222 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. [February 
common mammals. A number of illustrations, especially of 
birds and mammals, appear in it not contained in the larger vol 
ume. It isa book of 334 pages. 
— An admission fee of fifty cents is now charged visitors to 
the ostrich farm at Anaheim, Cal. The object of the tariff is to 
discourage the rush of visitors, who seriously interfere with s 
work of the farm. The birds are breeding and require carefu 
attention and freedom from disturbance. i al 
— Major J. W. Powell is delivering some lectures on Soci 
Evolution before the Philosophical Society of Washington. 
— Mr. Robert B. Tolles died Nov. 18, 1833, at Boston, Po 
many years Mr. Tolles held the highest place in America as i 
manufacturer of microscopic lenses and triplets, as well as w 
microscopic apparatus, devised by himself. His death 1s 4 
to the scientific world. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
ATURAL 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY va pea ain 
SCIENCES.—Oct. 3.—Professor Heilprin discussed the 
raneity of geological formations. festing 
ct. 11.—Rev. Dr. McCook spoke of the parasites fies, 
the cocoons of spiders. The cocoons of ichncuey 
the genus Pezomachus, were found in the cocoons 0 were i 
riparia and Epeira atrata of the Pacific coast, but eee the last- 
their turn infested by chalcidians. From the cocoon ee i 
named species several small beetle larvæ of the ae the genus 
ma were also extracted, together with some ants o! " 
Solenopsis. s bairdii, 4 
Oct. 18.—Mr. J. A. Ryder described Gastrostom depths of 
strange fish dredged off the Massachusetts coast a de betwee 
from 500 to 3000 fathoms. A comparison was mT n, Inthe 
this species and the Eurypharynx of the Mediterra oped, 9 
American form the jaws are still more remarkably The extensi- 
‘that they are seven times the length of the head. aie from the 
ble membrane of the upper jaw, and the pouch pen m the body 
lower, cause the mouth to be a vast funnel, to wer is partly 
seems an insignificant appendage. Probably the tacle. The 
digested, as well as collected and stored, in this receP 5 are me 
gills are placed far behind the skull, the gill-op wore” is sitt 
pores, the opercular bones are absent ; a membranous tly into te 
ated near the tail, and the ova, as in eels, drops direc 
alimentary canal. The eyes are functional. : ü the sol 
Nov. 1.—Mr. J. Willcox detailed his observations ga that thë 
of parts of Canada and New York, and stated his be retreat had 
great glacier had removed the original soil, and in es be fount 
deposited the existing coat, always thinner than that oe 
