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had proved by his recent investigations that Fagen ce pet yucce is a but- 
terfly, and forms a new group of Urbicolz ; 
Mr. Scudder exhibited a dissection of perra pallidicornis, to show 
the interior glands corresponding to the prothoracic excretory openings 
to which he had called attention at the previous meeting, when speaking 
of the function of these organs in Anisomorpha buprestoides (Spectrum 
bivittatum) and in Phasmide generally 
Mr. Fewkes exhibited drawings to show the structure and position of 
these glands. Mr. Dimmock exhibited wings of Microlepidoptera which 
had been bleached and mounted as microscopic objects; some of these — 
had been colored after bleaching, so as to show that the scales still re- 
mained 
Troy Screntiric Assocration. — February 21st. - Wm. E. Hagen 
read a paper on the curiosities of gold and gold mining, giving prom- 
inence to those facts that might have given plausibility to the theory of 
the derivative character of this metal. An abstract of this paper will be 
published in another number of this journal. 
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SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.: 
Tae ANNALS AND Magazine or Naturat History. — January. 
On the Classification of Scorpions, by T. Thorell. First Report of the 
Naturalist accompanying the Transit of Venus Expedition to Ker- 
guelen’s Island in 1874 (conclusion), by A. E. Eaton. 
Monty Microscoricat JOURNAL. — February. Remarks on the 
Foraminifera, with especial Reference to their Variability of Form, illus- 
trated by the Cristellarians, by T. Rupert Jones. 
Tae GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. — January. The Swedish Arctic 
Expedition. The Malayan Peninsula, by H. St. John, On former 
Physical Aspects of the Caspian, by H. Wood. Is it Possible to Unite 
the Black Sea and the Caspian? by. D. Ker. The Western Sahara, 
by E. G. Ravenstein (with a map). February. Dr. Beccari’s Recent 
Visit to New Guinea, by H. H. Giglioli. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ScreNcE.— March. Structure of Obolella 
chromatica, by E. Billings. On the Damming of Streams by Drift Ice 
during the Melting of the great Glacier, by J. D. Dana. On Flint 
Implements from the Stratified Drift of Richmond, Va., by C. M. Wal- 
lace. Principal Characters of the Tillodontia, by O. C. ‘Marsh. 
Tue GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. — February. Sketch of the Geology 
of Ice and Bell Sounds, Spitzbergen, by A. E, Nordenskiöld. Remarks 
on the New Hebrides Group, by H. Hosken. 
Nature. — January 27th, and February 3d. Professor Tyndall y 
erms. Professor Nordenskiöld on the Jenisei. 
1 The articles enumerated under this head will be for the most part selected. 
