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no relation to any other individual, by this means, The change of — 
opinion amongst mycologists is manifested, as much as anything, j 
in the new terms, or the appropriation of terms from other cryp- _ 
ams, now in vogue. Conidia, spermatia, oospores, zoospores, 
pycnidia, protospores, etc., all relate to organs but recently rec- 4 
ized i i. And however much we may qualify the fact, 
however much we may doubt the evidence in special cases, we 
cannot ignore the conclusion that reproduction is very compli- a 
porium, the Alternaria, bottle-shaped cysts, and minute sperma- — 
tia are all so intimately related with a certatn species of Spheria, — 
that they can no longer be regarded as plants with a distinct au- 
tonomy and independent existence, we are unable to explain the — 
relations which one bears to the other, or by what means each ex- 
erts its influence. The field for observation and research is a — 
large one and promises a rich reward; all that is required is ear- A 
nest and careful workers, in which this, of all European coun- — 
tries professing to be scientific, has hitherto been most lamentably 
deficient. How long shall such a reproach continue ?— Popular 
Science Review. 
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INLAND Fisnertes.—The Report of the Massachusetts Com- 
missioners * contains many items of encouragement for those who A 
advocate ng our rivers with salmon, trout, shad, alewives; — 
bass, ete. Indeed the great run of shad in the Connecticut in the 
spring of 1870, has been by popular voice attributed to the arti- — 
ficial hatching of the fish in that river in 1867,—undoubtedly — 
aided, however, by the law prohibiting the small mesh of the pre 
formerly used, which, being only two and a half inches, caught 
the fish of one and two years of age and of course at once ; 
ished the catch of large fish. Under the new regulation a mesh 
of not less than five inches is allowed, and thus only the full 
Dita ayia. a el: 
*Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioners on Inland Fisheries. 8yo pamph. PP: 
77. January, 1871, State Document, 
