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study of the hair worms now asserts that the larve of the Gordii 
do not select their hosts; they encyst themselves and become 
developed in the most different animals (batrachians, fishes, crus- 
taceans, Arachnida, insects and mollusks). It is, therefore, by no 
means the case that the larve of the hair worms are parasites 
peculiar to insects; they probably most frequent fishes, and only 
exceptionally infest terrestrial animals, and only these when acci- 
dentally exposed to water, many insects, as ground beetles, man- 
tidz, grasshoppers and locusts perishing in this way; the Gordii 
in them being set at liberty. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON.—On the 10th 
of February, 1879, at the invitation of Dr. J. Meredith Toner,’ 
Col. Garrick Mallery, U.S.A., and Prof. Otis T. Mason, a few 
gentlemen interested in the study of man, met in the Smithsonian 
Institution to devise a method of mutual improvement. The 
effort resulted in the formation of the Anthropological Society of 
Washington, with Maj. J. W. Powell for president, Dr. Elmer R. 
Reynolds, recording secretary, and Otis T. Mason, corresponding 
Secretary. The purpose of the members being to compare notes 
I. Indian Pictographs. G. K. Gilbert. 
2. Aztec and Guatemalan Antiquities. Otis T. Mason. 
8. French and Indian Half-breeds. Dr. Victor Havard, U.S.A. i 
9. Indian Color Names. Albert S. Gatschet. 
10. Comparative Mythology of the Indies. Col. Garrick Mallery, U.S.A. 
II. Aboriginal Cemeteries near Piscataway, Md. Dr. Elmer R. Reynolds. 
12. The Zodlogical Relationship of Man. Prof. Theodore N. Gill. 
13. The Sign Language of the N. A. Indians. Col. Garrick Mallery, U.S.A. 
i eapons i m. J. Hoffman. 
15. Fertilizers employed h de, : 
16. Comparison of a written language with one that is spoken only. Otis T. 
Mason. 
17. Aboriginal Shell Mounds at Pope’s Creek. Dr. Elmer R, Reynolds. 
18, Ancient Maps of N. America. John C. Lang. : ‘ 
1g. Comparison of Forest and Geological changes in the Tropics. Miles Rock. 
20. Estimation of the age of Prehistoric Remains. Capt. Edwin P, Lull, U.S.N, 
21. Turtle-back Celts and their Uses S. 
22. Aboriginal Shell-heaps on South River, Md. J.. . McGuire. 
23. Unclassed Disc-shaped Implements from Benning’s, D.C. Dr. Elmer R, 
Reynolds. 
24. A Strange old Chart. Lt. Com. W. Bainbridge Hoff, U.S.N, 
1Edited by Prof. Ors T. MAson, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
