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ele A the habits of the mound ant, ee ee 
a common and characteristic ant of the Western pla 
A Polsonous CENTIPEDE—Last winter ss eared a living 
Cermatia forceps in wrapping paper in my house in Providence, 
R.I. It is possible that it came in a bundle eee Princeton, N. J., 
and was not a native Rhode Islander. The Cermatia is the most 
highly developed of all Myriopods; has long sprawling legs, and 
is greenish-brown in color. It has not before been known to 
exist north of Philadelphia, and has been found there to be use- 
ful in destroying insects and spiders.—A. S. Packard, Fr. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.* 
Mastopon, MamMmMotH AND MaAn.—The Rev. J. P. Maclean is 
the author of a small work published in Cincinnati, and entitled 
“Mastodon, Mammoth and Man.” The interest in the public 
mind concerning the contemporaneity of man with the mastodon 
and mammoth, and the inaccessibility of reliable information on 
the subject, induced the author to compile this work. The sub- 
ject of the great antiquity of these animals is not treated here, 
having been discussed more fully in the author’s work entitled “A 
Manual of the Antiquity of Man.” Part first of the volume now 
before us relates to the mastodon ; part second to the mammoth, 
and part third to man. In the last chapter are brought together 
all the instances in which human bones or implements are alleged 
to have been found in conjunction with remains of the mastodon 
or the mammoth. 
RCHAOLOGY AT St. Louis AND PHILADELPHIA.—In the St. 
Louis loan exhibition the department of archeology was well 
represented from the collections of Dr. George Engelmann, 
Messrs. F. M. Perrine, M. S. Mepham, John H. Henderson, 
J- T. ‘Snyder, F. F. Hilde er, C. Croswell, A: J. Conant, Dr. 
Patrick, J. C. Zimmer and the collection of the St. Louis Academy 
of Sciences. Those who had the ape of enjoying the 
hospitality of these gentlemen at St. Louis, last summer, will 
remember the great beauty and value of some of these private 
collections. It makes one shudder to think how much ious 
material may be sported away at the mercy of a single friction 
match. Cannot some plan be devised by which a gentleman of 
taste and means may indulge in the luxury of a private collec- 
tion in a fire-proof building, so arranged that the public ma 
enjoy the sight of it without trenching on private hospitality ? 
n the heels of the foregoing announcement comes a pamphlet 
from our friend, Mr. E. A. Barber, number five of the Official 
Bulletin of the International Exhibition, Fairmount Park, Phila- 
delphia, giving a full description of the department of archeology : 
and ethnology, under his charge. “It is proposed also to estab- _ 
_ 1 Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. — 
