848 Scientific News. 
experiments or observations may appear at the time, every new — 
fact once well established will sooner or later assume its appro. 
priate place as a part of some future generalization; the chain of — 
facts leading to a great discovery being united together like liv- i 
ing things, each linked, those that have passed away with those 
still to come.” 
— Two Japanese naturalists, I. Iijima and C. Sasaki, have pub- 
lished in English an appendix to Memoir, vol. 1, part 1 of ti ] 
Science Department of the University of Tokio, on the Okadaira — 
shell mound at Hitachi. The contents of this mound are com- 
pared with those from the Omori shell mounds described and j 
figured by Professor E.S. Morse. The pottery, stone and horn and 4 
bone implements are of the same primitive nature as those from : 
the Omori mound. Among the great quantity of bones onlya 
single human one was detected. This was a femur roughly broken 
off at each end, and from the fact that it was broken in the same 
way as the bones of other mammals, the authors suggest that it 
might be taken as an evidence of cannibalism. Bones of the mo 
also occurred, which are regarded as “ cases of intrusion unless . 
we suppose the wild ox has existed in Japan.” The illustrations Í 
are well drawn and printed by Japanese artists. 
— The Zoôlogischer Jahresbericht for 1882, 1v, PEEN a 3 
tebrata, has been lately received (June 23). It forms a volumeo — 
300 pages, and has the same excellencies as have paul aa 
its predecessors, 7. e., the full abstracts of articles and wor ek | 
general nature, as well as matter pertaining to systematic 20010 
— The French Société d’Acclimatation has geben the goli : 
medal offered by the minister of agriculture to Dr. arte Aa 
famous embryologist, for his researches in artificial incu 
: m 
—Alphonse Lavallée, head of the very enten rene 
at Segre, near Paris, died in June last at the age ple and 
He was the leading European collector and student a we d wat 
the author of the Arboretum Segrezianum ; his lates atis, while 
an illustrated monograph of the large flowering Clem an illus- 
at the time of his death he had nearly ready for the press, 1 
trated monograph of the genus Cratægus. f Lipp- q 
— A brief memoir of the late Dr. Hermann wif thesale 
stadt, has been written by Ernst Krause, the prone e brochure 
of which are to be added to the “ Müller Fund. sed, and the 
contains an excellent autotypic portrait of the Geer aia write 
memoir is accompanied by a chronological list o . a 
ngs. 
* þotan- 
_ —The death is announced at Breslau of the pia th year. 
ist and palæontologist, ‘Dr. Géppert, in his eighty-f0 
