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logical Herods have slain and sucked the blood of myriads of infant 
mosquitoes and other insects; and now, in their new world above the 
waters, with still more intensified powers of doing mischief, happily, 
however, to flies mostly obnoxious to man, they riot in bloodshed and 
carnage. 
This is the season to stock the fresh-water aquarium. Go to the 
nearest brook, gather a sprig or two of the Water Cress, which 
spreads so rapidly, a root of the Eel Grass, and plant them in a glass 
dish or deep jar. Pour in your water, let the sand a nd sediment 
settle, a then put in a few Tadpoles, a Newt ier Snails, 
(Limnea, Planorbis, and Valvata), Caddis Flies, and Wat eer 
together with the gatherings from a thicket of Eel Grass, or oikani 
merged plants, being rich in the young of various flies, Ephemeras, 
“feel at home,” and the aquarium will be swarming with life, af- 
fording amusement and occupation for many a dull hour, by day or at 
night, in watching the marvels of insect transformations, and plant- 
growth.—A. S. P. 
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BOSTON ton oot or NATURAL History. January 16. Concluded. 
—Mr. W.W. Bailey read a paper on Epigea repens, the May flower, by 
Prof. i W. Bailey, of Fredericton, N. B., in which he mentions find- 
ing specimens exhibiting the following peculiarities: Corolla, imper- 
fectly salverform (the petals not thoroughly coherent into a tube, 
which were not hairy), and apparently not deciduous; the stamens re- 
Cea mai TRPE > = perme ne a di mon ae jess united. Some 
of th ment-like base, but 
no authors, ‘The atest were Gece and had reverted into petals. 
Feb. 6, 1867.—The Secretary read a paper by Dr. S. Kneeland, on 4 
fungoid aoa or ce rpillar Fungus, from, the Philippine Islands, 
to which were appended some remarks of Mr. C. J. Sprague, on the 
tanical relations of this fun: 
xhibited, under the inicroscons, Ae young w the 
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