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hagen, dated October 1, 1868.)— According to your request, I have the 
honor of laying before your Teade rs a short summary of the latest scien- 
giving little more than the titles of the papers. Nevertheless, I entertain 
the hope that it wil be sufficient to show that the part taken by Scandi- 
land and America; and I may be permitted to add, that nowhere ought 
the Scandinavian literature be better known. The Scandinavian tongues, 
and especially the Danish, enter so largely into the composition of the 
English language, that it must be a comparatively easy task for an Amer- 
ican to make himself so far familiar with our pE that their rich 
Bietety. treasures may not be unintelligible mysteries to 
me to begin with the scientific productions of my own country, 
with which I am of course best acquainted. Of papers falling within the 
limits of this review, the Ove T ep det Kongelige danske videnskabener 
Selskabs eaan; for 1866 and 1867 (Proceedings of the Royal Dan- 
ish Academy of Science), contain es following: First, a critical essay 
more important results of the diggings made in the French bone-caves 
during late years,” containing many i mportant suggestions, but perhaps 
most worthy of serious attention by its ‘opposing strongly some com- 
monly diffused notions about the supposed contemporaneity of man and 
certain extinct animals, as an established fact. The author will a ‘yield 
to positive material evidence of man’s existence at a given epoch, de- 
su 
erja evidences” are rejected as utterly useless in this 
fessor Reinhardt has DP] and figured (on two gets three new 
species of Characinoids from Lagoa Santa, Brazil (Piabina, new | tai 
argentea Reinh., Characidium, new genus, fasciatum Reinh., and Parodon 
Hilarii Reinh.). In the French “resumé,” attached to this paper (as in 
fact t 
aking them more S PRAEAN to foreigners), the author adds some - 
esting remarks on the geographical distribution of the Brazilian fres 
water fishes. a Reinhardt has brought home from the Rio 
cisco, but especially from its tributary, the Rio das Velhar (Min 
twenty-five species of Siluroids, twenty-six of Characinoids, fou bi 
notoids, and two of Scienoids. . Fourteen other fishes have been 
species of this family. Professor Hannover has given an 
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