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Messrs. J. G. Knox and George Goden, Vice-Presidents. Mr. 
Squier generously offered to undertake the printing of the records 
for one year. 
Mr. G. R. Crotch, whose annual synopsis of European Coleop- 
tera we have noticed elsewhere, writes that he is hoping to bri 
out a Nomenclator Zoologicus, which shall be, not a continuation 
merely, but a revision of Agassiz’s ‘ Nomenclator,” and completed 
to the present day. He promises to bring out the Coleoptera soon. 
Such a work, if any one can be found to do it, is invaluable to the 
student, and we hope the proposal will meet with every possible 
encouragement in this country. 
Mr. Crotch’s leisure is now devoted to a study of the Coccinelli- 
dæ of the world. He wants American species, especially some of 
the common yariable species. He would be glad to exchange or 
purchase. He has large numbers of English and European dupli- 
cates, especially in the difficult groups of Staphylinidz and Necro- 
phaga generally, which he would exchange for any American 
Coleoptera. 
Professor A. Rohde gave a very interesting and instructive 
entertainment in Salem, recently, under the auspices of the Essex 
Institute. His Geological Pictures give correct and lasting im- 
pressions, and should be exhibited before every college and school 
in the country. 
The College Courant, copying from the New York Times, has 
given circulation to the story of a “great discovery” near Du- 
buque, Iowa, consisting of a chamber cut out of stone and con- 
taining important relics of a past race, ete. We are sorry that 
our friend, the ‘‘Courant,” has got so decidedly “sold” in this 
story of the “ark and the dove” in America, but it turns out that 
the chamber exists only in the cavernous head of a local editor. 
A Zoological Record Association has been established for the 
purpose of continuing the ‘‘ Record of Zoological Literature” (an 
annual volume containing an abstract of, and an index to, all 
that has been done in zoology during the previous year), which 
has been held in such high esteem by working zoologists that for 
some time past the British Association has been induced to vote an 
annual grant of 100/. in its support. Owing, no doubt, to the fact 
of its utility not being sufficiently known to the public, the under- 
