t $ 
1878. | Scientific News. ee. 795 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— We have received a specimen of the first number of the 
Zoologischer Anzeiger, edited by Prof. J. V. Carus. From twenty- 
five to twenty-six sheets, of sixteen pages each, will appear each 
year, a sheet about once a fortnight, we suppose. The literature 
in all departments except descriptive zodlogy is fully given by 
title; digests or abstracts of important works are given, C. O. 
Whitman's embryology of Clepsine being thus noticed. The 
Anzeiger will also contain short notices, zodlogical, zodtomical, 
faunistic, phzenological and biological, with laboratory notes as to 
improv ved methods of working, information regarding museums, 
private collections and personal notices. The plan of this zoo- 
logical index is excellent, and will ae mpe prove a most con- 
venient medium for advanced zoologist 
, — Arrivals at the Philadelphia Zoblogical Garden: I gray 
squirrel (Sciurus i SAEPE, 3 beavers (Castor fiber), born in the 
arden; 1 diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); 1 ground 
rattlesnake ( Galkina gar ia); 1 whip snake (Bascanion flagel- 
liforme); 1 black snake (Bascanion constrictor); 1 spreading adder 
(Heterodon platyrhinos); 2 brown-throated parrakeets (Conurus 
@ruginosus); 1 snake (Coluber obsoletus, confinis); 3 bald aea 
(Haliætus leucocephalus); 1 king snak e  (Ophibolis getulus); 
woodchuck (Arctomys MeD 1 robin ales migratorius); I 
snake (Coluber vulpinus); 1 rufous rat kangaroo (Hypsiprymnus 
rufuscens), born in the garden; 11 lizards (Sceloporus undulatus); 
ci ed a (Vulpes fulvus)—Arthur E. Brown, Supt. of Garden, 
Sept. 1, 1878. 
Commissioner of Agriculture has appointed Mr. A. R. 
Grote, of Buffalo, N. Y., Wm. J. Jones, of Virginia Point, near 
Galveston, Texas, EH. Anderson, of Kirkw ood, Miss., and Prof. 
Comstock, of Cornell University, ‘observers, under the control of 
the entomologist of the Department, to make investigations and * 
study the action of the cotton worm during the present season. ? 
ee pn 7 es eee eae EE gS eR ee CE Ce ed 
i ce Bape 
— Prof. Carl Stal, Director of the Department of Entomology 
of the Royal Museum at Stockholm, died June 13, 1878, aged 
Ei n a aaa eT ee eae a a 
forty-five years. He was a voluminous author, publishing mono- 
graphs of different antes of Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Or- 
thoptera. 
— Dr. John H. Packard reports in the Medical and siia 
Reporter (Phil., Aug. 3, P. 100) that a child six years of age blew 
from its nostrils a specimen of Geophilus, a long, slender, small, 
_ centipede-like myriopod. 
ee oe eae a 2 ee ee eT ee! ee 
_ — Herr A. Reipert, of Bensheim, Burgstrasse, Grossl. Hessen, 
-is desirous of corresponding with American entomologists with a a 
view to exchanging European for American insects. _ — 
