Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1879, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ing head and body alone. Hind foot not over 1,10 nor upder 0.95.” Genus Jleyxeromys. ~ Bubuenus Ferperimus, ML (V.) Lencopua,\White-footed Deer Monse,” Under this titie Dr. Cones writes five supposed species hitherto known as ‘M. Leucopms," oy Y M poides Ansterin,” amid “iraclis.” In ailditfombo admits tho threo (ulluwmt( co- eeaphieal races or varieties sutficlently distinet to merlt varictal nawes, ‘*although they pass fusensiuly fita ordinary Leucopus W JL. Leucopnn (ionsypinus,” Habitat—Bouth Atlantic Btates, Konsnat SATURDAY. JANUARY ¢d, 1t 1s often crsantial to rave aoace and togive | thia quarto-publications of the United Btates sclentile aceuracy by their nse. Frof. Alicw's | Geolugienl Furvey of the Tesrlaries, F. V. Hay- nonograph argaleo free from the Lutin diag- | den in charge, Department of the Interiory nosea found at the bezinuing of Dr, Couea’ de- | Government print.) W, il Batrou. seritlon of species, A Iatzn proportion of {he (S Daturalists of the present time know nothing of | T PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN. Latin, amd to them Lotin dfagnosen aro useluss, T the Kditor of The Trisune. L e L e s T niero | eimiakon T N taat: it against them, unlesa it fs that the wording of e i i o i ahtd poplarizae | irdag you published an abitract of W. W. Yion at she present time. ‘The remaining soecies | Btory's contribution to the North Ameriean of the Kodentia as reduced and given in these | Hepiew entitled * The Pronunciation of the monographa are as follows (given in theorder | g, ¥ e that M“‘vflmm 1 the honk): Latin Language.” You Introduced the author SLVE PAGES: 18, 1879—=TW! Ty work le tlemen, The Dukeof De Warwick, and the Queen have gencronsfy con- tributed. One of tha richest sources of ‘losns {n thisease hon been found at Chriat Church College, Oxford, where for n great many years a very numerous collection of drawings by old masters has lain nonoticed sinee ten, Gulse be- queathed them 1o the Coliege, ‘Tne masters mast richly represented are Leonaplo, Mon- tegna, Corregeiv, and Rembranat. Not fewer thian 100 works are aseribed Lo the last. * A lnrge proportion of these,” nays the Athenaum, * are of incomparable merlt.’” Death by H.H. W. E. Chaghing | nodily movementa, as v.alking, ete. Speclally writes the * Children's Ronez ¥ William AllIng- | intercsting was tha Increase in consumption ob- ham writes ** Amy Margaret,”” Anprey do Vero | gerved during 8 teinporary indisnasition of the ia the author of *“Eil," A, B, Aleott af © Eu- | author, Shortly beforo and during the sflment menfdes," aud Mrs. Annie Flelds of * Theoerl- | Jow values were had : but as he grew better the tas.” which a3 been clnimed, 08 8 ) values ross nain. By infensitylng his breathing matter of course, - for Mr. Stedman. | he could considorably increaso the timo in which “#Tho Unseen Preacher?” fs by Miss F.. 8. Phclpt. | the absorption bands dissppeared, ete. Jvis “Outober Bunda;* hy Jolin Welss, * Henedicom | notable that the dissociation of the oxshrm- Domino' by Susan Coalidge, sttributed aiso by | oglohin occurs In sbout two minutes—L, c., ahout the riadle guessers to o **sly Lady’s | the time in which snppfession of breathing is Voice! by R. Il Bowker, **Through a Window | found to cause the gravest phicnomena Inthe Pane'? by J. J. Piatt, * Awakening? by Mrs. | aystem, Celia Thaxter, and *'The Marehesf Glynn®! by LITERATURE. ul " Monographs of the North American Rodentia, by Dr, Elliott Coues. Iy angmy o e as * an eminent scholar, skilled both In Latin Stiney Lanfer. The volume 4 {ainly graced B The Pronunciation of the Latin AN el oI p[x);:l?rré?r: 2}'&’."1’5.’.’.-’,7,".5,”1(3 LAICY: ith & varlety, | #nd Ttalian,” but ss the gist of his article s a m”,,‘,’f,’fl:"fl'l"‘,’l'fi““"(g',’,‘","’:::A{;’,{ ithe dtatna i iy o iy Tarentis seta, | IR s TENLED: . Language---A Reply to Arctic rogluns to Yexico, Aretcus. severccrltitism of and an absoluto protest | JFanclale, which bs 0 b etatue of Descartes, 14 | A1t will be no less heartily enjoved by the Bl th Fo i reader becanee hie 18 niot oblized to tread on ejrs—New Yurk Tribune. Mrs. Browning's lines on Chaucer In her Vis- IT, Leucopn Erawenn, Desert Mouse, [abl- tat—=Vallcy of the Gila and Colorado,” Under the same subgenus Vesperimus are: *4 7. Aureolua, Red Mousa Giolaen Mouse, Fabl- tat, Central and Nouthiern States, This elozant specien ay usually be distinguished at aglance by the pecullar and beautiful tint of the fur, a’'rieh golden einnumon, a littie darker from ad- mixture of blackish iafrs along the hack. . . . Lepus Campertris, prairio hare. aualnst tho German methed of propounciug the Lepus Amerieanus, Northern varying hare— WL ety s omaintanise, Bouthiern