688 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [August, 1881. 
scribed tablets, 32 mound-builder’s pipes, 25 copper axes, 300 
copper beads, 14 copper awls, and a great number and variety of 
other relics from the mounds of this region, constituting the most 
extensive, rare and unique collection of its kind in this country 
and probably in the world. : 
Besides these, this department contains 225 vessels of ancient 
pottery, over 1000 stone implements, and 10,000 of flint, beside 
about an equal number of broken ones and fragments worth pre- 
serving. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, July.+-Restoration of Dinoceras 
mirabile, by O. C. Marsh. Observations on the structure of 
Dictyophyton and its affinities with certain sponges, by R. P. 
Whitfield. Later Tertiary of the Gulf of Mexico, by E. W. 
Hilgard (with valuable colored map). Turquois of New Mexico, 
by B. Silliman. ahs 
GeotocicaL Macazine, June.—Subsidence and elevation, by 
J. S. Gardner. The mammoth in Europe, by H. H. Howorth 
ANNALS AND Macazine oF Natura History, May.— Male 
eels compared with the females, by C. Robin. 
June.—On the originally bilateral character of the renal organ 
of Prosobranchia, and on the homologies of the yelk-sac 
Cephalopoda, by E. R. Lankester. 
v FUR MIKRoskopiscHe ANATOMIE, March 8.—On the 
distribution of phosphorescent organs in fishes, by B. Solger. 
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE, June 14, 
1881.—The structure of the stigmata in insects, by O. Krancher 
(elaborately illustrated). Revision of the Holothuria of Mer- 
tens-Brandt, by H. Ludwig. On fish psorosperms, by O. Biitschii. 
Studies on the Bopyridz, by R. Kossmann. 
ANNALS DES ScIENCES NATURELLES, February.—On a new and 
very small species of Crocidura from Madagascar, by M. Troues- 
sart. Memoir on the birds of the family Megapodiide, by M. 
Oustalet. Memoir on the disposition of the cervical vertebra in 
the Chelonians, by L. Vaillant. 
Canapian Enromovoaist, June.—Description of the prepara- 
tory changes of Papilio palamedes (calchas), by W. H. Edwards. 
PsycuE, organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club, January. 
—On the number of molts of butterflies, with some history of the 
moth, Cadlosamia promethea, by W. H. Edwards. 
PaPiLio, organ of the New York Entomological Club, June.— 
On Pieris bryionia, and its derivative forms in Europe and Asia, 
by W. H. Edwards, 
