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the Boston Society of Natural History has published a thick 
quarto volume of memoirs, contributed by its members and de- 
signed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the society’s 
foundation. The scientific portion is preceded by a minute, 
detailed history of the society by its late president, Thomas 
Bouvé, Esq., which will possess great interest to the immediate 
friends of the society, and will also serve as a monographical 
account of the origin and development of our most vigorous and 
model natural history society. It appears that the enthusiasm, 
zeal, and unremitted and unpaid toil of its founders, together 
with the high scientific character of its president and officers, and 
more particularly the influence of the late Professor Jeffries Wy- 
man, led men of wealth and refinement to liberally endow it. 
* The following memoirs are contained in this elegant volume, and 
have in part been noticed in this journal, while others will be 
hereafter. Mr. Bouvé’s history occupies 250 pages, and is illus- 
trated with two plates and nine portraits. The following is the 
table of contents: 
Propositions concerning the classification of lavas considered. 
with reference to the circumstances of their extrusion, by N. S. 
Shaler (15 pp.) ; The genesis of the Tertiary species of Planorbis 
at Steinheim, by Alpheus Hyatt (114 pp., 9 pl.); The Devonian 
insects of New Brunswick, by S. H. Scudder (41 pp., 1 pl.); The 
Gymnosporangia, or cedar-apples, of the United States, by W. 
G. Farlow ( 38 pp., 2 pl.); A structural feature, hitherto unknown 
“among Echinodermata, found in deep-sea Ophiurans, by Theodore 
yman (12 pp., 2 pl.); The development of the squid, Lolzgo 
pealiit Lesueur, by W. K. Brooks (22 pp., 3 pl.); The anatomy, 
histology and embryology of Limulus polyphemus, by A. S. 
Packard, Jr., (45 pp. 7 pl.); On the identity of the ascending pro- 
cess of the astragalus in birds with the intermedium, by E. 5. 
Morse (10 pp., I pl.); Contributions to the anatomy of the milk- 
Weed butterfly, Danais archipus Fabr., by Edward Burgess (16 
Pp., 2 pl.); Studies on the tongue of reptiles and birds, by C. S. 
Minot (20 pp. 1 pl.); Notes on the crania of New England In- 
dians, by Lucien Carr (10 pp., 2 pl.); The feeling of effort, by 
William James (32 pp.); On the development of a double-headed 
vertebrate, by S. F. Clarke (6 pp., 1 pl.). 
of the shell, the mode of origi d of the mantle 
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cme? and the form and position of the gills of the Cephalopod 
™Dryo are more closely like those of the typical Gasteropod than 