va. | L:atin laagusge, It fs of paramatint_iipariance esing hares Washingtoni, Wester Ing hares | to ktow whether the writer Is as much skilled s Moy Bt var ing hare. in German os i Latin, _Atter reading the arth Ly Syleaticus, with threo varfeties: Sul- | cle I was fully convinced that the author wos no saticus, wood hnre; grav rabbity Nuttalll, 8826 | GGerman scholar; for, If he were, he could not hfl;;;n;flg,’;’m;m-}mmyafllflh~ conimit bimmell to tha misrepreseniations, wow open fn the Ecoledes Beaux-Arts. As many «a nincty-two models uave been sent in for com- petition; but moat of these, according to 8 rench critio, arc eitner absurdly fantastle or hopelessly commonplace, oniy a fow autong the competitors havin coutrived to grive a dignifled aapect to the great French satirist, Only vne portralt of Robelals that fs certaluly authentic In very many manufacturcs an enormous do- Mr, Story. grea of heat Is recuired for carrying ont tha o g8 varfous operations,—for fnatance, {n casting fron. tonof l“;:“:,' 12:"‘,'“’ bl it The means hitherto at our dispoeal for testing Familiar clanp of things divinas those temperatures, which sometimes require ta ‘That mark upou his 1ipa {8 wine, ba naccurately regulated, were limited by the have often ralscd donbts In the minds of her | point of fuslon of the thermometric tube, M. The Art Exhibitions in London--- Literary Notes--~Poriodical . B Totse assertions, and blunders whicl ace found | Is known to exist; but this has tot bectt fol- | readers, DId she mean by tho “mark ' the | Crova, Professor at {he Facully of Sclences ad Literature, 18, Michiyanensie, Michigan Mouse. Habltat, | - Lepua (raysont, Urayson's hare, <P Joweld with any preat accuracy in any of the | stain of quasi-Brechanalisn license twhich is i) Y es al their own notions, and representing him o8 a siint or a devil acenriding to thoir particulir cons ception of his cbaracter. TITERARY NOTES. The Londun pancrs printed long and highly~ commendatory notices of Bavard Taylor. The snow has stonped the shipmenta of books to auch n degree that we are without tbe usual supply for roview this weok. Dean 8wift’s poctleal works, making two voluines, will zoon be added to the Hiverside Edition of the * British Pocta.” “Lea fiches d'fleienot A'Ilabberton, *Ls Reine de Saba," par Baylen Aldrich, and * Lo Predicatenr Ambutant,” and Lo Mnaitre @'Ecole dn Flat Creele® de M. E. Egeleston, are bouks Just publishied at Pasls. Apropos of n just publisticd translation of the * Private ‘Theatricals, the German Magazin Jur die Lileratur dea_Anx'andes, devotes a nine- column study to its outhor, Mr. Howells. ‘TIic review (8 almost Jonger than the thing reviewed. The publication of the Duke of Argyll's “flistory of the Faetern Queetion' has, we hear, heen delayed by the outbresk of the varety Gabdl, Central Perinit me to substantiate iny criticism by a Amcrican hare, Ll few quotations. Note—Thess lattor two hares, which are con- fned to Central and Bouth Auerican disteibu. | _Mr Btory starts out from tho ldce that Ger, tion, were included tn this monograph for the | mans are very unsate guldes (n matters of :S:Aon l:x;z ‘;burf m";; :pe&'les! of thtl; famlly oc; pronunciation: for they ** unconsclously trans- south of the Uniied Biates that sre nol 8¢, Wwithout apparently recornizing any real 2180 found north of iho Lntted Btates And MOT- | Hemcranee b with o o with £ and 1, & wlth ¢ fean boandary,? Thiese have also beon fnclud- | nyaau, | with ch and z, £ with v, 8 with 2. ed, thercby rendering the present meinule & | rpiy agement containg some truth aud some :Vn’?l?x“pn“ of the Leporide of the New """’X“"" It would 1‘|" "g«lf u; it sald the Ger- ; man-Austrians and the Bouth wermans aro Lflm,fl‘;g"-i with two varetles. often gulity of such lndiscritninats bronnncia- 75 Jotia, fiyx cau bare. " tion, But by charging & whole natlon with a Teranisy N orthern 3'{“)""" aro. fault exiétent only In a part, lio tisrepresenta Ly oo f’"‘;"““v Cal l!uruh bare, the facts as much as ho would by saying thutull epus palistris, marsh hare. Engllshmen isapply the letter k. Mr. Stury Jepus aquaticus, water haro (found in swamos goes tven 80 far a8 toassert: “Itlsrareto ln}!kmnnhu:‘lltnfl South—a common specics). | jing n German who can distinctly say the single ‘pus cuniculua, Europeau hare (an intro- | gynis, Bon jour, madame,’ withotit changing e gpoclen: our somcatlcated. rabbt, some- | e of s conmuhaita—Lan choue, matutie.” X 1bey to say that ft 8 excecdingly diflicult to In closing this memolr Prof. Allen retarks on the terms * rabbit” and ‘‘hare” as fullows: fne m"fi‘:n :;l:lwa‘:}é’vfl“.’;{;fl;‘;‘:x‘:}: flm:: > Raubiz 1s the disthuctiva Eogilas naie uf the PO @ ms b Ufforo @ voweh In rep- ocies alone, Hars, ou the contrary, | rogenting on the stage & flerman speuk- {8 