616 Selected Articles in Scientific Scrials. { August, 1880. 
ciety of Natural History, 24 Aug., 1880, from 10 A. M. to I P M. 
During the meeting of the American Association a room will be 
constantly open for the exclusive use of the entomologists. 
e appropriations by Congress at the last session was 
. $150,000 for the U. S, Geological Survey. (it asked 6390.9 000); ` 
$25,000 for the U. S- Entomological Commission ;»$20,000 
the Bureau of Ethnology under the control ‘of the Smithsonian 
Leena $8000 was also appropriated for the publication of 
r. Emil Bessel’s report on the scientific results of the Polaris 
Beis This will make two quarto volumes, with, an abun- 
dance of illustrations. 
— The summer school of Zodlogy of the Johns Hopkins 
University, Dr. S. F. Clarke, Director, opened in July, near the 
mouth of Chesapeake bay, for a session of six weeks. This need 
not be confounded with the laboratory established by Dr. Brooks 
at Beaufort, N. C. 
— The Permanent Exposition of Philadelphia gave an enter- 
tainment on the 5th of July, in which about 30,000 persons par- 
ticipated. It netted about $7000, most of which, we understand, 
is to be devoted to the uses of the Natural History Departments. 
— The American Association for the Advancement of Science 
will open at Boston, August 25th. The attendance will undoubt- 
edly be large, and the meeting one of unusual interest. 
— Prof. D. T. Ansted, an industrious geological writer, author 
among other books of a Physical Geography, died May 13. 
was born in ‘18 14. Ma 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
JOURNAL í OF THE RoyvaL MicroscoricaL Society.—June. Ona 
parasitic sponge of the order Calcarea. by P. M. Duncan. The 
genus Ravenelia, by M. C. Cooke. On the double and treble 
staining of animal tissues for microscopical investigations, by 
Gibbes. On the illumination of objects under the higher powers 
= of the microscope, by J. Smith. The record of current researches 
re ating to invertebrate animals, cryptogamous plants and-micro- 
scopy are full and most useful. 
JOURNAL oF CoxcHoLocY.— January. This number, just re- 
: ceived, contains but one article, a catalogue of the Polynesian 
_ Mitridæ, with remarks on their Brogrepliae range station, and 
descriptions of supposed new species, by A. Gar š ar 
AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST —-June and July. ag 3 notices: 
SOF the white grub fungus, and an article on the true and bogus 
= Yucca moth, with remarks on the pollination of Yucca, by C. Vv 
n Riley, while the July number gives a fully illustrated article on 
the method of pupation of certain butterflies, by the same, 
