104 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The Lyceum of Natural History of New York has lately started for- 
wards with renewed vigor, and now issues its ** Proce dings," as well as 
* Annals." Three signatures of the ** Proceedings” (from pages 1 to 44), 
have been received, and contain abstracts of several interesting papers 
read at the meetings in April and May last. 
Gradually the unpublished results of the labors of Dr. T. W. Harris 
are being given to the public. Mr. P. R. Uhler, of Baltimore, has ready 
for publication by the Boston Society of Natural History, descriptions 
of the Hemiptera of the Harris Entomological collection. 
Congress is about to print an entomological report by Townend Glover, 
the entomologist of the Agricultural Department. It will form an ex- 
ceedingly useful work, and will deserve the widest circulation. 
e well-known Paris dealer in insects, M. Deyrolle, took flight to 
London with his immense stock of insects, before Paris was actually 
invested. 
Mr. J. A. McNiel, who has made two expeditions to Central America, 
is now in Philadelphia preparing for a third Archeological Excursion to 
Nicaragua. 
Prof. O. C. Marsh of Yale College, has just returned, with his party, 
from the Rocky Mountains. The Expedition started in June last. 
All our French exchanges, months ago, were suspended. 
ANSWERS TO ee 
D. H., Tuscaloosa, Ala.—The larva taken from oak wood is the Oak-tree Borer 
(hiie one) one of the silk worm family | f peer ). It often spa — to 
the red oak, t h the moth, : large ash gray species, is npp ively ra 
C. E., Cin deum — Å light droles, such as is described o; and P IL 
25 Vol. i n ae the gro will answer your purpo: a "MGE quete — E o 
wit five- reca window “a hollo or fishing lead to sink the dre In 
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red ta nt mL I out soep- minute w iah and small PORDO suc 
wakes tons and e éspecialiy the larger shelled forms, such as Lymnadia, Estherea, etc. 
E. S. M., Mitchel ll, Ind. Your photo; h is that of tabo Tityus male. Ap 
would be Mu pecca for eni he Museum or the Academy. j 
H. G., Detroit. — We reque r to your question from a „physiol "ed of 
the highest standing, and d have poberie] the fo llowing in reply: “ The subject is a very 
important o A re often called upon to decide whether a fron — 
is or is not de ^ Man ries vuibubiantie M microscopists ha p full confidence that no i] 
is easier than to de cide the Kegs atter by looking through their instruments, until they fin 
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ha er. 
ui d is easily distinguished «m that of m pen ma pee birds, reptiles 
un fishes, by the size and m of the globules; and te ofh chemical and micro- 
osed m 
however successful it may have once been in the hands of some e as not, after 
many years, come into use, and. MAE of the size and appearance of the globules also 
fails, as the globules of some o f the domesticated animals offer the same character- 
istics as those of man.” 
