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summation. We are destined also to pass Great Britain in the 

 production of pig iron. 



— Under the title of " Zo6Iogy in the University of Tokio," 

 Professor C. O. Whitman, late professor of zoology in the Univer- 

 sity of Tokio, discourses in a pamphlet of forty-lour pages on the 

 needs of a more complete endowment of a zoological department, 

 and the natural advantages enjoyed by the Japanese zoologist for 

 the study of this science. It contains interesting facts regarding 

 the land leech, the land planarian, the jumping fish, and other 

 animals. Professor Whitman is at present in Naples, studying at 

 the Zoological Laboratory, founded by Dr. Dohrn. 



— In the Iowa Legislature, on the 20th of January last, a peti- 

 tion from the citizens of Pottawatomie county, and another by 

 Messrs. Henderson and Calkins, were presented, asking for a 

 thorough geological survey of the State. Both petitions were 

 referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, which reported 

 favorably on the project. Another move has been made looking 

 toward the establishment of a Bureau of Agriculture, which shall 

 sustain an entomologist, an office which is sadly needed. 



— Queen, one of the group of elephants connected with Bar- 

 num's circus, at Bridgeport, Conn., gave birth to a baby elephant 

 last night (February 3) at eight o'clock ; weight, forty-five pounds. 

 The other baby elephant weighed one hundred and twenty-six 

 pounds at birth. At last reports mother and daughter were doing 

 well. 



— M. Pasteur has resolved to continue his researches into the 

 means of preventing diseases by destroying »>r nullifying the viru- 

 lence of the germs, and is about to visit the Bordeaux lazaretto, 

 with a view of studying yellow fever, which he hopes to conquer 

 by means of inoculation. 



— A new and most valuable feature of the Census Reports for 

 1880 are the Forestry Bulletins, prepared by Mr. C. S. Sargent. 

 Each number is accompanied by a map of some State, showing 

 the distribution of forests, with special reference to the lumber 

 industry. 



— Humboldt is the title of a new monthly illustrated magazine 

 of science in all depart:! Stuttgart and edited by 



Dr. G. Krebs. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Boston Society of Natural History, Jan. 18, 1882.— Mr. 

 Win. M. Davis discussed the classification of Lake Basins, and 

 Mr. F. W. Putnam spoke of the use of copper and bronze by the 

 early races of America. 



Feb. 1. — Professor Henry W. Haynes gave some indications 

 of an early race of men in New England, 

 showed some interesting stone implen 



