NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 271 
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY. — Devoted to Popular nee 
and Literature. June, 1867. J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., York 
his lively and independent monthly does good service in the cause 
of education. Every number contains an article on Natural History, 
_ besides a special department 2a gleanings in Science and the 
The present number contains valuable hints on the importance 
of the study of Natural History in pitta: Ss. 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
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BOTANY. 
ROTTENNESS OF Frvuirs.—The experiments of M. Devaine, record- 
ed in the ‘“‘ Comptes Rendus,” Aug. 20, 1866, prove that the rottenness 
ef fruits is the result of the attacks of fungi, the different varie- 
rot, Produces a black putridity; a Selenosporium? Corda, which 
Devaine observed upon the cucumber, and which he propagated on this 
fruit, gives a beautiful red color to the flesh of the cucumber, whilst 
the rottenness of the same fruit, resulting from the invasion of a Mucor 
or a Penicillium, has no particular coloration. — Quarterly Journal of 
Science. 
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ZOOLOGY. 
#D-LEGGED GRA SSHOPPER. — This terrible pest has been for 
far 
Now the farmers are in a quandary, and some are In despair, not sow- 
ing or planting, believing that it would be labor spent in vain, while 
others run the risk.” It used to swarm at certai rtain times in the East- 
ern States. Harris enumerates its visitations in New England in the 
last century, when it devoured. every green thing, so that ‘days of 
