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NOTES. 
Dr. T. S. Hunt, F.R.S., brought forward at the late meeting of 
the American Association a new classification of the Sciences. 
Under the head Mineral Physiography he includes Descriptive 
and Systematic Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geography, and Descrip- 
tive Astronomy. Under Mineral Physiology rank Physics, 
Chemistry, Geogeny, and Theoretical Astronomy. In like man- 
ner the Sciences of Organic Nature are divided into Biophysio- 
graphy and Biophysiology, the former of which heads comprises 
Organography, Descriptive and Systematic Botany, and Zoology, 
whilst the latter embraces Biotics, Organogeny, Morphology, 
Physiological. Botany, and Zoology. 
Dr. C. C. Abbott (“ Science ”), in a very interesting paper on 
the Intelligence of Birds, records that he “ girdled ” the branches 
of an alder in which a summer warbler ( Dendroeca cestiva) and a 
white-eyed vireo ( Vireo novaboracensis) had built their nests. 
The leaves consequently withered, and the nests were at once 
abandoned. But in a similar experiment where the nest con- 
tained young birds, the parents, though annoyed at the exposure, 
remained. He placed some short pieces of woollen yarn — red, 
yellow, purple, green, and grey — near the half-built nest of a 
Baltimore oriole ; the birds made use of the grey yarns and a 
few of the purple when the nest was nearly complete, but left 
the red, yellow, and green yarns undisturbed. 
Prof. E. D. Cope (“ Science”) has discovered, in the Eocene, 
an ungulated animal with carnivorous jaws. 
We are ; happy to see that a serious movement is being made 
to establish a marine station for scientific, and especially bio- 
logical research, at Granton, near Edinburgh. 
The results of Prof. Nordenskiold’s expedition into the interior 
of Greenland must convince the world of the essential unfruit- 
fulness of Ardtic exploration. We might indeed, were the ice 
removed, find an interesting fossil fauna and flora ; but how is 
this to be done ? 
Prof. E. D. Cope’s paper on the Evidence of Evolution, as 
found in the “ History of Extindt Mammalia,” is, and was meant 
to be, a telling answer to Principal J. W. Dawson’s anti-evolu- 
tionist presidential address. 
“ Science ” characterises the climate of Minnesota by saying 
that “ cranberries and rheumatism abound.” 
