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tematie examination of the remarkable formation at present in progress would place in a still 
ied light the Mj iil of its fauna to that of the Cretaceous period; since the speci- 

mens which our few dredgefuls contained can only be considered as a mere sample of the 
varied. forme of animal life Which this part of the ocean bottom sustains, —its * Urschleim ’ 
whole.” 
The kors Mid e is. ip: sea forms found in the Mediterranean: 
RB bivalve and peer eos molluses, as well as soophyten, can kerer « depths even ex- 
et iil 2i à M. Alphonse 


ov Kwarda (hichi Goes hor t ive the att 

rea rs since for repairs 
ketch tiving polyparies and molluses were Mitecbod: PR portio ons gn it whieh had been nb 
rg o a depth of from 1093 to 1577 fathoms. Of these, some had been previously consid- 
le yid i bes or bas been altogether unknown, w whilst others were only known in a fossil 
state, as g tertiaries of the Mediterranean basin.” — Scient ntifie 
Opinion 
Honey BEES KILLED BY POLLEN.—In an article in the NATURALIST for 
February on * Honey-bees killed by Silk-weed Pollen," you say ‘‘we have 
never before heard of an insect actually losing its life from this cause." 
In 1860 my attention was called to the same fact; many hives had their 


over one hundred pollen masses attached to the claws and legs. When 
the claws are thus fettered, the bee cannot climb upon the combs nor col- 
lect honey, and is soon expelled from the hive and must die. The unfet- 
tered bees tumble them out with little ceremony. As the common silk- 
weed (milk-weed we call it here) needs insect aid ü free its pollen 
flo S 
the pollen masses are attached to a cleft gland. en the insect visits the 
ower to secure its honey, of which there is an abundance, it must step 
or the gland to reach the nectary, and a hair or claw entering the cleft 
comes fast. 'To free itself the insect must pull out the gland with the 
pollen attached or remain and die; and the latter is really the fate of 
many small flies and moths. — J. KIRKPATRICK, Cleveland, Ohio. 
LINGULA FOUND LIVING IN CaLrFORNIA.— Mr. Tryon announced that 
Dr. W. Newcomb had dredged at Monterey, California, one living speci- 
men of Lingula albida Sowb., which is probably the northern limit of the 
Toten, = not in accordance with the general rule of distribution. — 
sn the Conchological Section of the Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Fla 

GEOLOGY. 
Prenistoric Picrures or THE CAVE Horse rw FRANCE.— Prof. Owen 
States that outlines of the head of different rd of the cave horse 
when alive, neatly cut on the smooth surface uu rib of the same Mecum 
have been discovered by the Vicomte de Lastic St. Jal, in 1863, in his 
cavern at Bruniquel, under circumstances nd pere showed the 
Im to have been done by one of the tribe of men inhabiting the cavern, 
vei Men the wild horses of that locality and period for food.— Scientific 


