56 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, ETC. 
cluded in a single species, to which the name of Eophyton SEMPER has 
been given. Eophyton, therefore, stands by the side of Eozoón,—the 
one being, in the present state of our knowledge, the earliest Stare plant, 
as the other is the earliest animal organism. — Quarterly Journal of 
Science. 


PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Hisro L Society OF Passaic, N. J. — This active society was or- 
ganized seh 28th, 1867, and held its first field meeting July 15th, 1868, 
when glacial marks were discovered upon the rocks near Little Falls, run- 
ning in a south- -easterly direction. 

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Dome Camp Grant, near Richmond, Va.—The smaller of your plants is Selaginella 
ue tow is Hypnum tamariscinum. Both are found widely Aistributed through 
the he United States. — J. 
. A., Augusta, Me. — Your insect boxes should be made as pem air-tight as pos- 
sible to be insect proof. The cover ra shut down upon an in md om so that 
an invading insect will have to make rns in order to get fairly yr the box. 
The inside should be daubed with serena e camphor, wrapped in paper with pin 
holes, should be pinned to the bottom of the 
. M., Cold Springs, N. Y.— Agassiz’s * Methods f Study " is a good introduci w 
Book for barianers in Zoölogy, and may be read with Tenney's “ Zoolo for Schools,” 







Clark's ** Mind in Nature," and A epe and God ld’s “ Principles of Zoólo: 
. H. E., Co: Mi urgh, W. Va. he worm sae apep AN X» is two feet yl and the 
largest one we ever n a gigantic VE y. 96 dius) Compare the account of 
the Gordius-like worm np. 4l. Also see Bg ot 
on different species of inas dieman aen nd also on other plants, includir t cotton 
DP vpn tend Ind.— The fern is ME iei Merten t i Bae cred frond). y 
good s mens of the aquatic plants T we RE have named say beg a T 
set under asw bere corresponding to those on the seem, ou keep 
O. C. M.. New Haven, and on — Your pay mt meer a he Chicago 
XC of the American Association for the A eile ru Cof Science, should E sent to — 
E. We — Salem, Mass., quite soon, to be in time for printing.- —F. W.P. 
——ÓM Á—— 
"BOOKS a 
gos iPs Books of Natural Hist P- acis Book of Insects; ook of Birds; 
ues dA. Woo seh MONACA NAN Clark Co. Es ia 
upon Woo a niversal on hl 
Reports of the U. 8. Comitlesloners.) VN andes velie by db ia: 
- ished by the National Association Wool 
Catalogue of the Orthoptera i f North orth America described previous to 1861 jui 
for the Smithsonian Institution by S. H. Scudder. M MAE 8v0, pp. 89. i 
fic Opinion (Weekly). December, 1868. London, 
so Che, American. Agricultural An nual. New York: Orange Judd & Co. 12mo. 1809. — 
o Americ se i & Co. Emo. 189. — 

