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less important ones, which, however, have a legitimate existence. You 
see we have not much reason to complain of the sacrifices of our govern- 
ent, which though considerable, cannot equal those we impose on our- 
selves with regard to the resources we dispose of. Therefore, please 
send us, to facilitate our researches and to lend us strength and courage, 
all the publications you can spare. Help by keeping us constantly ad- 
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This will be a fair exchange of thought no fiscal law can preyent and 
which surely will benefit both progress and humanity.” — F. V. H. 
— The council of the Geological Society of London have awarded the 
Bigsby medal to Prof. O. C. Marsh, of Yale College, in recognition of 
the great services which he has rendered to the paleontology of the ver- 
tebrata. 
— We are glad to announce that Dr. Elliott Coues has kindly con- 
sented to edit the department of Vertebrate Zodlogy of the AMERICAN 
NatuRaList, with especial reference to ornithology. Our readers may 
expect from this talented and genial naturalist occasional papers as 
well as items of ornithological news. 
SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.? 
Montuty MicroscoricaL JOURNAL. — March. Address of the 
President, H. C. Sorby (Application of the Microscope to Geology). 
Measurements of Rulings on Glass, by E. W. Morley. 
Tur GeoLoGIcaL Magazine. — March. Evidence afforded by the 
Planet Mars on the Subject of Glacial Periods, by Edward Carpenter. 
A Permian Fauna associated with a Carboniferous Flora in the Upper- 
most Portion of the Coal-Formation of Bohemia, by O. Feistmantel. 
Tue GrograruicaAL Macazine.— March. Communication with 
Siberia by Sea, by J. Wiggins (with map of Kara Sea). The Works 
on the Tiber. Topographical Surveys in Asiatic Russia during 1875 
by M. Venyukof. Champa. The Nile from Mruli to Dufli (with a map 
of the Upper Nile from surveys made by General Gordon Pasha, by 
E. G. Ravenstein). 
CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. — January and February. History of 
Phyciodes Tharos, a Polymorphic Butterfly. (Marcia, winter form of 
Tharos.) : 
Psycur.—No. 32. Bibliographical Record of Papers on American 
Entomology (continued in each number). 
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