
448 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, ETC. 
Address =e the President, W. C. Endicott, Esq. Hon. J. H. Clifford replied 
on the part of Mr. Peabody, the founder of the Academy, who was unfor- 
e ety 
Institute, and by J. W. MS eTA of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
dianapolis, Ind.— Your specimens are as follows: 2, Onoclea sensibilis: 
barren d, Wy at the north X south. 3, Pteris aquilina; E "widely distributed. 
to Asplenium thel: ro ga ; iawn rth and south. 5, a spesies of Galium. ee 
charis olivacea 7, no fruit, and not easily Pii ei he i If you mean by the 
** Snow-plant ” Sarto dis sanguinea, You will not be able to cultivate it, as it is parasiti- 
cal in its abits and proves very pe “alt to rear. Herbariums are not usually p npe 
lished unless of € and costly ch: roa L as i ey, discovered species like 
Fendler's of Venezuela, Wright’s of Cuba, ete. —J. I 
H n por, Mas ass.— The worm declar ed edet your patien to en been found 2 
the wound i m allied to the common eat bord. T ably lived in 2 
muddy 1 bottom fa a wet, spring, or Pttiok, and may possibly have tsa in the b 
used in poe gs. We have e kept it alive in the bottle in which you brought it, for 
days. 
WwW. W. Indianapolis. —No. 8 is Botrychium lunaroides var. obliquum; ba ral ad 
frond. T oc tom uy Filicum, and Presl’s Pteridigraphia, are essential in study: 
ing the ferns exte 
astham, Mass. qe frog i is Rana sylvatica. 
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EXPLANATION OF PLATE 7. 
RADIOLARIA.— Fig. 1. Tetis yle octaeantha. Fig. 2. Haliomma amphidiscus. 3. 
Haliomma longispinum. Halio mma hexacanthum. 5. Haliomma Humboldtii. 
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CORRECTIONS. iid, te 
Ino number, in the * Chapter on — we > suggested that Plate ` 
; Tep "thi is of Dermalei ied, and t ray" 3 represented the male. me 
im led to this opinion by the resemblance of a. p de arva, ot aa oir of 
us of mites. After the article Ment to press wi s elaborate me hold 
de, entitled “Studien an Acari aardkern in m cond ber of fghbori 
and Küllikers 4 Zeitsc redd he has given a minute "rese of a neig Cl api. 
genus, Myocoptes es musculinus (Koch) found parasitic on mice. stadyin: 
23 reds work we LULA our figure 1 must be a "rw Derm DE and that fig-3 
[m e ir | 
e. read 
ad pae. 373 line 10 from na for Chelytus 
" Cheyletus, AD line 20 from: top, for uglenia read Eu 
: EX A e 6 from bottom, for Orange, N. J. read Oran ty, Pa. 
hia LER for ** f Mision County; r Prid Mifin. Coun "dint 
eon n s, Fable'mountain Pine Pine? (J (J. T etis Ja rate dat 
ame eon sn AME eee H ; 
vp interior of of the Bene of Pennsylvania. (See Gardeners 








