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by twenty-one woodcuts, and is an interesting and, to some 
minds, will be a conclusive argument against the idea that Eozoon 
is of a ri nature. 
The second part of Whiteave’s volume on the Mesozoic 
fossils of the Geological Survey of Canada has lately been issued. 
It is devoted to a description of the fossils of the Cretaceous 
rocks of Vancouver and adjacent islands in the straits of Georgia, 
pats Columbia. It is illustrated by excellent figures on ten 
Pia 
he Congrés international des Américanistes opened at Brus- 
sels Aaa ae. 23d. The object of the congress is to contribute 
to the progress of ethnological, linguistic and historical studies 
relative to the two Americas, especially before the time of Chris- 
topher Columbus 
e Royal Soili has issued a thick extra volume of the 
al Transactions (Vol. 168) containing a full account 
of the collections, botanical and zoological, made during the 
Transit jf Venus Expedition of 1374-5, in Kerguelen island and 
Rodrigu 
Aaa cae annual Report of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History shows progress in the increase of its collection, and 
especially in the deposits made of large and useful scientific libra- 
ries, which will tend to make the museum useful in advancing 
science. 
— The Swedish Government intends to purchase the house 
and estate of Hammarby, near Upsala, which was the residence 
of Linnzeus during the latter part of his a and has appropri- 
ated for the purpose the sum of 80,000 crowns. 
— There has been established at Wea a laboratory of mari- 
time zodlogy similar to those already formed at Naples and 
Trieste, on the Mediterranean, and at Concarneau, Roscoff and 
Wimereaux, on the Atlantic. 
recent paper states that smoke has lately been seen to 
issue see Mount Hood, Oregon. Is this statement correct; if 
So, will some of our Pacific coast subscribers send us information 
in regard to the matter ? 
— The director of the Central Park Menagerie, of New York 
a reports 486 additions to the collection during 1878, the total © 
r of animals exhibited being 1,0 
— The eminent coleopterist, Dr. J. L. te Conte, of Philadelphia, 
has been elected an honorary member of the Societé Entomolo- 
gique de France. 
e Sponges of the Gulf of Mexico have been elaborated 
by O Oar Schmidt in a work published in Jena. : 
Erratum.—In my notice of Prof. Smith’s Stalk-eyed Crustacea — 
of the Atlantic coast, p. 514 line forty, of the a number of 
this journal, tor Carcinus read — ome 
