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2 È lorida; 1 rufous rat kangaroo (Hypsiprymus ahai 
born e garden : I pig-tailed macaque (Macacus nemestrinus) 
1 rhesus monkey (Macacus erythreus), India; 6 hog-nosed snakes 
ioaevoden J PEE I garter snake (Hutenia sirtalis parietalis), 
O; 1 opossum ( Didelphys numa: 2 gray lizards (Scelopo- 
i 
_ rus undulatus), New Jersey ; 1 black snake (Bascanion constrictor); 
I water snake (7) aos rhombifer), Illinois; 1 brindled gnu 
(Catoblepas gorgon), South Africa; 1 common qu uail (Ortyx vir- 
ginianus); 2 whooping cranes (Grus americanus); 2 sandhill — 
cranes (Grus aang as North America; 2 red coatis (Wasua 
nasica rufa), Sout merica ; I elk Cervus canadensis), born in 
the garden; 2 tortoises (Testudo tabulata), South America; 
I gray squirrel a carolinensis); 2 common hoopoes (Upupa 
epops), Europe, Asia and North Africa; 1 jackdaw (Corvus mone- 
dula), Europe and Asia; I sickle-billed curlew (Numenius longi- 
rostris), Atlantic States; 1 night hawk (Chordeiles virginianus), 
pe States; 4 common chameleons (Chameleo vulgaris), 
uro sia and North Africa; 1 Yarrell’s curassow (Crax 
POENE DPKS Brazil; 1 screech owl (Scops asio); 1 cat-bird — 
carolinensis); 1 green linnet (Ligurinus chloris); 1 chaffinch 
(fringilla cated), Great Britain ; 2 white-footed mice bon 
leucopus), United States ; 1 Savannah deer (Cervus savannarum), 
born in the garden. — Arthur E. Brown, Gard. Supt. 
— AMERICAN NATURALIST. The numbers of this journal 
issued during the past year were published at the following 
March, īgth; May, April 22d; June, May 22d; July, June 28th; 
August, July 27th; September, August 21st; October, Septem- 
ber 23d; November, October 30th ; December, November 29th. 
— Editors. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SciENCES.—The semi-annual meeting 
was held at New York, November 5-7. A report to Congress, 
of the various geodetic, geo- 
go oe and geological surveys of the United States, was adopted 
y the emy. The following papers on natural science were read 
ana dnigaid: The early types of insects, by S. H. Scudder ; On 
the arrangement of the exhibition rooms in the Museum of Com- 
parative Zodlogy at Cambridge ; Arrangement of a zoological ma- 
rine laboratory at Newport; On the embryology of the gar pike; 
On some of the zodlogical results of the United States Coast 
Survey Steamer Blake, by Alexander Agassiz; On some remains 
of new Dipnoan fishes and their relation to living forms ; On some 
_ mooted points in American geology, by J. S. Newberry ; On the _ 
characters of Theromorphous reptiles, by E. ope; Noteonthe _ 
-Two-ocean Pass, Wyoming Territory; On the ‘discovery of recent — 
_ glaciers in the Wind River mountains; Plan of a general geolog- © 
