468 Scientific News. [July, 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science 
will | hold its thirty-eighth meeting at Saratoga, N. Y., opening on 
Wednesday, August 27th next. The permanent subsection of 
chemistry will be continued at Saratoga under the chairmanship 
of Prof. Ira Remsen, of Baltimore. The permanent subsection 
of microscopy will be presided over by Prof. E. W. Morley, of 
Hudson, Ohio, and the codperation of microscopists is requested. 
The permanent subsection of anthropology has united with sec- 
tion B at the late meetings, a day having been specially allotted 
to anthropological papers. A chairman was not elected for the 
Saratoga meeting, but it is understood that this subsection can 
reorganize at Saratoga should the anthropologists present con- 
sider it desirable. In this connection it is proper to note that there 
will probably be a meeting of the American Anthropological 
Association during the association week. ‘The attention of ento- 
mologists is directed to the annual meeting of the Entomological 
Club of the association, which will be held at Saratoga on Tues- 
day, August 26th, at which all interested are invited to be present. 
gn Lintner, of Albany, is president, and Mr. B. P. Mann, 
of Cambridge, secretary of the club. At the St. Louis meeting 
the permanent secretary was directed to call special attention to 
the desirability of forming a new subsection in the association, 
which should be devoted to physiology and anatomy, with the 
special object of inducing members interested in human physiol- 
ogy to bring their papers before the association and also of 
the work of the association. The president of the association is 
George F. Barker, of Philadelphia, and the permanent secretary, 
F. W. Putnam, whose address is Salem, Mass. 
— The following was recently received at the Philadelphia 
- Zodlogical eee by the superintendent. On inquiry it proved 
to be dona 
“Too the Te of the zeoological Garden. 
"Phil Fune 2 79. 
Sir I have Somethinge wich is without any misstack a Grate 
novilty too the public & is no Cost it is a alactrick i wich 
lives in Fire as well as in water it proueduce fire & Sm 
PROFF ro 
— Charles Hallock, Esq., who is the author of several books — 
on field sports, and the editor and founder of Forest and Stream, 
_ the well-known sportsman’s abe has siunt issued a fifth edition 
of his “ Sportsman’s Gazetteer and General Guide,” a most com- 
plete encyclopedia of 92r faa This book has become a 
