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point hitherto attained, and were made expressly for his investi- 
gations by Messrs. Powell and Lealand. 
— The first number of the Bulletin of the Scientific Labora- 
tories of Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, edited by Pro- 
fessor C. L. Herrick, contains the following articles : 
TT. je the evening poea (Hesperiphona vespertina Bonap.), with Plate 1 
and frontispiece, by the 
Metamorphosis of shytlopod ands with Plates v-vi1t and Plate x, by the 
edito 
Superpose: a buds, with Plate xu, by Aug. F. Foerste, class of 87. 
Limicole, or mud- ee Crustacea, with Plate rx, by the editor 
Rotifers of Am a, Part 1, with descriptions of a it genus and several new spe- 
cies, with Plates II-IV and Plate x X, by the ed 
The ee gro oS Saa with descrip'i ions of new Feeds: with Plates xm and 
XIV, u 
A totibend of Serer manipula ation, Chapter 1, Lithological manipulation, ac- 
companied by a con EEEN translation of Eugene Po Tables for the deter- 
mination of rock-form ing minerals, by the edito 
The whole forms a volume of 180 adi with fifteen plates, 
and affords good evidence of the scientific zeal and energy of the 
scientific corps of this institution. 
— At a recent meeting of the Royal Society, Dr. Downes read 
à paper on the action of sunlight on micro-organisms, in which 
he called attention to the fact that the observations made by him- 
self and Mr. T. Blunt, described in papers contributed to the 
rere during 1877-79, had been corroborated by other investi- 
gators. Dr. Downes now asserts that the hyperoxidation of pro- 
living organisms are SR by protective developments of cell 
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representative of the diastases, is also oxidized by sunlight— 
English Mechanic 
— A question SS should be very much obliged to anybody for 
some SS mang on the following points, regarding Menopoma, 
hiuma, Necturus and Siren 
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i forms, and i n what season ?—Dr. G. Baur, Yale Col 
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gical Soc i n printed in separate form, and : 
He discusses the way in which the enormous 
atter poured into the Atlantic is thickness are = 
