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has been plucked out.” The reviewer adds that saddle-galls on 
horses become covered with white hairs; and that he possesses a 
black cat which has a white star on its head where it was picked 
by a fowl in kittenhood. The stridulating organs of spiders 
have been described by Westring and Mason Wood; those of still 
other spiders (Steatoda guttata and Linyphia tenebricola), of both 
sexes, have recently been described by Mr. F. M. Campbell.—— 
It is claimed by M. Pasteur that earth-worms carry about the 
bacteridium germs of the disease called anthrax in their alimentary 
canal; that the dust of the earth mixed with the infected blood 
gets blown about the herbage with the worms’ excrement, and the 
cattle devouring the grass become infected. Soon to be pub- 
lished is Mr. St. George Mivart’s “ The Cat; an introduction to 
dibranchiate Cephalopoda or cuttles, Dr. Brock discusses the 
phylogeny of these animals. He thinks that the Octopods, or 
poulps, have been derived from shell-bearing forms, Argonauta 
having, in the young, the rudiment of a shell capsule, while Cirro- 
teuthis, which is not a true Decapod, has an internal shell; while 
the ink-bag is originally a part of the hind gut, in Sepia only is it 
connected by a long efferent duct with the anus. He then asks 
how Sepia came to retain its shell, when in other cuttles it is sim- 
ply horny. He thinks that Sepia may be a direct descendant of 
the belemnites. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
_ ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE AMERICAN AssocraTion.—Of the hos- 
pitality and general enthusiasm which characterized the Boston 
meeting, accounts will be found elsewhere and especially in the 
Daily Boston Advertiser from Aug. 26th to Sept. 2. Our purpose 
is to give a list of the anthropic papers and a brief sketch of their- 
contents. 
I. Ethnology of Africa. A. S. Bickmore. 
2. Myths and folklore of the Iroquois. Erminnie A. Smith, 
3. Prehistoric altars of Whiteside county, Ill. W. C. Holbrook. 
. Theory imiti emocracy i D. W. Ross. 
5. Ancient moun s near Naples, Ill. J. G. Henderson. 
, Stone imp C. Abbott. ` R 
10. Indications of Pre-Indian occupancy of the Atlantic coast of North America 
~ _ Subsequent to that of palæolithic man. Abbott. pe 
11. The probable existence in America of the prehistoric practice of trepanning '" 
: the cutting of rondelles or amulets from the skull. R. J. Farquharson. 
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_ Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
