1878.] Scientific News. 197 
— A third session of the Summer School of Biology of the 
Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass., will open July 5th, 
and continue six weeks. Those desiring information regarding 
the course of instruction, etc., may apply to A. S. Packard, Ji, 
Director of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. 
— An important work has just been issued by Hayden’s U. 
S. Geological Survey of the Territories, entitled Contributions to 
the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories. Part II. By Leo 
Lesquereux, Washington, 1878. It forms Volume VII, of the 
quarto reports of Professor Hayden’s Survey, and is a bulky 
volume of 366 pages and 65 plates. It is divided into three parts, 
of which the first treats of the Areal Distribution, the Stratigra- 
phy of the Lignitic Formation, and its capacity for combustible 
mineral, and third, the age of the Lignitic, indicated by its Geo- 
logical Distribution and its Fauna. The second Part contains the 
Descriptions of the Tertiary Fossil Plants, while the third com- 
prises the following subjects: The Age of the Lignitic Formations 
determined by the characters of the Fossil Plants; a Table of the 
Distribution of Species, and a Table of the Distribution of the 
species of the Point of Rocks. 
— Two distinguished entomologists have just been removed by 
death: T. Vernon Wallaston, born March 9, 1821, died in Eng- 
land suddenly, January 4th ult. He will be remembered for his 
elaborate work entitled /usecta Maderensia, and his little work On 
the Variations of Species, published in 1856. she 
Andrew Murray, born February 19, 1812, died in London, 
January roth, 1878. His quarto volume on the geographical dis- 
tribution of mammals, his monograph of the beetles of the Sphen- 
dude, and of the genera Cercyon and Catops, and his papers on 
the geographical distribution of beetles, are monuments to his 
morye 
Hens Lawson, M.D., died at Cork, October 4th. He was for 
many years the editor of the Popular Science Review, and con- 
ducted the Monthly Microscopical Fournal from its commence- 
_ ment till his death, which has caused its discontinuance. 
L. Pfeiffer died at Cassel, aged 72. His Nomenclator Botanicus 
was the most useful of his laborious compilations. 
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ters: New and little known Ccelenterates ; New Echinoderms, by 
the late Michael Sars. The remaining chapters.are by Professor 
