230 Scientific News. . { March, 
years. The society owes its large collection of bird’s eggs, and 
many of its choicest native birds to his labors 
— Volume x of the new edition of the Encyclopzdia. Brit- 
tanica just issued from the press, contains a long and elaborate 
article by Prof. Archibald Geikie on Geology. It is nearly as 
article in the Encyclopædia contains several sections, namely, 
the Cosmical Aspects of Geology, Geognosy, an inquiry into 
the materials of the Earth’s substance, Dynamical Geology, 
Structural Geology, Paleontological Geology, Stratigraphical 
Geology and Physiographical Geology. Like all the former 
works of Prof. Geikie, this article exhibits marked originality and 
great literary merit. ere are very few writers on scientific sub- 
jects on either side of the Atlantic who possess a more masterly 
use of the English language. 
— We have received the first number of the American Ento- 
mologist, Vol. 1, new series, edited by C. V. Riley and A. S. 
Fuller, and published by Max Jeegerhuber, 323 Pearl street, New 
York. It worthily continues the first series of this journal which 
was suspended nine years since. The number is replete with 
entertaining and popular matter most useful to farmers and hor- 
ticulturists, and deserving of the widest circulation. Articles on 
the hibernation of the cotton worm, by C. V. Riley, from advance 
sheets of Bulletin 3 of the U. S. Entomological Commission; on 
the food-habits of thrushes, by S. A. Forbes, and others of not 
less interest, with a number of shorter notes and paragraphs, 
render the contents varied and interesting. 
— The grand Walker prize of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, founded by the late Dr. William J. Walker, and be- 
stowed every ten years for excellence in original biological work, 
was, in January last, awarded to Professor Joseph Leidy, of Phila- 
delphia. Weerneed hardly say that the award will meet with the 
warm approval of every naturalist in the country, as Dr. Leidy, by 
his contributions to the comparative anatomy of both the Inverte- 
brates and Vertebrates, to Vertebrate palzontology, his studies 
on the Protozoa, the intestinal worms, and the work he has done 
in other directions most justly entitle him to this prize, which is a 
substantial one, amounting to $1000. 
_— We have been delayed in noticing the second contribution » 
from the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archzology of Princeton 
College, which embraces a topographic, hypsometric and meteor- 
ones report by William Libby, Jr, and W. W. McDonald, 
the Princeton Scientific Expedition 7 Colorado, Utah and | 
Wiyeaiias undertaken in 1877. The report is of very consideras 
ble value and contains a number of excellent ehgoenny of the 22 
mountain zor i 
