1882.] 
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the preparation. The first year’s issue will include a series of 
twenty-six histological, eighteen botanical, and eight petrological 
preparations. There can be no doubt of the high educational 
value of the work. Mr. Cole’s, preparations are well known to 
students, and the list of contributors to the literary department 
promises well for the success of the undertaking. 
At the May meeting of the Entomological Society there was 
exhibited a hybrid between Anthercea Pernyi, the oak-feeding 
silkworm of North China, and A. Roy lei, an oak-feeding silk- 
worm of the Himalayas. It was remarked that the insedt fauna 
of North China has much stronger Himalayan affinities than that 
of Middle and South China. Hence the question was raised by 
Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., whether the two parent forms, which 
have a very close morphological resemblance, were truly distindt 
species or mere local varieties. 
Mr. Ryder (“ American Naturalist”) reports on experiments 
to delay the development of fish eggs for convenience of trans- 
portation. At 53° F. development was slow, but normal, up to a 
certain point, when a fungus was formed upon the egg-membrane. 
Below 53° the development became abnormal, and 43 0 proved 
fatal. Prof. Brocks finds in oyster eggs the phenomena of seg- 
mentation and nuclear division, and Mr. Ryder holds that there 
is a diredt relation between these phenomena and heat as a mode 
of motion. 
We are glad to see that the Dublin Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals, in appealing for wider support, finds it 
advisable to add — “No connection with any Anti-Vivisection 
Society A This is a healthy sign of the times. 
M. H. Filhol (“ Comptes Rendus ”) states that P. Gervais has 
discovered, in the Upper Eocene of Debruge, remains of a mam- 
malian form allied to the Suidse. This form, to which P. Gervais 
gives the name of Cebochcems, offers analogies with the Simiadse 
in the form of the molars, the elevation and the shortening of 
the cranium, and the form of the temporo-maxillary articulation. 
The Congress of German Naturalists and Physicians will 
meet this year on September 17th, and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science on August 23rd, at Montreal. 
Sir J. Lubbock (“Journal of Linnean Society”) concludes, 
from a P r °l° n g e d and careful series of experiments, that bees 
distinguish colours, and have a decided preference for blue. 
M. Gouty, of the Museum of Rio de Janeiro, states, in a com- 
munication to the Academy of Sciences, that potassium perman- 
ganate has been recommended as an antidote to snake-poison 
without sufficient experimental proof. It does not annul the 
adtion of the poison when the latter has penetrated into the 
blood or into the tissues. 
