410 Proc. Sci. Soc’s & Selected Articles in Sct. Serials. [June, ’79. 
the Carribean sea by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer Blake, Com- 
mander John R. Bartlette, U.S. Navy, commanding; G. J. Brush, 
On a mineral locality in Fairfield county, Connecticut; J. S. New- 
berry, On the great silver deposits recently discovered in Colo- 
rado, Utah and Nevada. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF 
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—The President, Dr. Ruschenberger 
read an extract from a letter from Dr. Siegfried, U.S.N., descrip- ` 
tive of the aborigines of the island of Botel Tobago. vG 
McCook gave an account of his studies upon the habits "of leaf- 
cutting ants of Texas. 
Feb. 18—The President in the Chair. A paper entitled, On the 
structure of the Chimpanzee, by Dr. H. C. Chapman was pre- 
sented for publication. Dr. Leidy exhibited some specimens of 
Bothriocephalus latus which had been obtained from a Swedish 
woman, this tape-worm appeared ee be very rare in this country, 
being the first he had ever seen. eidy also gave the results 
of his examination of the second chimpanoer, which recently died 
at the Zoological Garden, stating that in this specimen the cere- 
brum fairly covered the cerebellum; longitudinal va/vule conni- 
ventes were found in the middle of the small intestine, and forty- 
five Peyer’s patches were counted. The development of the 
laryngeal pouch was also considered. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, April 7. — Prof. 
Newberry read a paper on the occurrence of gold with the silver 
ores of Nevada 
ril 21. L biot Arnold Guyot presented a paper on the 
topography of the Catskills. 
April 28 —Prof. J. S. Newberry remarked on the devices em- 
ployed in nature for the distribution of the seeds of plants 
Boston Socrety or Naturat History, April 16.— Dr. S 
Kneeland spoke on the mineralized phosphatic guanos of the 
Pacific islands. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
QUARTERLY JouRNAL oF Microscopicar Scrence.—April. Ob- 
servations on the structure of cells and nuclei, by E. Klein. On 
| Nematoid Hemoa of man, by T. R. Lewis (confirms oe: 
son’s discovery of the migration of a human zoon from 
a of a mosquito, and records the iehistory of the 
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