a8 much a geoeric or mmlfynnmuu clther | jng Eoglish, actors geuerally think they have e, wulrrel‘lmtv howk, or thrush, and may [ ouiy to t e the consonants in oriler to De properly applied to auy species of the familys | oivy the specch of o Germau, This misuike 18 + o o 1t hence follows tlut( strictly speaklng, | Ovoysabloon the stage of & variety theatre, g the terin ranbit {s ot applicable to any specics e enee, of Amerivan hara. » . o However, the term where nxmgernlmu ure of commuot veeurrenc M of the hanacent ollly prodced by wing | LrINEINg, the spectroseape o tho, aid of, the tint maketh glad “the” lieart of “mani | g ‘sticvessful, By tho means ha has The ~auestion wan at et re- | gigpicd, heats bitherto Incalculsble ean ferred to Mr. Brownlug; and by his leavo we | 0™ tutdrmined very precisel. The proc- givo s auswor; “Dear Mr. Furniea—1 | 05 SSEFURS T Broceuts ts—rougiiy always took the ‘mark of wine! o be a proof | ouiyiiz—to adopt a fixed standard, and, hav- vlnl'mu geniality and Joviality of Chaucer. ' But | fno'sortied that polut, to examine, ' by the aid have ouly my own opiuion to give you. [ | o the apectroscore, tho flames of incandescent n‘lizt.rl ':uuw it of ]b{gmml:u{ be!u:rhlnloflm“d obfecta and reduro them by interposing obstruct- i o T LI DR S only | (ves of knuwn power to the samo lovel sa -the iy imoression, which smoutts, however (for | (it 91 KM BOTED K0 LIS B ik 8 #pectro. many reasons [ eould give), to & convietlon, [ | Lpoionioter, Of corse, In such an Aapparatus mast allow.” Wi are sura that all lovers of | [IORAEE o0 SRR, ot AL Chaucer wii eladly aceent Mr. Browning's opine | o oe T e b e ture the heat fon a4 conclusive.—deadern. cmiizd by an aviyary molemior Iamp. b L o . ng olt, ani that lie tixes at 10 cgrees, In PERIODICAL LITERATURI, comparing other incandescent wabatanres The Muagasine of Art contitues to b casily | with that standard, he finds that the the b,flsl-rllcxln vetlodical of the kind publiehed. ‘h:l o4 v;flmnnlm’_r:':‘:,lfmlr:l m‘:lm':;‘l ‘The Junuaey number has Just been received, 1t.} i 5. the: clves ull the art-mews, Cosscll, Petter & Oal- | famc, tuateriel raiwed o8 whifobeat by the pin, Loudon, I'aris, sid New York, sre the pub- | 1,162; an Areand burner of ordinary gas, 1,573: lsliers, Yenrly subscriptioos, 833 stugle uuni- | the weyhyidrogen light (comnion kas and oxygen bers, 25 centa. “il llme).,l,gk'l‘fi l)m(:l'«.:'nilf ;llzll; {?‘lnv BI;n')’\c‘_l'l . - . clements), o 3 an e light of 08U, 10, The Youny Ve'ka' Rural, publishgd fo thiseity, | Carhon, lime, anit platinum, when incandoscent, Dias recently chianged handa, The new proprie- | lave the same power, and probably magnesium, tor, J. . Tallmmdye, 18 evideutly e ndeavormg | This new svatem la calculated be of vass to make tho vaper worthy of alarger patronaze, {;{mmp:fi o u'fl?«i"n’.5:7?3?’.0"{-“";?':35« R 8 1, Ua'lfornicus, Parastic Mouse. Habitat, Southiern and Lower Californin,” Under tl anecia Dr. Cones notes that specimens of mico from Northern California, Oregon, snd Wash- fogton ate darker colored than thoso of South- ern Californin, WIT, Astecus, Astec Mouse. Habitat, ¢ Mexico, yed Mouse, EHabi- w11, Melanophrys, Bla tat, Houthern Mexico.”” Under thie subgenus Onychomys nre: “ H, Leucoyaster, Missourl Mole-Mouse, abitat, Upper Missouri region, Red River of the North, WIL," Torridus, Arizon Mole-Mouse. IHabl- tat, Arlzona. 'The colurs are highly character- istic, Tho under parts and feot aro yellowish- white, or an_extremely pale buft or “fawu. It has a dark strip alone the top of the tall, the tip of which fs whitlsh. There are flufly hairs about tho ears, which have a tusky body and a silvery edging. ‘The entire upper parts arc of a warm though rather light brownish fulvis,” Under subgenus Orgzomys WJ1, Palustris, Wice-fiold Mouse, Jlabitat, Bouth Atlantic and Gult Btates, cspectally waritime portions, and in rice-flelds, cte,” Genus * Ochetodon comprises the smallest murlies of North Amerlea; the smaliest imam- mals of this_Continent, excepting some of the whrews They are hardly distingulshable trom ungrown house-mice except by thelr teeth, The Speétroscopa and the Human Body~--Determining High Temperatures, Evolution—~A Buried Forest---Eleotric- ily 'as a Motive Power— Beienco Notes, ‘LITERATURE. THE NONTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. North Amerlcan mommals are attracling a lnrge share of the attentlon of scientific men at the present time. During the past twenty years the stmouut of muaterial collected and placed av the dispusal of eminent specialista in the natural sclences is mmply cnormous. The discovéries of these years have tended largely to the development of the cvolutionary theorics of the present day. Prots. E. D, Cope and O. C. Marsh have liad a remorkable dexree of suc- cess in their inveatigations of the mammalian 0. Huns'lle, Lattlo Harvest Motise, Habitat, | rabbit wod hare have, in_the Unlted States at and probabiy necessary for producing the de- 1 k y thonh It has already a respectablo circulution | \F " Hhoiso offects deslred. M. Dumas, in 5 i} 9 " tred effect,” But o contributor to o leadlng | Afzhon war, ‘Toe Duke contemplates wrthig a g Py e 3 y cavo remains and fossil farmations of the conti- %.