne telescope in size in 
‘aaa The telescope will be twenty-two feet in length and 
its lens sixteen inches in diameter. The Observatory is named 
after Mr. H. H. Wacken: by whom it has been most liberally 
endowed, and its locality is one of the most commanding in 
Rochester. ith Professor Swift as its observing astronomer, 
atory. 
‘great results sea vee expected from the new Warner Observato 
