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462 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. (April, 
— Another journal, of which we have received Nos. 1 and2 
under the same cover, is the Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists 
Field Club. The ornithological, botanical and especially Dr. 
Kellicott’s notes on the early stages of certain caterpillars, are 
particularly good. Some of the articles have a pleasant literary 
flavor. 
— Professor R. Owen, the veteran comparative anatomist, though 
seventy-nine years old,is still in good health and publishing im- 
portant papers. Rumors of his ill health are contradicted, we are 
glad to see, by Nature. 
— A most-interesting paper by Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. 
S. N., assistant in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, on the Gulf 
stream, appears in the Bulletin of the American Geographical So- 
ciety. 
— A third issue is S. E. Cassino’s Scientific and Literary Gos- 
sip, edited by J. S. Kingsley. It appears once a month and con- 
tains selected and critical articles, 
— Professor P. A. Chadbourne, who died on the 16th of Feb., 
was lately president of Williams College, and at the time of his 
death president of Massachusetts Agricultural College. He was _ 
in earlier years a zealous and successful teacher of science. He ; 
gave moral and pecuniary aid to struggling students of er ; 
and though he spent little time in original research, he i 
younger men in their studies. He led the Williams Col ne 
expedition to Labrador and Greenland in 1860, when conside : 
material new to science was collected and worked up by ened 
attached to the expedition. 4 
— We neglected to record the death last year of Pop 
Leith Adams, the author of a work on tertiary mammals of ge 
and of works of travel, one relating to New Brunswick, east 
resided for a period. His chair of Natural History at Qu iM. 
College, Cork, has been filled recently by the appointment 0 a 
M. Hartog. : | 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF Sc a : 
July 25.—Mr. Meehan stated that a Broussonetta per hun- 
recently fruited Though the plant had been introduc change 
dred years, only males had hitherto been known, so that - 
from male to female had in this instance taken place. “as of Fo : 
Aug. 8.—The Rev. H. C. McCook described the is ck slaves 
mica sanguinea upon F. fusca—raids in which the bla labor % 
assist their red masters. Reds and blacks shared "a places 
raising the young. The nests of F. fusca, conspicuous 
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