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as widely useful as possible, a copy of each one, together with a 
set of the stereoscopic slides which were used for its illustration, 
will be sent to each normal school in the State. The series, which 
begins on October 18, is the commencement of a course of lec- 
tures which is to extend over four years, and be conducted in the 
same way and for the same object. The Legislature has appro- 
priated $18,000 to defray the expenses of these lectures. 
— A tidal wave burst into the harbor of New Haven, Conn., 
at 11 o'clock, Dec. 22. It is now believed that there must have 
been a convulsion of the earth in Long Island sound, directly off 
the harbor, or near by, for at quarter past eleven a tidal wave, 
crowned with foam and fully eight feet high, came rolling into 
the bay from the south, traversing the entire length of the harbor, 
which is four miles long. It had a speed of about twelve miles 
an hour, and moved with an ominous rushing sound, like the 
blast of a hurricane, carrying destruction in its path. 
— The second Abtheilung, Arthropoda, of the Zoologischer 
Jahresbericht for 1883, was issued in November. It has been 
prepared by Drs. Paul Mayer and W. Giesbrecht, assisted by a 
corps of specialists. It is a most indispensable work to the zoolo- 
gist; and this part is very full in abstracts of and reference to 
the entomological literature of 1883. It is a product of the 
zoological station at Naples. 
— The Johns Hopkins University circulars for December con- 
tain abstracts of essays on the following topics: Ona new law 
of variation, by W. K. Brooks; Method of formation of the 
trochosphere in Serpula, by W. H. Conn; The gill in Neptunea, 
by H. L. Osborn; On the presence of an intracellular digestion in 
Salpa; On the structure and affinities of Phytoptus, by J. P. 
McMurrich. 
By the death of Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen, 
his residence near Guildford. He was associated with the late 
Edward Forbes in work on marine zodlogy, and edited and con- 
tinued Forbes’ Natural History of the European seas. 
— The professors of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences have organized themselves as a faculty and elected 
Professor D. G. Brinton dean, and Professor Angelo Heilprin, 
Secretary, 
-— At a December meeting of the London Western Micro- _ 
Scopical Club Mr. F. Cheshire showed some beautiful specimens 
of bacilli which produce disease among bees. 