};ua‘;u{.‘m: fi:fi:‘u{;fll‘ryl‘gmws lfn(;:fl, B"l':;lfi:' Jenst, ceased 1o becoin dlstinetive of any spe- § TEE BLCT i Th ot to be guiity of such ¥l PEE IrEErt o Tl AP minds THDAFRGE: in most of the States of the Unlon. ‘Thie latest | bringine the matter under the notice of the 3 3 ] Y nent. To Prof. Joseph Leld$, also, la duemuch of our knowledgze of tha extinet vericbrate fauna of the United States. Foremost among Amerlean investigators and writcrs on lving forma of our mammalian tauna are Dr. Eiliott Cones and Joel Asaph Allen, the suthors of the sbove work.’ The rodents, or gnawers, are by far the largest order of mammale. Thoy constitute eleven families In Amerlca, and about two hundred rpecles, Dr. Hayden, 1o submitting the work tothe Secretary of the Interior, refera to the groun 8s lollows: *“The Rodentia constituto oneof the mostyimportant orders from an cco- nomic 08 well'as a sclentiflc stundpolat, Thouch thie specles are- mostly small and apparentlydn- sleotticant, thetr relations with man of much moment. Some of thiewm, like the beaver, the muskrat, and others, furnish hnportant srticles of commerce; while a Inree msjority of specles dircetly affect. the sgricultural futerests of the patfon, Varlous speeles occur in countless mul- titudes, and coustitule one of the most serlous obstacles with which the ugricult- urlst has to comtend ' fu many parts of the countrv. 1t s not easy, therelore, to glve_undue brominence to & group of man- mals, nceurato and full information reapecting which is ¢ssentisl to the Intelligent direction of measures to stay thelr ravages.” Twenty-ono number s got up tastefully, and will he a wel- | Academy of Sclunces, stated that he considered come visitor to thousands of firesides In city and | itas the greateat discavery of modern times, and counteys M. Bertticlot warmly supborted his statement, clile diversity or peculiarities of habit or stru repreacntations, ane? 2 2, let.e est dalyram mon seribere; it Is reul- On the scarcity sud abundance of various | 1y uu‘xfllxu ot to. burat, Tnughitg ‘when one members of the Hodentia during cortaln years, | yugg this assertion: Bolore e and § the ¢ s pro- he remarks, from the amount of evidencs on | [ vnced by thie Jtaliin as our ch ln_chureh_or pand, that tho decresss of syecios s more near- | WSS TGOS Nowr, Mr, Ed. 1y dule 1o provaillng epidemlca than to severe | Fiet Pt O el & German. Liveums 1 winters or violent deaths fram local causes. Dutva been taught Tatih during win years, [ Nine species of oxtiuct haros aro recordeds | jaye hard » wreat deal of Latin at Gerinan two of these having previously been worked up | yytyeryities, but L can assure you it i+ novel to by [Mrof. Leidysund the remuulug seven BY | me thus Gerinuus pronounce ¢ betore e orl us Frof. Cope. Thelr remaine are found mainly 0 | " “Eyery German 1 know pronuunces Latin ¢ "0~ piiase of the Eastern Question,.—Athenint, The Athengun for Dee. 2§ prints the usual snnual Teview of Jiteraiure un tiee Continent, to which Eugene Schuvler contributes the artiele on Russtan lterature, Nothiug 14 eakl sbout Ameriean books, whicin the e seem to think, are sutticlently noticed during the week. There 18 no truth in the statement that Mr. Bpencor’s works havea larcer elrealation beyotd tho Atlantie than 1o this country. As o nuatter of fact, the actual number sold in Anteries Is constderably less than heres and the pecenulury return to the suthor isout of all proportivn satler,~=Acade 1t isauthoritatively and regretfullyannounced that Bavanl Taylur liad not even liezon to write bls_ hte of Goethe, e hail cobleered vast mua- {erials, buthis notes are unintellicible 10 avy oue but himeelf, and will be (o azreat extent lost. His plan comprehended thee coplons volumes, but hls-lfe-work was ended before Lhe firsy pnge of this laat great task had beew written, Kansas, Nebraska,” I this specles Dr. Coues absorus Keithrodon Mega otis. Three other speciea are included in this genus, the third of which Dr, Coues duos not yet ln- dorso as vaiid, 0, Lang.canda ;Cnllfumh). 0. Mezicanus (Mexivo, ete.) and P O, ifantanua (Bocky Mount- Tatitude 39 dere The following excellent annlysis cnables one to readily distinguish these apecles, A, Tail shorler than head and body {(at mose barely equaling liead ond body). A. Mind fees under 0,70 inchea long (usually 0.55—0.65 lnches).