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IDDLER-CRAB WITH TWO LARGE HANDS.—A male “Fiddler” with 
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specimen was very lively, and used both hands with equal facility. — S. I. 
Smith, New Haven, Conn. 

PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Meeting of October 19th, 1869. — The 
President exhibited some implements of stone and shell, forming the 
of the stones is probably a charm, as it represents an animal, probably 
the Texas Armadillo, and it is ingeniously cut, so that the bands of color 
correspond to the transverse rows of scales. The shell is a large Oliva 
from Lower California, perforated and suspended by a string. 
Dr. Stimpson gave an account of his experiments, during the last three 
months, upon a solution of carbolic acid as a substitute for alcohol in the 
preservation of wet specimens. The results had been gratifying, and 
Solved in forty times its bulk of water gave a fluid which equalled alcohol, 
in its preservative pappan at less than one-twentieth the cost, with the 
additional advantage of keeping the specimen far more nearly in its 
original condition, as to the color, etc. And very curiously (this is, how- 
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Several weeks in the fluid. The qualities of the substance (more properly 
-an alcohol than an acid), which is a great enemy of all protozoic and 
a life, depend upon its powerful action in destroying the germs 
ated with, if not the cause of, decomposition. In a solution of 
