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Tertiary Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country. By F. B. Meek. (U. S. Geological 
Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hayden in charge.) Washington, D. C. 1876. 
4to, pp. 629. 45 plates. 
A Monograph of the Geometrid Moths or Phalenide of the United States. By 
A. S. Packard, Jr. (U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hayden in 
charge.) Washington, D.C. 1876. 8vo, pp. 607. With 13 plates. 
On the Geology of Portions of our Western Territory visited in the Years 1871, 
1872, and 1873. By G. K. Gilbert. (Extracted from vol. iii. of the U. S. Engineers’ 
ports of Explorations and Surveys west of the 100th Meridian, Lieut. G. M. 
Wheeler in charge.) Washington. 1876. 4to, pp. 20-187, 506-681. 
n the Geology of Portions of our Western Territory visited in the Years 
1872 and 1873. By Edwin E. Howell. (Extracted from vol. iii. of the U. S. En- 
gineers’ Reports, etc.) Washington. 1876. 4to, pp. 231-3 
Birds of Southwestern Mexico, collected by F. E. Sumichrast. Prepared by G.N. 
Lawrence. (Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 4.) Washington, D. C. 
1876. 8vo, pp. 56. 
Classification of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources of the United 
States, etc. By G. Brown Goode. (Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 6.) 
Washington, D. C. 8vo, pp. 126 e 
Zur Naturgeschichte der Daphniden. Von Dr. A. Weismann. I. Ueber die Bil- 
dung von wintereiern bei Leptodora hyalina. Leipzig. 1876. 8vo, pp- 64. 3 plates. 
Report on the Geology and Gold Fields of Otago. By F. W. Hutton and G. H. 
F. Ulrich, ete. Dunedin. 1875. 8vo, pp. 244. 
On a New Crinoid from the Cretaceous Formation of the West. By George B. 
Grinnell. (From the American Journal of Science and Arts, xii, July, 1876.) 8vo, 
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Contributions to the Flora of Iowa; a Catalogue of the Phenogamous Plants. By 
J.C. Arthur. Charles City. 1876. 8vo, pp. 43. : 
Taxidermy without a Teacher. By Walter P. Manton. Illustrated. South 
Framingham, Mass, 1876. 12mo, pp. 41. 50 cents. . 
nnual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, ete. Toronto. 1876. 
8vo, pp. 54. 
The Mineral Wealth, Climate and Rainfall, and Natural Resources of the Black 
Hills of Dakota. By W. P. Jenney. Washington, D. C. 1876. 8vo, pp. 71. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY:! 
Nores on Acnrpa.—Dr. John Mitchell, one of the very earliest 
of our botanists, in a zodlogical and botanical memoir which he sent 
fom Virginia in 1741 to Sir Hans Sloane, in London, and which 
Sloane had published soon after in Acta Acad. Nat. Cur., at Nuremberg, 
characterized the genus Acnide. Linneus, in adopting it, changed the 
orthography to Acnida, for no reason which would now be thought 
suficient; but the difference is unimportant. Acnida cannabina was the 
Linnean species. 
th Michaux’s Flora a second species was characterized, A, rusocarpa, 
with obtuse-angled rugose fruit. This specific name was somewhat puz- 
aling, Willdenow took it for a misprint of ruscocarpa ; but Sprengel 
1 Conducted by Pror. G. L. GOODALE. 
