
670 BOOKS RECEIVED. 
bie fon ae very iene 
or these reasons it is understood at present that though plants n Teg eaf only may be 
tolerated i a aloa eeping rooms, Bhs they had better ae be kept there, ania no Bese should 
y time.—C. M. TRA 
FW. Say is oe ids, Mich. —The only work on American Spiders, is a series of 
illustrated papers, by - Hentz, in i sca bowel 1-6) and Proceedings (Vol. 11) 
of the Boston Society of Natural H The best general works are Blackwall’s 
aoaaa of Great ape: publi ished ae the Ray Bocas, London nana — re Nat- 
s Ara peuées, eres E. Simon. 8vo, with 207 figures. Paris, R 1854. 
J. W. J., Middleboro, Mass.— Your specimen is the Botryllus ete a com ound 
aaloatot mollusk. It will ve described and figured in the new edition of Gould’s Inver- 
tebrates of Massachuse 
W. H. D., Troy, N. Y.—Your specimen is the Hair-worm (Gordius). See NATURAL- 
IST, Voi. I, p. 556. 
E. L. G., Decatur, Ill. — See Darby’s Botany of the Southern States. 
G. W. L., Long Point, Texas. —“I saw a hawk catch an owl the other day. Is ita 
common thing for hawks to = soh awe! ?” We have not heard of such an instance be- 
fore. Haye any of o 
L. B. C., Ri cadens air = nclose you a strange piece of fungus found here. The 
piece is oval, and about four n aE e face. hd ail at taken, of a snow Mirsa 
ness, except at the point of each stalk, where there is a s pene ck. These pink 
specks have increased more — four “in face are! original s ice since first taken (eight 
da ays). They have also Erow arker red all the time. It was found g poin 
downwards, in the u apos Eou Py a cavity i in a od rsh still Eroa ti it foie feet 
from the prt tisa sa ung nats of the Hydnum erinaceumsa—J. L. R. 
W. C. J., Newburyport specimen found in the stomach of the cod was a 
Sea- Erdian ( Pentacta Frond), which is abundant in ten fathoms, hard bottom, 
along our whole New Eng! 
C. W., Weathersfield, Conn.— The e minute insect infesting the _ in your house, 
and which spins a thread d like a eee isa ws omy a The 
considerable dam ——— to ro. webs, and eating holes in the leaves. The best 
premna f is to Spo A at owdered 8 “Sulphur With a pair of bellows, for which contrivance 
several patents 
J. A. H. B., Falkirk, N. e works of Professor Baird comprise all you want. 
Apply to Pa kinttheotien Taitenie for “A List of the Birds of North America.” 
W. C. F., Eastham, Mass.— The bird is the Pine Creeping Warbler, Dendroica pina. 
W. P. R., Richmond, Va.-—The sphinx, which was broken in,pieces, is the Philam- 
pelus vitis of Harris. We would like specimens for our museum. 
—+o+-—_. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
List of the Shell-bearing Mollusca of Michi n, especially of Kent and adjoining Coun- 
rat By ra by Poe Published ‘by tha Rant Scient Institute, Grand Rapids, 
ich. VO, pp. 12 
merican Bee Journal. January, 1869. pr ahinatan, D. Cc. 
spas "November 21; December gry ae ck 4 Jont 
ions o ee “er ing cies of Prina rom 
members of the Feldspar F amily sb oe oiner sh short eee ected from the 
oe of the Academy of Natural Scie ces, Philadelphia]. Philadelphia, 1868. 
o 
: Future o of Vineland. By Joseph Treat. 12mo 21. Price 15 cents. 
Insect Extinguisher. By Joseph Treat. Vi PAR N. J. 12mo, pp. 15. Price 12 cts. 
Field. November 28, December 5. London. 
Land and mae: November 7, 14, 21, og Oe on. 
hemical News. Decem 
The I Uustrated. penis Register of ural al Afeirs a, 1869, with one hundred and thirty 
avings. A I. Loe Price 30 cents. 
ihera E Hae tie bs fiber. 18. E (on a aeons 
s Month ugazine. May-November 
Sone logit nck Floras iay- Nov America, wiih Deseri cn taga of some New 
Soe < Ta cd Z lants from the Cretaceous aceous and Tertiary J. S. Newberry. 
Yor. 0, pp. 76. 
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