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above Square Island. A number of specimens of various kind were 

 taken, but the greater part of the time was spent in hand dredging. 

 The results have been sent to the Smithsonian Institution, and will 

 soon be published. Mr. Stearns is about publishing a work on 

 Labrador that will probably combine the greater part of our pres- 

 ent information on that subject. It will be uniform with his New 

 England Bird Life, the second volume of which will soon appear, 

 and probably come out under the name of the same publishers, 

 Messrs. Lee & Shepard, of Boston, Mass. 



Microscopy at the American Association. — The first meet- 

 ing of the new section of Histology and Microscopy, during the 

 Montreal meeting of the American Association, fully justified the 

 recent action of the Association in thus enlarging the scope and 

 prominence of its former subsection of microscopy. Large and in- 

 teresting sessions were held on four days during the week of the 

 meeting, and many important papers were read. Easily first 

 among the attractions of the meeting was the presence of the 

 honored leader in microscopy, Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, of London, 

 and many microscopists who have heretofore only admired his 

 judgment and skill as an author, found new pleasure in his genial 

 presence, and in his thoughtful, suggestive and conclusive remarks. 

 His rational and conservative views in regard to angular aperture 

 were received with evident approval by the audience. 



Martin's Unmounted Objects.— The unmounted material from 

 the laboratory of the late Mr. John Martin, of Maidstone, Eng- 

 land, has been forwarded by his family to the Natural Science 

 establishment of Professor Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y. 

 It consists of a variety of hairs, scales, feathers, spines, spicules, 

 seeds, pollens, sections of skin, hoofs and horns, infusorial earth, 

 diatoms, foraminifera, etc. The specimens are folded in papers, 

 and packed in small pill boxes. They are offered for sale at ten 

 cents per box. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



— Professors Silliman, Johnson and Brewer, of the National 

 Academy's committee on sorghum culture, have been visiting 

 Rio Grande, near Cape May, New Jersey, for the purpose of in- 

 specting Mr. Hilgard's sugar works there. They consider the 

 success of the method there adopted, as assured. The sorghum 

 crop has long been an important one in this country, and its true 

 status will now be more generally known, through the labors of 

 Mr. Collyer and this committee. 



■ — Dr. W. Kowalevsky of Moscow is at present in this country, 

 and is studying the fossil vertebrata of Prof. Cope's collection in 

 Philadelphia. 



'This department is edited by Dr. R. II. Ward, Troy, X. Y. 



