1885.] Scientific News, | 737 
— The Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Bruns- 
wick, No. 1v, contains the following papers: A preliminary list of 
the plants of New Brunswick, by James Fowler; The surface 
geology of Fredericton, N. B., by W. T. L. Reed; The inverte- 
brates of Passamaquoddy bay, by W. F. Ganong; the more val- 
uable being G. F. Matthews’ on recent discoveries in the 
Saint John group, with a letter from Professor A. Hyatt. _ 
— Among recent works on fishes which have appeared in Eu- 
rope are the second and third parts of Professor Lilljeborg’s 
“ Swedish and Norwegian Fishes,” prepared in the same thorough 
manner as his late work on Scandinavian mammals. From Wil- 
liam Sorensen we have received an important physiological and 
anatomical treatise on the organs of hearing in fishes, a book of 
245 pages with four excellent plates. The Dipnoi have been 
studied anatomically and physiologically by Howard Ayres, 
Ph.D., whose memoir appears in the Jena Zeitschrift, and is illus- 
trated by numerous figures. 
— The annual meeting of the American Society of Micro- 
scopists will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, 1885, and 
while of especial interest to microscopists is of interest to stu- 
dents in every departmont of science. The working session, in 
which the most approved and original methods of microscopical 
investigation will be practically demonstrated by leading experts, 
will be of value to all working naturalists and students. 
— The lectures on natural history now being delivered to the 
school teachers of the city of New York, by Professor A. S. 
Bickmore, have, as we personally know, proved a decided suc- 
cess, both in point of numbers and interest manifested both in the 
lectures and exhibitions of specimens to the audience in the 
work-rooms of the American museum at Central park. 
— The next meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science will be held at Ann Arbor, Mich., begin- 
ning Aug. 26, 1885. The Entomological Club will meet at that 
place Aug. 25th. 
— The British Association will meet at Aberdeen, Sept. oth. 
The president is Sir J. W. Dawson; the president elect, Right 
Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, K.C.B. 
— The French Association for the Advancement of Science 
will meet this year at Grenoble, on Aug. 13, under the presidency 
of Professor Verneuil. 
— Lrrata—Page 608, line 14, for he read we. 
= 608, “ 33, “ Fregana read Freyana. 
“ 609, “ 17, “ sub-lined read six-lined. 
