1876.] Scientific News. 187 
— A careful examination of the papers left at the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion by the late Dr. Stimpson has revealed the existence of the complete 
MSS. of his final report on the Crustacea of the North Pacific Exploring 
Expedition as far as the end of the Anomoura, with beautiful figures of 
one hundred and thirty-seven of the new species. It was supposed that 
these had perished with Dr. Stimpson’s other MSS., and with the collec- 
tions they described, in the great Chicago fire. We trust they will soon 
be published. i 
_ — Among the Swedish contributions to the Centennial Exhibition will 
be a number of articles of a fine red granite, that takes as high a polish 
as the well-known Scotch granite, and among the manufactures of the 
beautiful porphyry found in Elfdal, in the province of Dalarne, will be a 
le belonging to the king, which cost ten thousand dollars. A me- 
teorite, weighing ten thousand pounds, sent by the discoverer, Professor 
Nordenskiöld, will attract notice. From the Hawaiian Islands will be 
sent to the exhibition a model of the islands, made to a scale, showing 
their physical geography and topography, and the mountains, valleys, 
woods, forests, rivers, volcanoes, ete. 
— Major Powell has gone West among the Indians for the purpose of 
obtaining casts of the features of the Indian tribes. He has given much 
attention to collecting linguistic and historical documents concerning the 
Pueblos of New Mexico. 
— Mr. J. Matthew Jones, of Halifax, proposes to publish shortly in 
Psyche a list of the few insects known to inhabit the Bermudas. They 
are mostly of a Floridan or West Indian type. 
— Nordenskiöld reports that at Cape Schaitanskoj, the most northerly 
point on the Jenesei River, Dr. Stuxberg discovered a species of fresh- 
Water snail (Physa). This is the most northerly locality for land and 
esh-water mollusks. 
— Mr. J. T. Humphreys, of Atlanta, Georgia, has been appointed 
State Entomologist of Georgia. 
— Nelumbium luteum, according to a popular writer in one of the 
monthlies, is “ the sacred lily of the East,” is “a beautiful blossom,” and 
“is said to have been introduced into this country from Europe by a 
member of the Gadsden family.” The latter statement is rather dis- 
credited by the writer, who adds that “it grows wild in Florida,” and 
was probably brought to South Carolina by Michaux. All this may be 
put about right by a slight correction: The plant is not the sacred lily 
of the East — meaning the Indian Lotus ; though a large blossom, it is 
hot beautiful ; it belongs only to this continent, and grows wild from 
Florida to Wisconsin and Connecticut. 
hee The sixth Bulletin, second series, of Hayden’s United States Geolog- 
teal and Geographical Survey of the Territories, finishes volume i. for 
1874 and 1875. It contains the following papers : An Account of the Vari- 
us Publications relating to the Travels of Lewis and Clarke, with a Com- 
