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oderms,; ninety-five to the mollusks, one hundred and twenty-five 
to the worms and ninety to the crustacea. Additions to the Echin- 
oderms and others were mentioned. 
The second day’s session was concluded by remarks by Prof. 
Agassiz about ‘Scientific Views entertained upon Theoretical 
Grounds.” Prof. Agassiz’ remarks were a protest against hastily 
adopting scientific theories unsupported by sufficient matter-of-fact 
evidence. He felt more and more the danger of stretching infer- 
ences from a few observations. The manner in which the evolu- 
tion theory in zoology is treated would lead those who are not 
zoologists to suppose that observations have been made by which 
it can be inferred that there is in nature such a thing as a gradual 
change among organized beings, and that the transformation has 
actually been traced. But there is no such record, and it is shift- 
ing the grounds from one field of observation to another to make 
such statements. When the assertions go so far as to exclude 
from the domain of science those who will net be dragged into the 
mire, he thought it time to protest. 
On the concluding day of the session Mr. Alex. Agassiz spoke 
on the Affinities of Echinoderms and Worms, and Prof. Agassiz 
on thé Reproductive Organs of the Selachians compared with one 
another and with those of the Vertebrates. 
Ar a meeting of the Indianapolis Academy of Science, Prof. E. 
T. Cox exhibited a meteorite about four pounds in weight, found 
by Dr. Seville, in 1870, in the plastic clay under a bed of peat in 
Howard County, Indiana, about seven miles east of Kokomo. 
Mr. G. R. Crotcn is engaged in preparing a checklist of the 
Coleoptera of North America to facilitate exchanges and records 
of faunas. It will make a pamphlet of about 70 pages, to cost 50 
cents, and will be published by the Naturalists’ Agency. Sub- 
scriptions are requested that the size of the edition may be at 
once determined on. 
Grorce CatTiin the well known Indian painter and student of 
Indian character and customs, died at Jersey City, on December 
23d, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. 
A reprint of the late Dr. Clemens’ papers ‘On the Tineina of 
North America,” with notes by the editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq., 
has just been published by Van Voorst, London. 
