652 General Notes. [November, 
thirty wood-cuts of many rare birds and mammals, and forms a nearly 
complete catalogue of all the living vertebrates received by the society 
during the past ten years. The volume will prove of a good deal of in- 
terest to the general student of these animals. 
cent BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. — Annual Report of the Board of Regents of 
the aa Institute. Washington. 1877. 8vo, 
On the Nymph Stage of the Embide. By R. i ecke ‘{Exteacted from the 
Journal of the Linnean Society, Zodlogy, vol. xiii.) 8vo, pp. 11, 1 plate. 
The Post-Tertiary Fossils procured in the Late Arctic Expedition; with Notes on 
some of the Recent or Living Mollusca from the Same Expedition. By J. Gwyn Jef- 
freys. pais the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for September, 1877.) 
8vo, pp. 1 
A Late of the Birds of the Vicinity of Cincinnati, with Notes. By Frank 
W. Langdon, Naturalist’s Agency., Salem, Mass. 1877. i, 
On the Tenacity of Life of Tape-Worms and their Larval forms: in Man and Ani- 
mals. By ni raphe Perroncito. (Annali della Reale Accademia ad Ag delle 
1876.) 8vo, 
Members and Correspondenis of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
1877. 8vo, pp. 4 
Address to the Biological Section of the British even it Plymouth, August, 
1877. By J. Gwyn Jeffreys. London. 1877. 8vo, 
The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, New York. By 
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and H. D. Minot. 8vo, pp. 
Palzontological Bulletin. No. 25. Verbal Conan kaoh on a New Locality of 
the Green River Shales, containing Fishes, Insects, and Plants in a good State of 
Preservation. Made by =n D. Cope, before the American Philosophical Society, 
, July 20, 1877. 8vo, pp. 1 
Notes of a New Genus i Annelids from the Lower Silurian. By George Bird 
Grinnell. (From the American Journal of Science and Arts. Vol. xiv. September, 
1877.) 8vo, pp. 2. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
Porsonous Grasses. — In the September number of Zrimen’s Jour- 
nal of Botany there is an interesting note by Dr. Hance on Intoxicating 
Grasses, which supplements a previous article on the same subject. A 
ss was sent by Dr. Aitchison from Kashmir which Professor Dyer 
determines as Stipa Sibirica Munro. Concerning this grass, Dr. Aitchi- 
son writes (date of August 4, 1875): “I have just been collecting some 
good specimens of a grass that is extremely common near Gulmuz. It 
grows in large tussocks, and is very poisonous to horses and cattle. 
The cattle are too knowing and will not eat it. Horses from the plains 
do eat it and die from its effects, but if quickly treated recover. They 
become comatose aud lose the power of their limbs. It grows in the 
Scinde Valley also. Whilst there I heard of it and the cure, namely, 
smoking them, by making a large fire and keeping the horse’s head in 
1 Conducted by Pror. G. L. GOODALE. 
