TANS 3 
256 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BOOKS RECEIVED. 
A Frencn Association for the Advancement of Science, has ; 
been started. The annual meetings will be held in the various 
towns and cities. Over 100,000 francs, in shares of 200 francs 
each, have already been subscribed by the founders of the Asso- 
ciation, 
Tue Smithsonian Institution has recently succeeded in obtain- 
ing two complete skeletons of the remarkable tapir of the high- 
lands of the United States of Colombia, known to naturalists as 
Tapirus pinchaque or Roulini. Previously only the skull had- 
been obtained by Roulin, by whom it was first made known, and 
it was one of the rarities of the great anatomical collection at 
Paris. The Smithsonian Institution had before obtained a number — 
of skulls and a skeleton of the still more remarkable tapir of 
Panama, which had remained undistinguished from the common 
species of Panama till within a few years, when first described, 
under the name of Elasmognathus Bairdii, by Prof. Gill, from : 
two skulls in the Smithsonian collection. There are no externa 
or dental differences between the tapirs corresponding Y with the 
marked differences in the skulls; the external differences being 
confined to the contour of the forehead, the color; a 
character of the hair. ae 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
ne frit 
SENSITIVE OAT.—The sensitive or animated oat, as it is usually cn of Ga 
of Avena pernu L. It is a native of the Barbary States and the region ; 
but as it is not unfrequently cultivated as a curiosity ithas Se region sparing re rem bem i 
wG 
A Maby places. Although not often found in gardens in thi 
dificulty i in getting seed from any of the larger dealers or florists 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
pe, Edited 
Zoological Record for 1870; being vol. 7 of the Ree ord of Zoological | Li tugil.. 
Alfred Newton. 8vo; p cloth. London. Zoological Record Ass porto Jiustration 
Tepen book ok of British pie with full Descriptions of an n spe ae an olored plate, 
. Y . Cooke. vols., 8v0, 981. oodeuts tion 
TANAN and. New York, Macmillan & Co, Past l. e 
The Metric System of Weights and Measures; an Address delivered Rechte ee Á P. 
the University of the State of Nete York, at Albany, Aug. 1, 1871. By College. sra 
cloth. 1s tion, printed by order of the Board of Trustees of Colu mbia hief 
Geological euy of Ohio. Report of Progress in 1870. By J. S. N E: 
reports by E. B. Pp ee Edward Orton, J. H. Klippart. 
G. x meri ley, Chemists G. i, M. C. Rend, He fenty Newton W. B. Potte 
Bi 
ket. $ 
8vo, clo uts with map P 3 oe . 
State Second Report of the Geological parece of ‘nah made during the yaar a 304, 
State Geologist, assisted by John Collett and G. M. Levette. Svo, cloth, PP ung. 
k Also contains * Manual of the Botany of Je ferson Co.,” by A- Walling 
New of the Botan ennsylvan By Thomas C. Porter. (From 
ia f Penn ) Folio. pp.2, and map. 1872, 1871. 
Notes on Podisoma, By M.C, Cooke. 8vo, pp. 14. 2 plates. London. 
On Nucieated Sporidia, By M, C. Cooke. Svo, pp. 4 kondon. 1871. 
