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oides. The bell-shaped shell is perforated by numerous holes, 
out of which stream in all directions the pseudopodia, some of 
which are enlarged at intervals into small masses of protoplasm. 
— The death has recently been announced of Sir Richard John 
Bart., the geologist and engineer, who died in Dublin, 
ed 94 years; of Thomas Belt, an English mining engineer and 
oi well known from his “ Naturalist in Nicaragua,” who 
died at Denver, Colorado, Sept. 22d; and of Prof. Robert Hark- 
ness, who died Oct. 3d, at Dublin. 
— Subscriptions are solicited for a Manual of Conchology ; 
structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, by 
George W. Tryon, Jr., conservator of conchological section of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. Vol. i, Cephalo- 
poda, will be published by the author at Philadelphia, during the 
the coming year. 
— The schooner Florence, of the Howgate Arctic Expedition, 
which returned at the close of October, Congress having failed to 
appropriate money for Polar colonization, brought home valu- 
able collections of specimens and drawings, made by Mr. Kum- 
lein, the naturalist of the expedition. 
— Under the name of Sczence News, Mr. S. E. Cassino, of 
Salem, Mass., publishes an octavo fortnightly magazine of sixteen 
pages, edited by Messrs. Ernest Ingersoll and W. C. Wycko 
It is devoted to general science, physical as well as natural. 
Dr. Kalter, the editor of the Vaea kes Nachrichten, pub- 
lished fortnightly at Putbus a Rûgen, Germany, desires copies of 
papers and articles by North American entomologists for notice 
in his periodical. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA- 
DELPHIA, Nov. 5, 1878.—Thos. Meehan and others remarked upon 
the indigenous character of Calluna vulgaris. 
Nov. 12.—Dr. Jos. Leidy made some remarks on the dis- 
tribution of Chenopodium; he also described some parasites of 
Donax fossor, one of which he named Distomum cornutifrons. 
Meehan remarked on Mitchella repens. Dr. A. J. Parker made 
some remarks on the comparative development of the Island of 
Reil in the brains of Primates. 
Nov. 19.—Messrs. Gray, Redfield and Meehan spoke on the 
evidence in favor of the indigenous character of Calluna vulgaris. 
Drs. Leidy and Evarts made observations upon Gordius, the 
former gentleman ns a new species parasitic in Clepsine 
which he called G. 4 
Dec. 3.—Dr. aay bak some remarks on the rarity of Taenia 
