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1876.] Scientific News. 813 
— A course of summer instruction will be given at Bowdoin College, 
Brunswick, Maine, in chemistry and mineralogy by Professor Car- 
michael and Mr. Robinson, while botany will be taught by Mr. F. L. 
Scribner. The Normal School of Natural History will hold a second 
session at Normal, Illinois, Professors Gastman and Forbes are the 
directors. 
— The government of India is making arrangements for an archzo- 
logical survey of the whole country. 
— Dr. A. B. Hoyt writes us from Grafton, N. H., that he saw a bull- 
frog nearly swallow a common striped snake about one foot long. At 
one time not more than five inches of the snake was out of the frog’s 
mouth. > 
— Baron von Nolken, of Riga, Russia, has gone with an assistant to 
Bogota for the purpose of collecting and observing insects. The micro- 
lepidoptera that he collected there on. his previous journey have been 
described. by Professor Zeller, and the work will be published by the 
Entomological Society of Russia. 
— Professor Alpheus Hyatt is now engaged in monographing dis- 
eine forms of fresh-water shells from the famous Tertiary locality of 
Steinheim, and desires to make comparisons with living or fossil shells 
trom other localities. He has already obtained shells in which the nor- 
saia Was more or less distorted or unwound, from two other locali- 
# » Dut wishes to obtain more extensive information, and offers in ex- 
ange suits of Steinheim shells, Valvata or Planorbis multiformis, with 
oo g sixteen distinct varieties. Distorted forms have been here- 
En ERR ‘ found in perfectly still, inclosed basins of limited extent 
aadi a, Information with regard to similar localities is also 
ara dress Society of Natural History, corner of Berkeley and 
streets, Boston, Mass 
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William, — e the old Hudson Bay Company’s Post, Fort 
Prof Wing se meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
referring agg verett read a paragraph from Æschylus’ Prometheus 
Greeks of e thought, to the river Zambesi, and showing that the 
5 Period before that of Herodotus had a more intimate 
raara x nterior of Africa than they have had the credit for. 
as studied the development of the annelid worm, Fabricia, 
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