40 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
In reply to an enquiry, Messrs. Tidman & Son informed me 
some time ago that their salt is ‘“made abroad, direct from the sea, 
entirely by solar evaporation, without the application of any artificial 
heat.” I have also heard that salt manufactured at Trepani, Italy, 
and imported into Norway for the purpose of fish-curing, has been 
found to contain living eggs of Artemia. The occurrence of the 
crustacean in the “‘ salterns”’ or brine-pans of salt-works is, of course, 
well known.—W. T. Cauman. 


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“ Puato’s story about the submerged continent of Atlantis has 
again cropped up, this time with some scientific evidence in its 
support. M. Louis Germain, in a recent communication to the 
French Academy of Sciences, draws attention to the existence in 
Quaternary strata in Morocco of many fossil molluscs, including the 
Helix graveli, Germain, of the same species as are still extant in the 
Azores, the Canaries, Madeira, and the islands of the Cape Verd 
archipelago. From this and other evidence of the same nature he 
deduces the sinking under the sea of a continent once extending 
from these islands to Morocco, and gives reasons for thinking that 
the submersion took place in late Pliocene times. It may be so; but 
from the Pliocene Age to that of Plato is a long time, and by whom 
was the tradition handed down?”—(‘ The Athenzeum,’ January 13th, 
1912.) 
THe Second International Congress of Entomology will be held 
at Oxford from August dth to 10th, 1912, and not as previously 
announced. The President of the Congress is Prof. HE. B. Poulton, 
D.Se., F.R.S. All communications and enquiries should be addressed 
to the General Secretary of the Executive Committee, Dr. Malcolm 
Burr, c/o Entomological Society of London, 11, Chandos Street, 
Cavendish Square, London, W. y 
