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has characterized the history of this academy, now in the 
thirteenth year of its existence, and which merits especial men- 
tion. The volume is strong in archeological papers, by W. W. 
Calkins, W. H. Pratt, A. D. Churchill, J. Goss, Dr. R. J. Farquhar- 
son; these will be noticed more particularly in our department 
of Anthropology. Among zodlogical papers is Mr. Calkin’s cata- 
logue of the marine shells of Florida, with descriptions of severa 
new species, and papers by Mr. H. Strecker, on the Bombycid 
moths, and an interesting account by him of hybrids between 
Callimorpha lecontei and C. interrupto-marginata, There are palæ- 
ontological articles by S. A. Miller and W. H. Barris; but with- 
out disparagement to the other articles that by Mr. J. Duncan 
Putnam on certain bark lice called Pulvinaria, is of the more 
importance, from the careful manner in which the anatomy, in- 
ternal and external, the development and metamorphosis of this 
singular insect have been discussed. This bark louse has at- 
tracted attention from the injury it has done to maples East, and 
especially West, and Mr. Putnam suggests various remedies. The 
crowded plates are drawn with care, and engraved by the author, 
and considering this is his first attempt, are well enough done. 
_ Haypen’s Great West.—This pamphlet while very popular in 
its treatment, is authoritative, written as it has been by one who 
has closely studied for over twenty years the physical geography, 
topography and geology of the Far West, and has had perhaps 
greater facilities at his command than any other geologist. After 
giving a brief history of the different surveys of the West, the 
Mountain systems of the Cordilleras are described, followed by an 
account of the Yellowstone river and its tributaries, the Yellow- 
stone park, and its geysers, the principal rivers of the Northwest, 
viz.: the geographical area drained by the Missouri river and its 
tributaries. Accounts of the tertiary lake-basins of the West with 
their numerous vertebrate fossils, are succeeded by those of the 
Snake river, its lava plains, the American and the Shoshone falls; 
and farther on the plateau of Colorado, with its high mountain 
peaks, and the Indian ruined towns and cave dwellings of the 
uthwest are noticed. Then passing westward over the Great 
basin, Great Salt lake is described, and finally the Sierra Nevada 
and the coast range, while the brochure ends with a brief account 
of the mineral wealth of the West, the fossils of the lignite, and _ 
lastly the stock-raising industry of the Western plains. The 
whole is the most interesting and reliable summary of the more 
striking features of the West that we have yet seen. 
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a work entitled, “The Great West.” Philadelphia, Franklin Publishing Company, 
PP. 87. 
