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e more numerous, they are smaller than before, and the anatomy 
of the internal organs is more complex. At the end of the body, now 
much elongated, is a pair of short feet, ending in several bristles. This 
is the Zo&a stage (Fig. 74, enlarged forty-five diameters) and corresponds 
to the Zoéa of the Crab, Carcinas manas (Fig. 15; a, natural size), dis- 
covered by Thompson. 
THE CaNADrAN ENTOMOLOGIST completed its first volume in July. The 
Editor, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Credit, Canada, announces that the publi- 
cation will be continued and the number of pages of each number be 
increased from eight to at least twelve, and, if sufficiently encouraged, to 
sixteen, while the annual subscription will be increased from 50 cents 
to $1.00. We hope this journal will be sustained, for it is a credit to 
Canadian entomology. ; 
AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. — The August number, which comes to 
Us in an attractive cover, is the last of Vol. i. The Editors announce that 
hereafter each number will consist of thirty-two pages instead of twenty- 
four, and the annual subscription has been raised from $1.00 to $2.00. 
The present number abounds with illustrations, while the paper is im- 
Proved in quality. The magazine cannot fail to satisfy those who wish 
for information regarding our noxious and beneficial insects. 

PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
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An ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.— The 
Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Association was held August 18-25, at 
em, Mass. From the great number of papers presented, their high 
Scientific character, and the large number of members present, the meet- 
ing was judged by many to have been, both in a scientific and social point 
t Massachusetts Bay given by the city of Salem. 
in the formation of two new subsections 
I which 
microscopists, and as the stand- 


