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os illustrating the development of the Cod, presented by M. O. Sars; 
f the Herring, by M. A. Boeck; and of the Trout, by C. Vogt 
Series of designs were also exhibited representing the history of their 
development, from the vesicular state (l état vésiculaire) in the egg, 
up to the moment of ppr and the different aspects of the fish 
from the time of birth to adult age. Next the drawings were placed 
Jars containing specimens ARE the different stages of growth. 
Several bottles,containing specimens ak eee the process of the ar- 
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tificial fecundation of the Co d, discover y M. O. Sars, comprised: 
= R, sal the Cod TEERAA tecondated, three. or fone, houro after the operation, fen 
sh f th ; 2. Eggs artificial 
ieuiaas eleven or twelve hours after the “operation, and sh owing the division of Pal 
germinative disk; 3. Eggs artificially fecundated, after two or three days, showing a 
greater reaps of the disk; 4. Eggs after four ie of in reden n, showing the perfect 
anti e disk; 5 Eggs night days att AEN DURES nao omma the embryo 
a fo sine g the yo 
0 h (alevin) pertety developed, and after the rupture of its envelopes; 7. Young Cod 
teent. — Bulletin de as aa Te @ Acclimata- 
T MADE OF FisH.— Professor Rosing, of Aas, France, has in- 
Secs a biscuit of flour made of fish (farine de poisson), prepared 
like the sea biscuit. It forms a very nutritious and compact article of 
food, being four times as rich in albuminoid substances as beef, four 
imes as much as fresh codfish, and sixteen times as much 
as milk. Besides, it has the advantage of being very rich in 
iia — Bulletin de la Société impériale Zoologique @ Acclimata- 
AN IN CAYUGA COUNTY, X. Y.— Some time during the 
were 
other was one o site hunters had ever seen anything of the 
i out here before. It proved to be imen of the white or 
gh-billed Pelican (Pelicanus erythrorhynchus Gmelin), in good con- 
dition, a: its s u ight feet from ti tip. 
. S. F. Baird, of the — Institute, Washington, D. C., 
in speaking of this bird 
The male has on the upper ie (upper part of the man a thin, elevated, bony 
Process. ahont ee or four inches. i 
female difa It lives through- 
out the United $ meine rade ox on the coast of the Middle and Northern States; found as far 
north as the 6lst parallel. This species breeds in the fur countries, generally selecting 
inaccessible places in the neighborhood of waterfalls. ‘They also inhabit throughout the 
Rocky Mountains and in California. In winter they are very abundant on our Southern 
Coast, from Texas to Florida. They remain inactive on sand-bars most of the day, pro- 
Caring their food about sunrise, and again just before sunset. They swim Por; — 
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