—Huwis, WB, Tailonyer than head and body. sh, Hind feet under 0,30 {n(exceptionally just reachinge,70 in.), Longieauda, e, Hind feet over 0,70 1o, (rarely It ever fall- fuz to 0,50 11.), Mexican: ‘Fhie genus Uchelocdon waa ** foundod * in 1874,— ot leust the first announcement of it was mede tnen. Me rejuets the occurrence of thy South Amerfean genus Kethrodon on this Continent, und places the specles uctorded to that gonus 1n the une founded by Mmself, + Bub-Famlly Arvicollne, (ionus Enotomys E. Rutiua, Habitat, Cireumpolar rexfon of both tiemispherea?” This mouse for Just acentury has horne tha burder of u sclentific name, snd, ns far as Luglish {8 concerned, lns contented itsolf by belog ealied siinply o suouse, with no distine- tion ns to a pronomci. v, Rutbns -Gapperl, Red-backed Mouse. Tlabitat, Nortuern fronticr of the Untied Statos, from Atlaugfe to Pacifle, and an adjoininge belt of Britlsh America; Turther north repluced by Weliave rocelved several coplesof the Scholastic nV(;I.UTION. Annual und Almauae for 1570, compled for the At the last meeting of the Royal Saclety Prof, Univeraity of Notro Dame by J. A, Lyons | Parker made ncommunication emboiying purt (price, 25 cents)s the Alta-California “ Almatas | of hiswork on the structure and development and Ih;uk olem- "“(nrlcfiy;wm::-m:h!heflim')l- of the skulls ip the lizard group, which ia of more Sun Almanae (isstied free to subscribers)y & and the Alhany drgus Mmoo for all of Bleh utercat, His rescarches on the ¢embryos e e Tetarn (haniss, Nir od aimanne— | of the common Hritish lizards have Ted himi to il the ubove are sueh—ever ccmes umiss in o | very unexpected resuits, flitherto wo have uewapaper oftlce, been accustomed to regard the crocodiles and The Nationa® Quarterly Reving (New York: D, | turtles ns the highest groups of the reptily 4 . Gortun & Cos 51 and 53 Malden fane) for | family, chictly on the evidence of the structury f Jdanuary has the tollowing contents: "lenl of the soft and more jmportant vital organs. Couttnouwealths ¥+ The: Buttleflold of En- | Dut the evidence from the skull feads Prof. gland ol Ruasda™; © Matter, Life, ana Mind ' | Parker to rezard thelizarda nol ouly as the moit %Var Indehtment Its Limitations and Dane | bichly specialized of reptiles, bui the group K gers ™3 “Voltaire anid the French Kevolution s | Which approaches most closcly towards birds. wThe Beclegtostteal Question fn Italv "3 % Con- | The termt {1 furil 1* Is, howeyer, a4 present, uscd tton k- Bropects of the Sonthery States | 50 vauely aa th lucudo the batreria of Now (1)" *Tha Development ol Art (1) * Al- | Zealsnd and ehameleon, both of which are often zues Church History 75 Bibllogeaphy: Ho- reiardedd s types of distluct orders of reptiles. views and Criticlains.” The crmme:eun. nuwnlvar.whllc:nln ll'nully ruulmicu % " " approximates towaunls crocodiles, Is vegrded ns The dmerican Jnurna! of the Med eal Seienca the Toweac OF tho lizurds, nd even mors distant (Uhiladelphla, Ulenry C. Leay for January st | ey the hicher types than tortolses and turtles. 233 paites of Memairs and Cuscs, Reviews, und | yup tho jlzard skalt is found to bo_but slightly Analytical and Bibllogragtileal Notiees, Amoi | yiodited from that of the xnake, On the whold, the contributors are T, Gallard Thowas, &, F. the eharacter of thelr skults lenzll tothe mm-lu'- Welr, doseph C. llitehlson, John A, Lidetls | gun that birds differ less from lzanda fo } and Georze W, Rachiel, of New Yorks Robert . | i ricrure than does the ordinary perfect Insect Tarels, doseph Lelds, Witllam Hunt, Join 1 4 R - Tisanianl, M dsdec o Contey, | i ta pupa. O old thia strung pesemblinco thg miocene deposits of Dakota and Colorudd. | ua s, thi o vaments telue blerbded Tu ). ¢l o Vi . o Erelhizon dorsatus, with two varlelles: :;ttltlcl:’\‘l;llt;u n: el .m] lg;n : :&l:‘z hay f( i .lxm lr.-l :::1 LDorsatus, Canada porcupine. certaln ~ & German who ~ in earncst Zpizanthus, Weatern poreuplne., . | Wwould' pronounce Cicera Atkero fs not burn ":.‘;"‘?:fi!:‘:,‘l;z‘;c":m"m‘u' by Trol, '{th:’).“l,f“!‘ vet up to this timo that Germ u exlsts unl:din Erethizon e.oaclnis, by Prof, Jupe. T remuina | Lhe maination of Uxfordian Tlsssory ang-= Mr, Story. of the former were found fu the pliocens de- 4 4. Inspedking of the pronunciation of the it of Dakots, and thoso of the latter in tho | yoiter's Hir. Story makes thiaTudicrous blunder: ort Kenuudy Lubo-tave. Wilhe Germang pronounce {£ as if 1t were sinply ‘amlly L. agomyldee. (By Allen.) Jagomys | y op ., Tiins thioy say (Lo exnress the eound Princeps. Nortly Ameriean Pike, ‘This species 18 Enelish) waynee, weedee, weekee lor vend, widiy v'ei. the sulltary representatsve of tha family in North Aguftmt this pronuneiation we wnust enter the Amerlea, "il group 18 more numcrously | ot positive aud absolute protest.” represented n Northern Asia, aud is ot naw | Tpore Gepmun will gladly sian this protest, fonnd claewhere, Ehroe spuciee lubabit, e | hag ut tho same tiate will most emplutically others veeur turther uorthward. .I\m:", habitnt protest agatust the imputatioiol Mr, Story it U Gertmaus are guilty of tuls burbarous pro- Jienes embraces only Western Norih Amerlca LIttt ot Laitu 1 they were acenstomed oy A"‘zli'a (s fn echioul to prunouticlng Lath v as Euglish w, Fumily Castorodee. (By Allen.) This family {101 dous Mr. Story secount for the welknown ‘ff,::;,l"hfms.fi,?;v;.; “"E'viz,,‘:,""fflmm“j‘"“. ,‘z‘.