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posed, from its size, to have been immature, whilst the interpre- 
tations, figures, and descriptions of the parts by the older authors 
are necessarily unsatisfactory, owing to their lack of comparative 
knowledge. . 
ZOOLOGICAL News.—A new class of marine silicious Rhizopods, 
called by Haeckel Pheodaria, rich in specific forms and remark- 
able in many respects, is described in Mature by this indefatiga- 
ble observer. Over 2000 “species” have been collected by the 
Challenger expedition. The greater number of the species are 
visible to the naked eye The development of Ambystoma punc- 
tatum is described by Dr. S. Clarke, with excellent figures, in the 
Studies from the biological laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity. Considerable has been done by the Scandinavian 
of the worms. A number of new forms of much interest have 
been described and elegantly figured by Levinsen in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Natural History Society of Copenhagen. 
Hewitson and Moore’s Descriptions of New Indian Lepidop- 
terous insects is to appear in parts. For the first part we are 
indebted to Dr. Hayden. A number of forms are related to 
American species, hence this publication is ot interest to lepidop- 
terists in America. The death of Dr. Boisduval, the well-known 
lepidopterist, who described so many North American butterflies 
and moths, is recorded. He attained the age of eighty-one years. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
PEABopy Museum at CAMBRIDGE.—Prof. F. W. Putnam, in three 
already mentioned. he second to ancient mounds and burial 
places in Cumberland Valley, Tennessee. Several thousand an- 
cient stone graves have been opened walled town on the 
of children, from one to four under each house. The third paper 
treated of the ornamentation of pottery. The author concludes 
from a wide induction that the seemingly useless appendages of 
more refined ceramic ware are survivals of useful parts in a ruder 
age, and that the study of the ornamentation of pottery will fur- 
nish an important clue to the progress of culture. 
‘Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
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