1877.] Scientific Serials. 703 
—Sets of recent collections made by Dr. E. Palmer in Northern 
Arizona and Southeastern California in 1876, and Southern Utah and 
Nevada in 1877, may be obtained by application to Dr. C. C. Parry, 
Davenport, Iowa, or Professor Sereno Watson, Cambridge, Massachu- 
setts. The sets number from three hundred to five hundred species, to 
be sold at $8.00 per hundred species. 
— Professor Frederick Wahlgren, of the University of Lund, died in 
July, aged fifty-seven. Professor T. A. Conrad, the conchologist and 
palzontologist, died August 9th, aged seventy-four. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Boston Society or Naturat History.— October 3. Mr. M. E. 
Wadsworth remarked on the so called tremolite of Newbury, Mass. Dr. 
T. M. Brewer read some notes on the stilt sandpiper, and Mr. S. H. 
Scudder exhibited a large collection of fossil insects from Colorado, made 
during the past summer, under the auspices of Hayden’s U. S. Geolog- 
ical Survey of the Territories. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences. — October 1. Mr. G. N. Law- 
rence presented descriptions of new West Indian birds, and Professor 
H. L. Fairchild made a communication on the structure of Lepidoden- 
dron and Sigillaria. - 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLUB. — October 10. Mr. S. H. Scudder 
described an ascent of the Sierra Blanca in Colorado. 
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SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.? 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. — On the Reltiot 
of the Geology of Vermont to that of Berkshire, by J. D. A 
Preliminary Catalogue of the Reptiles, Fishes, and poan of the 
rmudas, with Seen of Four Species of Fishes believed to be 
New, by G. B 
CANADIAN Eroilor ooi. — July. Remarks upon the Cynipidæ, 
by H. F. Bassett. August. — On the Preparatory Stages of Satyrus 
nephele, by W. H. Edwa 
ANNALS AND MaGazine or Naturat History.—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. G. 
Jeffreys. 
Tue GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. — September. Across Europe and 
Asia. Part III. The Middle Urals, t Ja Milne. Geology of the 
Isle of Man, by H. H. Howarth. 
' The articles enumerated under this head will be for the most part selected. 
