506 Scientifie News. [ August, 
increasing the means of information in American Archeology and Eth- 
nology. The“ State Archeological Society of Ohio” will provide rooms 
for the Convention, and the first meeting will be held in the Ohio Build- 
ing, at two o’clock, P. M., September 4, 1876. Those proposing to attend 
are requested to notify the Chairman of the Ohio Committee, Rev. S. D. 
Peet, Ashtabula, Ohio. At the meeting of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, at Buffalo, N. Y., August 23d, a Subsection 
of Anthropology will be formed. The Convention has been appointed 
near the close of the sessions of the “ Association ” in order that those 
who desire may conveniently attend both meetings. 
— Messrs Longmans, Green, & Co., have recently published An In- 
troduction to Animal Morphology and Systematic Zodlogy. Part I. 
Invertebrata. By Prof. Alexander Macalister. Macmillan & Co. 
have published The Geographical Distribution of Animals, by Alfred R. 
Wallace. 2 volumes, 8vo. 
— The Third Bulletin (vol. ii.) of the United States Geological and 
Geographical Survey of the Territories has the following table of con- 
tents: Notes descriptive of some Geological Sections of the Country, 
about the Head-Waters of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, by F. 
V. Hayden; Notes on the Tertiary and Cretaceous Periods of Kansas, 
by B. F. Mudge; Notes concerning a Contour Map of the United 
States, by Henry Gannett; The Flora of Southwestern Colorado, by 
T. S. Brandegee; Brief Synopsis of North American Earwigs, with an 
Appendix on the Fossil Species, List of the Orthoptera collected by 
Dr. A. S. Packard in Colorado and the Neighboring Territories during 
the Summer of 1875; Notice of a Small Collection of Butterflies made 
by Dr. A. S. Packard in Colorado and Utah in 1875, by S. H. Scudder; 
Notes on the Grammatical Structure of the Nez Percés Language, by 
George Ainslie. ; 
— The Appalachian Club of Boston issued the first number of its 
journal under the title of Appalachia, about the middle of July. It 
contains a sketch map ‘of the White Mountains, profile of T rapyramid, 
with other papers, and the proceedings of the club. n 
— Dr. Kidder’s contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen Isl- 
and, made in connection with the United States Transit-of-Venus Expe- 
dition, in 1874-75, contains articles on the eggs of birds, by Drs. J. 
Kidder and E. Coues; on the botany, by Dr. Asa Gray; geology: 
by 
Drs. F. M. Endlich and Kidder; on the mollusks, by W. H. Dall; the 
. ta- fie 
insects, by Baron R. Ostensacken and Dr. H. A. Hagen; the crus” 
ceans, by Prof. S. I. Smith ; the annelids and echinoderms, by oat 
A. E. Verrill... The number concludes witha study of Chionis sa 
with reference to its structure and systematic position, by J. H. BY 
and Elliott Coues. the 
— We have received a folio pamphlet of twenty-four page® eer 
invertebrate animals of Trayemiinder Bay, by H. Lenz, being sid 
