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which it arose has been explained to their entire satisfaction.” 
Mr. Ridgway further desires us to state that ‘he is eat to re- 
tract the implication of bad faith on the part of Dr. Coues 
Tue meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of 
Science was held at Lyons from the twenty-first to the twenty- 
eighth of August, under the presidency of Prof. Quatrefages. 
The sections were fifteen in number, comprising among others 
Agriculture and Medicine. There were excursions down the 
Rhone, and to Geneva, with other entertainments. 
Tuer new building of the Indiana State University at Bloom- 
ington, which is to be used principally for a museum, will be 
completed next month, and the Owen collection of between eighty 
and ninety thousand specimens, purchased by the trustees of the 
university three years ago, will be arranged at once. This col- 
lection contains, it is said, a nearly perfect skeleton of the 
Megatherium and many other rare and valuable specimens. The 
trustees have also just purchased a full series of casts from Prof. 
H. A. Ward of Rochester, at an expense of about $7,000, which 
will also be at once arranged in the new museum. 
We learn from ‘“‘ Nature” that Prof. Planchon has been charged 
by the French government with the duty of visiting America to 
study the ravages of the new vine disease occasioned by the plant 
louse, Phylloxera vitifolic. 
M. Coste, known by his elaborate work on embryology, and more 
recent apie in fish raising, lately died in Paris, aged 
sixty-six 
Pror. Czermak, the physiologist, died in Leipzig Sept. 16th. 
Avpany Hancock, the distinguished English anatomist, died 
Oct. 24th. 
Amone Macmillan’s recent announcement of new books, are the 
following: Cave Hunting; Researches on the Evidence of Caves 
respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe, by W. Boyd Dawkins ; 
The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the lower Animals: 
and in Man, by J. Bell Pettigrew; The Origin and Metamorphoses 
of Insects, by Sir John Lubbock, and the Elements of Embryology, 
` by Michael Foster. Mr. R. Hardwicke announces Man and Apes, 
by St. George Mivart. 
