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of Pennsylvania, including an endowment for several chairs in 
connection with the medical department ; to the American Philo- 
sophical Society, etc. 
— Prof. Samuel T. Sadtler ie recently rst elected to the 
chair of chemistry in the Department of Arts of the University 
of Pennsylvania. Prof. Sadtler is a native of Pennsylvania, and 
is well known as an expert in the analyses of mineral oils, etc. 
— The Buenos Ayrean collection of vertebrate fossils, exhib- 
ited at the Paris Exposition arrived at Philadelphia by the Indiana. 
It is to be exhibited in the biological department of the Perma- 
nent Exposition. 
— B. Waterhouse Hawkins has been lecturing on vertebrate 
paleontology, in London, this winter. 
— It appears by a paper communicated to the Geographical 
Society of Paris, by M. Jules Garnier, that in the island of New 
Caledonia the usual vegetable productions of the tropics grow 
well on the island, but excepting coffee and tobacco they were 
subject to periodical destruction by invasions of grasshoppers. 
— We have received the Constitution and Record of Organi- 
zation of the State Natural History Society of Illinois, with a list 
of original members, which number fifty-two. This i is one of the 
most active scientific organizations of the West. 
— In the Proceedings of the Zodlogical Society of London, 
lately received Mr. T. J. Parker publishes a note confirmatory of 
Prof. Moebius’ account of the stridulating organs of the spiny 
lobster (Falinurus vulgaris). The noise or gece is almost 
equally audible in water and air. Moebius compared it to the 
sound produced by pressing the upper jasht of a boot against 
a table leg. 
studied from an examination of parasitic and blind animals, as 
showing the influence of a SEY in the environment on the 
structure of the anim 
— Ata recent ee of the London ipl aie 
the Rev. A. Eaton exhibited a piece of “ Kun 
Lake Nyassa district, where, according to Livingstone ane sae 
it is used extensively as food by the natives, who manufacture it 
from large quantities of a minute insect, conjectured to be a 
species of Ephemeride. From an exhaustive examination, poder: 
r. Eaton found it to be a minute representative of the Culici- 
dz, or mosquito family, probably belonging to the genus Core- 
thra. In connection with the subject of insect-food as on by 