“'fi fact that every Uerutn who beglne speaking beaver' of North Ameriva was about the size of ihish has so much aifiiculty tn getting the cturo recently delivered'in London, Mr. Harpsun estinated that In the ¢l pented need nol number more than 160 or ) in the four departments of ctry, history, sclence, and reliion. Tro umstiould be 1o gathier nto one collectlon e greatest and Dbest hooks 10 ench depurtiment, and such only.'? e further sald that us to which the hest 103 or 80 bouks were the world bad lung been pretty well aure years ago, Prof. Bpencer F. Baird treated the | yyo'trye /intitus. Nova Scotla, Suuth to Massa- | a full-zrown common black bear,” correct pronunciation of wi Mr.Btory’s blunder n important schemo for a new Dictlopary of | of Phtladeiphins T, Edmonson Atkingon, of | Gng 1o sorponts lod to the conclusion that we o “ . 3 * L » ekt ” {s toat ho considers Englist and German w § Buetish Dramatie Literature, exhaustive us | Baltbnores '8, C. Busey, Washington; 11, Gro- i 2 Tudents I his admlrable work on the *Mam- | chusetts,!? Family Castorvidie, (By Allen). Castor Fider, | gg oqual in sound, and tten vetiemently arcuea B i tioal. et £ b | ity Chitagos 1. B, Simuons, Javons Miadie | £1c0"} thewn, the limos first comiog into exist mals of North America.’ Previous to the present volume, howover, no author has treated ctus Arvico'a. Sub-gentts Myonomnes, This sub-genus s cspecivlly characteristic of North America, not being, perhaps, exactly ence, but Prof, Parker nou only regards the ser- § pent a8 the more anclent and ‘more generalized ' w sweekly | anjmal, but also %e ona which shows evidenco of Heaver. Threo fosstl species are also noted In | 5 SO TBEE0 Pl tiigtainly donsitiud (ogu)hn Laidy sed” Gore. e Dronet of hts perverted im ton ) The secom] number of the dgs o " ehiely Charleston nad many others, Intlon which 13 slmply coming to maturity, It Is to be edited by Mr. whily Tucodore Watts, “Ihe great names dare to he thew with reard to the *iatemt sciontific views x s ) fu reulity the Latin v 18 pronon tade the subjects of loniz nnd elaboraty noti oe thie Nation, Tits come ) e y el ! 2 e, dovelapmEAL, G ‘apecin, anid thel. | Mathoddn Lurons o hsing It emieacesthn | | fapen Mot ,.,x.mniu,u.q.\,.,.ls.xur, wishes It ool e (b anbleets of love it chivoraty natices | aitar ths atyle uf s Nation hae coviefo haud | W toracation by S Jows oF Ut KESLES ! varlubility under climatic and other‘conditions | yeenus, amonig them the most \rmu[r distributed Perogiathua Fitsc atus. Ils |:.“(::;|‘n:x::. l‘l‘x :;m:,x: (Ifi I:S‘E:n ';m”n’- L :'\’Aldll;uhr: ..‘m "m:‘ auu :;‘o:gc 1‘;{: ':"c"(‘L‘:‘e‘!: '.ms«;:;;ull[ ,\'v;rllll-:‘rlt \\'mu{'m. and hlll<w1:ul|c opinton, us the Nation | types possessed, - o i e tme'oc al, Nniushiden, Lisowiliny ouargoevar | Joreynatius. Fedichatye, falt-talied. wackob'| vory litlo meontic sul of E‘,'u;;llluf: T, whilo Inatie Hteratur Bt are, N | e eeaat 1ot i o A DURIED FOREST. h raphical dial lon, climate, + 9 . 7 atly from English w tha i Cnlght, Prof. J, Nie Gt Thesknmy % Al A » g g 3 o [l mvoriant part of the maturat istory of avccics. | 3'aris wurber of naviss and BTwerso submons | - & prognathus Miepidus, Misold vocket wouns, | STt [0 L1 Cerruat (U S | lomey Mole g Co. it ubdtahdurinzshieprescat | (et .G, C o B My o R e Sl e bl B ¢ Bere Sescrimtion of fortn made of 1, and | Sstics sl Virloent b raioots Damivanican | Terspmatiue Jicolor, Homturas nocket touse. | %, rehruscnte the vout b e alieky proounc, | montis M. Eragces Ao Kemblon = lecunds | F e, The nublication otlice o th Ayo W g i at the corner of Fourth and deiferson streety, | 31 tourss of sume extensivo explorations in the i Louisville, nolghborhowd of Rotenburg on the Fulda, in i Tha uternational Tewew for 1670 will he pub- | Hesse Cassch. From bls investigations, Dir. . Tished monthly, with u very stmall reduction in | Moesta has come to the concluslou that an oals the putber of its paces, i3 editors uercafter | yrood 1ies burled fu that portion of the valley of will be Mr, Joun T, Mugse,dr., Me.Heory Cabot [ tho Fulda, ut about s depth of from aix to ning Daodge, and Mr, Henry B, Barn Llie nu fect betow the surface, Thils wood Hourishied at H for Juntiary bus the followlne contents 1 very remote pertod of the earth's existence. i tratiom," u poem, by Edear Fawe e Suflro; Explorations curried on fn the bed of the Fuide u Birthright," by theHon, ticorzy D, Jusiang | hus brought to Heht several of the trees, 1t Is *‘Fue Palitieal Future ol France,” by A.