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Arctic coast on the north, and the borders of Mexico closely 
adjacent to the United States on the south. The citation of 
deal of herbarium låbor, and will give an undoubted stimulus to 
botanical studies. 
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.—Some microscopical observations of the P 
a T: rd. By Persifor Frazer. (Read before the Am. Philos. Society, jee 
5th, 1877). 8vo, pp. 16. 
The Lattevite Limestones, &c. By Jas. Hall, Aner pumas of New York, 
Vol. V, part 2. Advance e sheets, Nov. 1877.) 4to, 
Studier öfver mjölkdentitionen och tändernas e hos Chiroptera. Af 
Wilhelm Leche. 4to, pp. 47. Pl. 2. Lund. 18 
Studien über das Milchgebiss und die Zah nhomologien bei den Chiropteren, von 
Me “1877 Leche. An abstract of the proceeding i in Archiv f. Naturgesch, xxxxiii. 
Report no Joseph Henry, Seona of the Smithsonian Institution, for the 
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pr Sat Ontolog gical regions of t e Earth, and the lew s that govern the distribution 
of animal li By Joel ro Allen. Bulletin of the U. S. Geolog. and Geograph. 
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On the Janssen Solar j TERE and Optical Studies. By S. P. Langley. Svo, 
pp- 5. New Haven, 1878. 
\ coiiypaiy a la theory in n ophthalmic Proe disproved by a crucial ex- 
perimen y Henry Hartshorne, M.D. 8vo, pp. (Extracted from the Am 
Tobe Med. Sciences, for April, 1378 
ter Supply = the State of New Je rsey. Report of a Committee, A. R. Leeds, 
Chairman. 8vo 17. Philadelphia, 1878. 
n the hake: Coal Pasi ve shale of the Huron River, Ohio, nes seams 
of Sulphate of Baryta. B eeds, with a geological note by J. S. 
e BVO. 
Notes on the as in hea orth-west, in 1876. By George mE $ G S; 
` &c. (From the Canadian Naturalist, Vol. VIII, No. 7.) 8vo, pp. 7- 18 
On the Mechanical Gene of Tooth-forms. By Jno. A. Ryder. (Eee. Phil. : 
a len Sci. 1878.) p. 36. 
| for a t Bibliography of North American Mammals. By Theodore Gill 
ee Elliot Cou ndix B, extracted from the eleventh volume of the final © 
reports of the aan Si vey. 4to, pp. 131. Government Printing Office, 
Washington, 1877. : 
Original memoirs and clinical lectures. By H. C. Wood, Jr. 8vo, PP: 4- Phil- 
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Rechercties sur ise fossiles ayn? With de la Nouvelle- a du Sud (Australie); 
par L.-G. De nck, Docteur en Sciences, etc aig Oe ee 
panied by 4to ER hes V_-XXIV. S | 7 3 
Paleontological Bulletin, No. 29, Descriptions of ‘ing Batrachia and Reptilia 
from the Permian Formation of Texas. TDC ae ri shed May 8, 1878.) 
os Trea und Entwikelung des Ostsee- Har ee C. Ku 
i senschafilchen Untersuchung der 
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