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work in Tennessee the present year. This plan of Director King 
appears to us to be of doubtful propriety, and in fact only defen- 
sible on the supposition that Congress will treble its usual appro- 
priation for the survey. Moreover, the people and legislatures of 
the several States should by no means be relieved of the respon- 
sibility of conducting their own geological surveys at their own 
expense. Mr. King also announces that the work of the survey 
will be restricted, at present, to mining and petrographic geology. 
This is in the line of contraction already anticipated by this 
Journal. 
-— have received the announcement and description of the 
zoological laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences of the Catholic 
University of Lyons extracted from The Contemporain of March. 
It includes laboratories of anatomy, physiology, microscopy, 
drawing ; also museum, aquarium, lecture room, etc. The appli- 
ances appear to be excellent. 
— Prof. Harrison Allen has been elected to the chair of physi- 
ology in the University of Pennsylvania, and has resigned the 
professorship of zoology of the summer course. To this posi- 
tion Dr. A. J. Parker has been elected. 
— Prof. H. C. Wood, of the University of cases Bon: is now 
engaged in physiological studies in Vienna, and Prof. Frances 
Emily White, of the Women’s Medical College, of Philadelphia, 
is in London on a similar erran 
— Prof. W. M. Fontaine has sae elected to the chair of nat- 
ural history and botany in the University of Virginia. 
— The Penn Monthly publishes in its July number an interest- 
ing article, by Edward oan en © on the ariek of animals. 
able to science. 
"he Report of the Fruit Growers’ Association of the Province 
of Ontario, for 1878, has just been received. It contains the An- 
nual Report of the Entomological Society of the Province of On- 
tario, and papers relating to injurious insects, of considerable 
local interest. 
— A general work on the Natural History of the ape eee 
by Dr. Friedr. Knauer, of Vienna, is announced. It will be in 
octavo, with 120 illustrations, 4 maps and 2 plates. 
— H. Holt & Co., New York, a. in press a Zoology for Col- 
pe and Hi Schools, by A. S. Packard, Jr., to be published 
