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cently added to the collection at the Northwestern University, 
Evanston, were four feet long. The moss trails from the limbs 
@ la the parasitic “ Spanish moss” of the South. It is of a beau- 
tiful pea-green color. 
— The streams penetrating the Gogebic Iron range, near the 
south shore of Lake Superior, are so black with ‘discoloration 
from the ore, that fish can not live in them. This is particularly 
true of the Montreal river, the northern State line between Wis- 
consin and Michigan 
— Professor Henry L. Osborne, of Lafayette, Indiana, has 
taken the position of editor of the American Monthly Micro- 
scopical Journal, during the absence of Mr. Hitchcock in Japan 
We look for an improvement in the journal. 
—Mr. J. A. McNiel, of Binghampton, N, Y., offers for sale 
forty pieces of pottery in one-half bbl., seventy-five pieces pottery 
and fifty stone implements in bbl. These are far above the aver- 
age in style and desirability. 
— The k. k. Naturhistorischen Hof-museum in Vienna has 
begun the publication of its annals, the first and second numbers 
of Vol.1 having appeared. ` 
— A single gill-net in use among the Apostle islands, in Lake 
Superior, is three miles long and requires an entire day to empty 
and set it. 
— A portrait of Hermann Schlegel, of Leiden, may be found 
in the Altenburg Mittheilungen for 1886. ; 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Sciences held its autumn meet- 
ing at Boston, Mass., commencing November 9. The following 
papers were read: 
` ` ; i by T. Sterry 
The solar-Lunar spectrum, by S. P, i: A basis of epia ‘On th oak 
_ November roth: | ee 
__ Primitive forms of Cı phalopoda, by Alpheus Hyatt; A case of evolution in the migra- 
___ tion of forms, by Alpheus ar Litnites of the limestones of Phillipsburg, Canada; 
by Alpheus Hyatt; A chart the s i p ; yC. H. feiss 
catalogue of stars from positions in various astronomical periodicals, by C. by 
3; A catalogue of bright lines observed in the atmosphere of f i 
oO. T Sherman; On the relative motions of the Pleiades group Ato E 
ieasurements with the Königsberg and Yale College heliometers, by W. 
