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render these folios almost matchless as contributions to natural 
science, and to picturesque art for the library or for the parlor 
table. Thė sad death of one of the authors, in early life, and in 
sight of the goal of success, has added an appeal to our sym- 
pathy to the just claims of the work upon public appreciation. 
Miss Jones died last August, of a fever doubtless aggravated by 
her earnest efforts and mental anxiety concerning her work, 
though that portion of her labor already accomplished will be in- 
corporated in the numbers of the publication yet to appear, Miss 
Shulze is engaged with Miss Jones’s parents in the completion of 
the plan in which the two ladies originally joined ; and Miss 
Jones’s name will continue to be appropriately connected with that 
of the surviving col/aborateuse. The present part gives three 
illustrations, being those of the Indigo bird, Cyanospiza cyanea, 
the marsh blackbird, Ageleus phaniceus, and the kingbird, Tyran- 
nus carolinensis, with text of the crow blackbird, Quiscalus @neus. 
The work will continue in parts until the 100 plates are com- 
pleted — Sarah O. Aiken, Washington, D. C. 
ontology we find, 
Stegocephali (“ Labyrinthodontia”) of Mr. Miall incorporated 
bodily; a system, if such it can be called, where all sorts of © 
been “fixed.” The author has profited singularly little by the 
Publications of the General and State Governments of America, — 
but has ody taken as his guide, Prof. O. C. Marsh’s address 
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