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arities of their life-history are such as to render them especially inter¬ 
esting to the student of nature and will richly compensate him for his 
trouble in investigation. 
The Boston Society of Natural History has announced its intention to 
publish as a part of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, a handsome 
quarto volume containing a series of illustrated articles in different 
branches of Natural Science, with a brief sketch of the Society’s history. 
The volume will probabiy contain several hundred pages and many plates, 
and will be issued if a sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained. 
The price of the volume will be fixed at $10. Subscriptions can be sent 
to the Secretary of the Society, Edward Burgess. 
A sixth edition of Carpenter’s “The Microscope and its Revelations,” 
is in preparation and will be ready next fall. The fifth edition is out of 
print. 
“How to see with the Microscope” is the title of a book now being 
published by Prof. J. Edward Smith. 
“The Science Advocate,” is the title of a Quarterly publication by the 
Natural Science Society of Atco, New Jersey, Henry A. Green, Editor. 
A copy of the issue for April is before us, which contains a number of 
interesting articles. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Mastodon Remains found in Jackson Co., Missouri. —The Kansas 
City Beview of Science and Industry for March, reports the finding of the 
tusk and various other osseous remains of a mastodon on a spot, some 
twenty miles east of Independence, Mo., by Dr. E. A. Ballard. The tusk 
had evidently been lying where it was found for a very long time, and 
was in an advanced stage of decomposition, both by the action of the 
elements and the triturating and grinding process of wagon wheels, 
crushing it every time they passed over it. One man declared that he 
had known “ that ’ere log o’ wood to be there nigh onto forty year, and 
hearn that a brute animal had died there.” Others said that when it was 
first discovered, it was larger than any sapling found in that county any¬ 
where. But the log proved, as above stated, to be the monster tusk of a 
mastodon and measured, at the base (from the imprint in the clay), four¬ 
teen inches in diameter, or over forty-two inches in circumference and as 
it lay in situ twelve feet in length with a curve of probably two and one- 
half feet. At the distal end the tusk appeared to have been broken off 
