576 ; Scientific News. [ August, 
There are a good many details given regarding the arrangement 
of the plates of the calyx, and a number of Cystideans are illus- 
trated. 
— Prof. Edward Forbes and his Country, is the title of an inter- 
esting sketch of this gifted naturalist, and of the Isle of Man, his 
birthplace, prepared by Robert Garner for the Midland Naturalist, 
the journal of the associated natural history, philosophical and 
archzological societies and field clubs of the midland counties of 
England. We have seen several numbers of this journal sent to 
Hayden’s U. S. Geological Survey, and American naturalists 
would find it to be a readable, attractive periodical. 
— The Chicago Academy of Sciences = a good record 
5 progress during the past year. The total number of specimens 
n the Museum is 30,049, the shells egr to 15,000, and the 
inseri to 6,000 specimens. The list of papers read numbers 21 
titles. Explorations in Florida have been made by Messrs. Velie 
and Calkins. One hundred and ten foreign societies and thirty 
American ones send their publications. 
— The appointment of Prof. Spencer F. Baird to the Secretary- 
ship of the Smithsonian Institution, is in every way appropriate. 
Prof. Baird’s familiarity with the workings of the Institution, to- 
gether with his wide acquaintance with the sciences, and with the 
needs of scientific men, are guarantees that a continuation of its 
prosperous career awaits the Smithsonian. 
- — Entomological Contributions, No. iv., by Mr. J. A. Lintner, 
extracted from the thirtieth annual report of the New York State 
Museum of Natural History, for the year 1876, contains a variety 
of articles relating chiefly to the Lepidoptera; a few of them are 
of a practical, economic nature. 
raccoon pone Meee ae sed snakes an Han 
thinus); 2 chain snakes (ophibolus doratis triangulus) ; r scarlet 
ringed snake T S coccinea); 1 milk snake (Coluber 
obsoletus confinis); 7 colubers (Coluber salads: 2 black snakes 
(Bascanion constrictor) ; 3 water snakes (Zropidonotus apea ; 
1 copperbelly snake (T. sipedon erythrogaster); 4 garter 
snakes (Eutenia pone 2. anr eng (E. sirtalis taney: 
1 young snake (Bascanion [?]) from Indiana; 1 copperhea 
(Ancistrodon contortrix); 2 milk aisle (C. obsoletus con- 
nis); 1 pine snake (Pitvophis melanoleucus); 14 prairie ee 
-~ (Cynomys ludovicianus), born in the garden; 4 ruffed grouse 
 (Bonasa umbellus), born in the garden; I spotted cavy (Calogenys 
paca); 1 mule deer (Cervus macrotis), born in the garden ; 2 gray 
ophers eee franklinii); 2 common marmosets (Hassale 
hus); oat (Putorius erminea); 1 fallow deer (Dama vul- 
vana born in the s 1 lizard Le : 
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