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to be present, is Ca,Be,P,O,,+4H,O, which requires: phosphorus 
pentoxide 43°23, beryllium oxide 15°34, lime 34°13, water 7°30=100. 
Obviously, however, the material employed was too scanty to 
make the results thoroughly satisfactory. It is much to be 
desired that a new analysis of the Stoneham mineral may be 
j R. 
14. Deep-sea Fauna.—In his address before the Biological 
Section of the British Association at Montreal, H. N. Mose.ey, 
Esq., President of that Section, and one of the Naturalists of the 
Challenger Expedition, states as a striking characteristic of the 
eep-sea fauna, the absence of Paleozoic types except among repre- 
pelagic species are often larval in form, favors the idea o 
eing ancestral; and he infers, thence, that by later modifications, 
the pelagic forms became adapted to the rougher littoral condi- 
am and from the littoral distribution later came the deep-sea 
ife, 
15. Linnean Society of New York, vol. .—This second vol- 
ume of the N. Y. Linnean Society contains two papers by Dr. C. 
- Merriam, on the Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region (con- 
cluding the Mammalia), and a description of a new genus and 
Species of the Sorecide, Atophyrax Bendirii. The latter is illus- 
trated by a plate. The shrew was obtained by Captain Bendire 
about 18 miles southeast of Fort Klamath and a mile from Wil- 
liamson’s River. It is one of the largest of the Shrews 
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London, at the ripe age of 84. An account of his life and 
Sclentifie work may be expected in a future number of this 
Journal. 
IV. MiscenLaANrgous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
all those estimated to be of the first six magnitudes. The obser- 
vations comprised 700 series and included 94,476 separate com- 
