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ogy, R. W. Shufeldt. The Fate of the Fur Seal in American Waters 
(with lantern illustrations) ; William Palmer. 
October 31s¢t—The Classification of the Tetrodontoidea ; Theodore 
Gill. Some Fishes New to New England Waters; T. H. Bean, 
Cuckoo Stomachs and Their Contents; Walter B. Barrows. The Tem- 
perature of Trees; N. H. Egleston. Notes on Parasites: Develop- 
ment of Echinorhynchus gigas; C.W.S tiles. 
_ November r4th—Winter Aspects of the Mojave Deseet Region ; 
. Palmer. A Case of Echinococcus in Swine; V. A. Moore. 
Nore on Parasites: Coccidium bigeminum Stiles; C. W. Stiles. 
Haeckel’s Radiolaria of the Challenger Expedition; L. F. Ward. 
Three Days in the Tropics; L. F. Ward.—FREDERICK A. Lucas, 
Secretary. 
Boston Society of Natural History.—November gth.—The 
following pap:rs were read : The Natural History Museums of Austra- 
lasia; G. L. Goodale. Recent Fossils of the Harbor and Back Bay, 
Boston ; Warren Upham.—SAMUEL HENSHAW, Secretary. 


SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Princeton University Geological Expedition under Prof, W. B. 
Scott has returned with much valuable booty. They explored the 
valley of Deep River, Montana, where the Ticholeptus beds are seen, 
and obtained a good series of the vertebrate species described from 
those beds by Cope, together with some additional ones. Prof. 
Scott finds three horizons of fossils in the valley, one of which at 
least is Loup Fork, while the lowest one is nearly allied to the John 
Day bed. : 
The expedition on behalf of the American Museum of Natural 
History, of New York, under direction of Dr. J. L. Wortman, explored 
the Wind River and Big Horn Eocene regions in Wyoming, the 
past.summer. Dr, Wortman was very successful, and we shall have 
considerable new information respecting the interesting faunz which 
these beds contain in the forthcoming report on them x Prof. Osborn 
and Dr. Wortman. \ 
‘Prof. H. F. Osborn has accepted the position of Professor of Biology 
in Columbia =. New York. 


