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force of the glacial upheaval. At the residence of R. J. Harney 
on the bank of the lake, the ice broke down and destroyed a 
large number of valuable fruit trees and serious fears were at 
one time entertained that the house would be carried away. 
Hundreds of spectators have visited the shore to look at the 
immense pile of ice which is now melting in the sun’s rays.— I. 
A. Lapua, Milwaukee. — From the Oshkosh Northwestern. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Foss, Man in France.—We have a great find here — Mr. 
Reviére of Paris has been carrying on excavations in a bone cave 
here for all the past winter, digging it completely out. He has at 
last obtained a nearly complete skeleton, skull perfect, of a large 
sized fully grown man, at a depth of about ten feet in the accumu- 
lated debris of the cave, and the bottom is not yet reached. Its 
Position tells of probable burial, but at that depth it means some- 
thing. The skull is well formed, judging from photographs before 
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me.—S. H. SCUDDER, Mentone, France. 
MICROSCOPY. 
Derep-spa Lire.— One of the latest contributions to our knowl- 
edge of this comparatively new branch of science, comes in the 
form of a Report on the Cruise of the School-ship “ Mercury,” in _ 
the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. The commissioners of public chari- 
ties and corrections of New York, desiring that the practice 
voyages of the above named ship, which is used as a reformatory 
uring the early months of 1871. The microscopical interest of 
the voy age belongs to the fifty samples of sea water, partly from 
the Surface, and partly from a variety of depths, brought up by 
means of a water collecting cylinder attached to a sounding line, 
and to the specimens obtained on fourteen occasions from the’ bot- 
‘om, by means of Lieutenant J. M. Brooke’s detaching apparatus. 
Wea Henry Draper’s excellent and suggestive report, though 
the f mainly to depths, currents, temperatures, etc., presents 
ollowing in regard to organisms: ‘It needed no special 
