NOTES. 



-The Natural History Association of North-western College,"* 

 at Naperville, Illinois, has recently completed its organization. 

 The following are the officers : — J. L. Rockey, President; A. 

 Goldspohn, Vice President ; J. W. Troeger, Secretary ; C. F. 

 Rassweiler, A. M., Treasurer ; Professor H. H. Rassweiler, Cu- 

 rator ; Miss N. Cunningham, Directress of the Botanical Depart- 

 ment ; C. H. Dreisbach, Director of the Mineralogical and J. W. 

 Troeger, of the Zoological Departments. 



Those who remember the ingenious section cutter figured and 



know that L. Schrauer, 13 Edgerly Place, Boston, has the patterns, 

 and can furnish them to order. He has made one for the Botanic 

 Gardens, Cambridge, and it works admirably. He is endeavoring 

 to establish a business in this branch of work including microscope 

 stands and apparatus connected with it, and we can highly com- 

 mend bis work.— E. S. Morse. 



[We cordially recommend Mr. Schrauer as an excellent work- 



The skeletons of five Indians were recently exhumed by several 

 members of the Essex Institute, in Marblehead. A farther ac- 

 count will appear in our next number. The skeletons were photo- 

 graphed in situ, and copies of the photographs are for sale by the 

 Natuiabsts' Agency. 



The undersigned is about to publish his long projected mono- 

 graph of Geometrid moths, and designs giving a figure of each 

 species. To make the work as complete as possible specimens of 



returned! or other specimens sent in exchange. — A. S. Packard, Jr. 

 EXCHANGES. 