\uml entlmated tiat berween 200 and 500 trees are Tatundier, Depd T Ameriean Export | jmbedded in the river-bod between Hersfeld and ¥ Trade)? by F.'1l. Morse, Jate United “Stites | Stelsungen (about chirty miles), which wanid comlitlon of nbode, such as characterized tho earlier works ou zoologleal toples, no longer af- ford satisfaction to tho ecientitic mind, The how, wherofure, and why aro pre-eminently of tho greater juportance. One of the authors, Mr. 3. A Allen, ts widely known for his mvesti- vatlons on theye polnts. The resuits of s - vestigation regarding rodente will appear fur- Wier on. Bluca Prof, Bainit’s wurk, the discov- ery of new species, the progress of scion- tifle thought, and the vast accumulation of a Girthood ™ {n a hundsomu yotume prefuced by n veey beantiful portralt of Mrs. Kemble at tiin perivd treated of, vuzrayed hiero for this cditfon, Mrs, [Kemble's reminisconc fumous days of the English stage oud soc when ahe was yet o grirl, huve aiready del readers of the” Atlantie Monthiy, but” those urtl- cles form only o portion of this book. The Messts, Holt ‘also have nearly ready s hook 4 Demonoloxy and Devll Lore,' by Moncure +‘The work will bo oup Lo ke rank s fmportant work on Primitive Cul- tk-Lore, aud Wil muke two lares & Paulele)! t Lowyipitte? Xenthojrathia, Borufesens,” Hirautus)? Nsuta,"! % Ousida,? o Jrugescena, “Occideatals,’ v Calljora’ea," “Xuntana,) * Edax,"" Jorea 8" ¢ Trobridye ! Wlowg.routrls,t WModestay” | ¥ Sufldoranin™ w Tireicert, " ato % Mynomes Dratensis and » Hy- {’mlmu Jeiparine? “Tlis species has & general nited States Ghiribution, . () Towasendl. Townsend’s Meadow Mull? e, Ilabltat—Orezon aud Washington Ter- ritories, 1A, Ripariuavar, Borea'ls, Little Northern Meadow Mouse. Habitat—Northwests Griceiwlypua & avus, yellow poket mousa. B "Tho v waa originally unkiown {n the Cricetoding Larvus, least pockot niouse, German lupguace; all e writton Dipodruys Zhlkpal, Sblfigat poclios st with v wers oristnslly speled with £ for tng Faniy, Haptoontde (ov Coues). Ihavodon | Smces vater il wak arero wrlitch Juiar an Tingas, “Tho Bewellel, "Tils alngle member of | *fe) ihorefore, the Germans ubstituto thelr w the group s found fy extremo, Nortbwestemt | gor fho v in foreign lauguages, thiey do so on United Blates, ondis about us lorzons & musk- | b eefectly sound principies, snd ot beeauso they et .f‘ "3-“,_"'““ and thireo lustrations uro | Liconsclouely "l:ull:llllfl' confound, uml'guial:\?»- felath . nonfice moro thsn lialt the consousnts,” as Mr, Yamlly Gomyide, (Br Coues.) 5‘11::‘-35:3%10 Kindness to tell us, 3 Uennpatuza, Florida pocket-govher, ! 1sre: Geornyja Cast Theso ure 8 few of his inlsreoreacntations ot pe, chicattut pucket-gophers unche L worils. 5 Ul pecimern fave enabled the autbors to talko | 163" OF thi specics Dr. Couca suy ot | Geomis Mezicantis, Moxieat pockel-gopher. %}‘c;’fi';{,":fl e v L worder with u uwinber of llustrations. Comeul-General, London: 1 Murality 11 France)? | warratthe expectation Gt ut. 1648t ten tnes ! 6" BE TaFgir: MAGWAT: oF maeHa th an many of thess litde creatutes look from | Geomys Hispidus,’ Central. American pocket~ | nicl s blunders on the part of the author; | Macmillan & Co. aro just sending outto the | by E. Do Prestonune, D tecullectlons of | ghut number ure to be found ja the soil of the 1 ker awounk el than uy | ypleal Stiparius, or trom the Likc oncs with | gaphore + - and they would peed wo refutation had thoy | tradu two linportant buoks received too lute fur Muzzin? (L), by Kurl Blinds ¢ In Contliet with | wdjoluie valloy, ‘The greater number of the =z otlier writer, and to “studlously” apply * the | which thy uro ussoclated, It is furposslulo for | *Fhumemsys Tapoides, Northern pockot-zophier. |yt com frum n scholar whow everybody supe | the winter season—the comprelionsive wnd | Buletiee "\ review of M yndall, by o Me- | trecadiscovered were fn good prescrvation; but, founder princtples of modern selence to the | us to Fegurd thei as spceliicatly distict, 1 Thumomys Talpoles Bulbivorus, Puctile pocket~ | Rosia to by thorooghly and correbtly intormed [ yuluable bool on *Coal, 1ts Ilistory and Uses,' | b e Literary Movenient w' Aawerens | gwing 1ot setion 0f tho water througld L (M) Xanthognatlas, Chestut-checked Mcadow Mouse, Habitst—North Americs, norsh of the United States. W1 A, Jechardsonl, of Audubonand Bachman, Large Northern Meadow Mouse, Dr, Coues seems Juchined to sefer thls specics to tho last wamed. In bl remarks on /¢ chamdsont