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swimming bladder.——The fauna of the Solomon islands has 
been discussed by Mr. E. P. Ramsay, several new birds being 
described ; 120 mammals and about fifty species of insects were 
collected for the Australian Museum, of which Mr. Ramsay is 
the collector. The fossil head of a Rhinoceros ticorhinus has 
been found in Siberia in a good state of preservation ——A nother 
fossil mammoth has been found at Newburgh, N. Y. The 
metamorphoses of the cantharides (Lytta vesicatoria) from the 
„egg has been worked out by M. Lichtenstein, of Paris ———The 
body-cavity of sedentary Annelids has been studied by M. Cos- 
morici, and the anatomy of an Actinia, Cerianthus membranaceus, 
has been investigated by Von Heider——The genus Squilla is 
now know to date as far back as the London clay, and Mr. Wood- 
ward,.the discoverer of the fact, describes Mecroscilla wilsoni, a 
supposed stomapod Crustacean from the middle coal measures, 
and a fossil king crab (Zizmu/us) from the cretaceous formation of . 
the Lebanon. Collections of birds have lately been examined 
by London ornithologists, from the Argentine Republic and the 
United States of Columbia, the latter collection comprising 3500 
specimens, representing 469 species. A collection of land 
shells, of which ten or twelve are supposed to be new, collected 
by the late Dr. W. M. Gabb, in Costa Rica, has been reported 
on by Mr. G. F. Angas. A. young hippopotamus has lately 
died in captivity of trichinosis. Immense swarms of butterflies 
ave been witnessed at Le Mail and in Alsace, June 8th and 
oth, and June 7th in Zurich. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .! : 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—The first number of Matériaux for 
1879 is one of unusual interest to the general reader. n page 
22 is a report of a discussion before the Geological Society of 
London, on the mammoth in space and time. On page 31 is 
given a series of stone implements from Japan. On page 33 M. 
Maret presents the results of diggings in the grotto of Placard, 
Charent, Figure 18 represents a cresent-shaped implement from 
the horn of the reindeer, use ‘undetermined. We beg to suggest 
that the object is drawn upside down, and that it resembles ve 
closely the bone deadeyes used on Eskimo Kyaks for running 
lines; in other words it is the parent-of our- modern block for 
tackle. On page 46 we have the announcement of the meeting 
of the Congrés international d’Anthropologie et d’Archedlogie 
préhistorique at Lisbon, in 1880, and the programme of M. 
Daly’s Course of Ethnology for 1880, at the School of Anthro- 
pology in Paris, as follows: 
I. Les sciences anthropologiques. Définitions. L’ethnologie 
et l’ethnographie. Eléments statiques et dynamiques. 
Sources de l’ethnologie. Anatomie et physiologie individuelle 
1 Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
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