380 Scientific News. [June, 
marks by Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes, a screen exhibition of Polari- 
scope objects, by Rey. E. C. Bolles, and an exhibition of objects under 
about sixty microscopes by members of the society. The society has 
recently rented and furnished rooms at 29 Pemberton Square, and is 
working with perseverance and increasing success to unite and assist 
those, within its reach, who are interested in microscopical study. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The interest in geographical research continues to increase in 
France from year to year. The Société de Geographie of Lyons has 
published six numbers of its Bulletin, all full of interesting matter. A 
handsome volume has just been printed by this society entitled A Geo- 
graphical and Statistical Study of the Production and Commerce of 
Cocoon Silk, by Leon Clugnet. This memoir was crowned by the Geo- 
graphical Society. The president of the society is desirous of codperat- 
ing with geographers of foreign countries in popularizing the study of 
geography. He proposes a place for exhibiting in public places the 
most important geographical statistics of any desired region so that the 
people may read them at all times, and thus become familiar with them. 
The first number of the Bulletin of the Société Belgée de Geographie, 
published at Brussels, has just appeared. The leading article by the 
president, General Liagre, on Geographical Science, is one of great in- 
terest. There are seven articles with maps in this number, and a long 
list of members actual, honorary, and corresponding. The objects of the 
society, as laid down in the Bulletin, are exceedingly comprehensive, 
embracing every possible form of geographical information. 
— The first number of the third volume of Hayden’s Bulletin of the 
United States Geological Surveys of the Territories is rich in articles 
_ relating to the anthropology and archeology of the West, as may be seen 
by the following table of contents: A Calendar of the Dakota Nation, 
by Bvt. Lt. Col. Garrick Mallery, U. S. A. (Plate 1.) Researches in 
the Kjikkenméddings and Graves of a Former Population of the Coast of 
Oregon, by Paul Schumacher. (Plates 2-8.) Researches in the Kjok- 
kenméddings of a Former Population of the Santa Barbara Islands and 
Adjacent Mainland, by Paul Schumacher. (Plates 9-22.) The Twana 
Indians of the Skokomish Reservation in Washington Territory, by Rev. 
M. Eells. (Plates 23-25.) Notes on a Collection of Noctuid Moths 
made in Colorado, in 1875, by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., by Aug. R. Grote. 
The Tineina of Colorado, by V. T. Chambers. Notes on a Collection 
of Tineid Moths made in Colorado, in 1875, by A. S. Packard, Jr., by 
V. T. Chambers. On the Distribution of Tineina in Colorado, by V- 
T. Chambers. New Entomostraca from Colorado, by V. T. Chambers. 
On a New Cave Fauna in Utah, by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D. Descrip- 
tion of New Phyllopod Crustacea from the West, by A. S. Packard, 
