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eerste for want of means. The Society in a circular recentlf issued, 
asks the pecuniary aid of all interested in scienc 
citizens $- siis ace, who have already didi so ees for science, will 
not let one of its most useful institutions of learning suffer for want of 
i funds ken for in the present i on for the society seeks for a mere 
pittance, such as a few of the wealthy men of that well-to-do city could 
easily grant. We hope all our shtok PAA will lend their aid to a soci- 
E which has done so much for the furtherance of their favorite study, at 
least by subscribing to its Transactions, which are published at $3 a year. 
CATALOGUE OF NORTH AMERICAN GRASSHOPPERS.*—A very carefully 
prepared list of all iis Orthoptera of our country. The author states 
in the preface that the arrangement, both of genera and species, is a 
purely alphabetical one. **'The list is not in any sense a synonymical one, 
involving the expression of personal views, but a hand-book for the stu- 
dent, in which is collected every reference to any species of orthoptera 
stated to have been found on the continent of North America, or in the 
West Iudies, —a groundwork upon which he may erect a superstructure of 
his own." Mr. Scudder is also preparing a monograph of the orthoptera 
for publication by the Smithsonian Institution, and desires specimens of 
this neglected group of insects. new arrangement of the families, and 
a more natural one than has been offered before, is appended. 
THE PROGRESS OF ZOOLOGY IN 1867.1 — To the American student these 
yearly volumes are an indispensable aid. They contain lists of every pa- 
per or work relating to zoólogy, with a brief analysis of their contents. 
ow any working naturalist, without a large library at hand, such as 
Scarcely one institution in this country affords, can do without these 
ports, t see. “The fourth volume of the Record forms a 
systematic guide-book to about 36,400 pages of the zoólogical literature 
€ (with the Sas of a very small part) within the year 1867. 
n reached in any preceding year, and corres- 
tien to an increase in ne post of authors; an un y great activ- 
ity appears to have prevailed in the study of Mammals, Birds, Mollusks, 
d ptera." 
$ 
d 
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"The publisher, Mr. Van Voorst, deserves the thanks of zoólogists the 
world over, for the liberal spirit he has manifested in undertaking the pub- 
lication of a work which he prints at a considerable pecuniary sacrifice. 
The British Association, however, made a sip of $500 for the present 
volume and the 
succeeding one. The volume issued in three parts, 
viz.:that of Mid gebget of Entomology, and "= Mollusks, Crustaceans 
and Lower Animals, so that the specialist can at a cheap rate supply him- 
self with a report on his own branch. 


* Catalogue of the Orthoptera of N to 1867. Prepared for 
n by Samuel k ‘Seudder. ‘Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 
Oct., 1868. Pu pp. 89. 
t The Record of Zoological Li nema Vol. IV; Edited by A. C. L. G. Gunther, M. D., 
ete. gogan vas Voorst. 1868. 8vo, pp. £78, . The volume, or the separate parts, can be fur- 
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