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in which it can be first detected is the cuticle and the cuticular- 
ized elements of the epidermis cells.—T. D. B 
NOTES. 
Pror. Agassiz read a notice of the life and character of Dr. 
E. Holbrook of Charleston, S. C., before the Natural History 
Society of Boston, Oct. 18, 1871. He remarked that :— 
larly modest nature, eluding rather than courting notice, he never- 
theless first compelled European recognization of American science 
by the accuracy and originality of his investigations. 1 well re- 
member the impression made in Europe more than five and thirty 
years ago, by his work on North American reptiles. Before then, 
the supercilious English question, so effectually answered since, 
: ds an American book?’ might have been repeated in ' 
another form, ‘ Who ever saw an American Scientific Work?’ But 
Holbrook’s elaborate history of American Herpetology was far 
above any previous work on the same subject. In that branch of 
wi omit Europe had at that time nothing which could com- 
re it. 
and 
the sp nd mor 
me ge 2u European journey had greater influence upon his future 
k than his st in ris, where he worked at the Jardin des 
