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colored corolla.” — Cuthbert Collingwood writes on the Luminosity of 
ea.— Our Field Clubs, their Aims, Objects, and Work, notices the 
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Ead in any branch of natural science, and this is just what the 
chief object of our club renders a desirable circumstance. Special 
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county, from five hundred to two thousand persons attending Pos 
and have done much to popularize po historical, and an 
quarian research. 
From the Chronicles of Science, we learn that « India seems likely to 
owing to the reckless way in which the Indians killed the trees in the 
process of stripping, planting, of course, no new ones.” —M. Nau 
pooh that ‘ monstrous” plants may become new species. A Popp’ 
‘took on a remarkable variation in its fruit, — a crown of secondary 
capsules being added to the normal central capsule. A field of such 
poppies was tes and M. Géppert, with seed from this field, ob- 
tained 
— grow.” —“ The Earl of Selkirk throws great doubt on the 
received creed as to the secular rise of land in Scandinavia.”— Dr. 
a and W. Thelen show that there is an apparatus for closing 
the tracheæ of patag which apparatus is often so developed, as to 
Serve as a vocal o 
The interest in the “ Glass Rope controversy,” regarding the nature 
of this very curious and remarkably elegant sponge or polyp, Sup- 
posed to to have been an artificial Japanese product, has been height- 
EN a "ged discovery of a European Hyalonema, or “Glass 
