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576 Scientific News. [May, 
etc. So many applications have been made to the Coast Survey 
for data for maps of particular parts of the country, that the Bu- 
reau has determined upon the compilation of data for a general 
map of the United States on a scale of ten miles to the inch, which 
will be exhaustive and complete so far as that scale will allow. It 
will be superior to anything in the map line hitherto issued by the 
government. The map will be published in several parts, 
form a sort of atlas, the New England States being in one part, 
and equal amounts of territory coveted by the others. This map 
will be issued probably during the coming year. 
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worse than further the biological studies so well begun in this 
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regarded as normal. They examined about 150 different i51% 
taken in the channel and the Mediterranean, and ina 
found in the peritoneal liquid, in the lymph, in the blo ait the 
in all the tissyes, microbes more or less numerous, having ction. 4 
characters of land-microbes and capable of similar re Nees (In 
These organisms were mostly the bacterium called ee : 
other vertebrates, it is to be noted, microbes are not fou oo 
blood and the lymph.) The authors cultivated the microbes S" 
cessfully. They also repeatedly made an experiment W por | 
sisted in putting a whole fish or part of it in paraffine ted with 
120° or 140°. - After solidification the paraffine was C2% 5c thus 
several layers of collodion and Canada balsam. The pee? 
guarded from atmospheric germs, all showed, after er 
an extremedevelopment of microbes (which were =a es 
putrefaction). The authors propose to investigate 
