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Eprrors” TABLE. 
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Recenr LITER 
“onde A se ‘Hillhouse's eri Botany. -- 357 
Recent Books and Pamphlets .....+.-.- . 358 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Geograp hy and Travels. — America: 2 The age = 
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. Association; Dr. Lents s Journe 7: De Fischers Last 
Journey; African Notes:—Asia: The Dragon Lake; 
Japan: Agian an; Asiatic oo ten Ge and 
Oceanica: The New Britain Group; New Guinea . 360 
Geolagy a Frugunacks and — 
ders Deco omposition in Southeastern Miss 
_ The Dinosaurian Genus Ceiarus.— Geological iNews, 366 
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Yip ktnerah me Nine Par vies of North 
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Entomology. ie se in New York— =~ 
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England.— Function of the Palpi in Chilopods and 
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