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— Theodore Fischer announces the publication of six of a series 
of Paleontological wall illustrations, which are one hundted ctm. 
broad, and one hundred and forty ctm. high, at the price of twelve 
marks a Lieferung, containing six plates, representing Protozoa, 
sponges, corals, Brachiopods and an_ ideal landscape of the coal 
formation. They are edited by Drs. Zittel and Haushofer. The 
whole collection will contain from forty-five to fifty diagrams, 
comprising seven landscapes, five or six plates of fossil plants, the 
remainder of fossil animals. 
— The Boston Society of Natural History proposes, as a part ° 
of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, to publish a hand- 
some quarto volume containing a series of illustrated articles in 
different branches of natural science, with a sketch of the society’s 
history, The volume will contain several hundred pages and 
many plates. The price of the volume has been fixed at $10. 
— Mr. Defrees, the public printer, will receive until June first, 
orders for the new edition of the Narrative of the Polaris, at two 
dollars per copy. The money must be sent him with the order. 
This is the splendid edition of which extra copies have been sold 
by authority of Congress at ten per cent. above the cost of press 
work and paper. 
_ — Mr. P. N. Seminoff, of the Natural History Faculty of the 
University of St. Petersburg, desires North American Coleop- 
tera in exchange for those of Russia. Any correspondence in 
regard to exchanges can be made through Hon. N. Shishkin, 
Washington, Russian Minister to the United States. 
— Dr. A. E, Foote’s Leisure Hour comes to us filled with use- 
ful information, especially on the subject of mineralogy, It also 
Presents us with the fullest sale list of the publications of cotem- 
porary American naturalists that exists, so far as we are aware. 
= Mr . George A. Bates has established at Salem, Mass., a Natu- 
ralists’ Bureau for the sale of works on natural history, authors’ 
extras of their scientific papers, and specimens. k 
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_ ope our readers will bear these facts in mind and represent them 
m their friends, No popular scientific journal in the world pos- 