he pays the following tribiiie to Hobert Kennleott, one of tho princlont founders of the Northe western Univeraity Muscum of Bvaunston, IN., and the Cnfengo’Academy of Beicnces: Wa buve noted with rlcuauru that, of the wmany lundred mico of ull sorta contribated to the col- fection by this cmlnent naturalist, not one had lubeled by him of whbich there was the . his labeling bas proved fn every case correct, # Bup-genus Chilotus, 4, (U.) Uregunue, Oregon Mcadow Mouso, Known havftat—Fucific const of United States. Babrgeuus, 2'edomys. A, (1) Auaterus, Praric Moadow-Mouso. Habitat—Wostern States and adjolulng ‘Terri- elucidation of the subject.” The two suthors, {ustend of treating the work in joint authoralup, totind it necessary to divide 1t each writing on eeparate families, To Dr. Coues devolved bondiug of the Muride (Mico), ddape Indontids (Sowellel), Zapodide (Jumpiug Mouse), Saccomydam (Pouched Mice), and Geomydee (Gophers), To Mr. Alien the Scividee (Squlrrets), Castorida (Beaver), Cas- wrowdidie (Possil), Hyatricidw (Porcupines), Lep- oridie {ilares), and Lagompds (Pkas), ‘The sequence af these memolrs, unfortuoately, 1s not 1 uecordance 10 ther naturai classifications, ‘but were publistied in the order of their truns- mlssfon tu the oflles of the Geological Burvey. Thuy aro bound tozether in quarto form, being he eleventh volume of the querto reports of tho Huyden Burvey. As thess works uro inac- ceasible to niany seicntists and to that cinss of people—the agrleulturists—whosy Intcrests Roplicr. Be'tho subjoct he ls writing about, Most re- Thomomys Talpoldes Umbrinus, Bouthern | spectfully yours, N pocket-zopher, It whould bo understeod that Mr. Btory was Thomomys Clusius, Rocky Mountain pocket- | relerring rather to the syllabus of the Caw- opher, “atallest kniown spectés Of the genus,” | bridige wnd Oxlord Professurs than to the actual and is ustrated by s Hlc-size plate, prounciation of Lutin In Germany. 111t shuutd Fumlly seuride. (By Allen.) appesr that the Cambridgze sod "Oxford Profes- Seluropterus Vouuesld, Atierfcan flying sautre | sors, whils endeavorlne to found their methol sohe with two varicties: Vo'ucela, Bautharn | ou the Gernan mettod, bave not dota so, the liying '\m"ul' and Hudeonius, Northern flymng | case ugalust them will bo ull the stronwer, AU syuirre . the same thne, it inust bo ndmitted that * F, C. Sciurus Hudsonlus, rod squirrel, ‘with four | X" bus discovered some Juinis fu Alr, muril-u varleties: Hudsoning, Eastern red squirroly | annor. We slivuld Mlke (o hear more on this Itichardsoal, Richurdson’s red squirrel; Dung- | subject—En, THIBUNL, lani, Western red squirrel; Franonti, und Fre- ‘m.,’m“‘.r:‘:ll,"::‘r:!fi::l&u aray squirrel, with threo A TALLAD OFBRIC-ASIRAGE ciu ) ; g ¥ . % . varietiont Coueotiy Northern weay squiprels | o, M Houry Baldwiu's sl Hilo st B Uarolnads, Bouthern gray squirrel; and Yucys the Brica-Brae manla, prin n the Atlantic fauensls, Yucata gray squlrrel, Monthly, hws been relssued fn pumphlet foru, Selurue Niger, (X bquirrel, wltt threa varle- | with illustrations by thoauthor, Mr, Buldwinis tes: Viger, Bouthern fox quirrels Cinercus, | almost as apt with the poucil us with the pen By Vrok Thorpe amd others, fully fllustrated, and un foteresting volumne of travel and ndven- suro tn Sonthers Indf, ‘*Sport and Work on thu Nepaul Frontier,' also fully itustrated, by #* Maorl ™ Svlnmen Tuglls), ‘They expect at once two beauthinl books which should have teen Bere for the holkduy trade—the [lustrated editfon of Waterton's * Wunderings in South Aaerlen,” and the “Journal of a Tour m Moroceo,™ by Sir doreph Hooker and Jon Ball; also, the esiay on Dante by the Very Rev. it V. Church, including u transiation of 'nis Ds Mongrehila.” Penny-Journalism cestainly pays. ‘The will of the late Mr. dobustone, the proprietor of the Standard, distributes personalty xwol T 500,000, bestdes, 1t may be presunied, somg real property, Jolmstonie hud other soutces of fucome, but mch of this treasire nust bave been acquired trons the sala of the Standurd, o curlous proot ot the extent of 1ts circulition. Liberals need not rewret i auccess, LU is ese t Fugish Books," by George Barne unnimberel aged, they huve bycome thoroughly The publihers (Meswrs, A. S, Barnes & | black in color,” They” have also becoute very , Chileago and New Yori) send us the bound | hard and close, so that they would be exeellont [} volume of ths magszine for 187 It contaws | guuterla) for carvivg und oroamentsl eabinet- much valuable tatier that deserves to be pro- | work,® Bome of cho trevs ave of great slze; one served fn some pertmatent shape ko this, taken out of u gravelly portlon of the bed op- i Edmund C. Stedinan will have inthe pusite the Villwee of Baumbacy, and shice seut Scribuer n paper on ** Aeral Naviz o u(-(h-;»!wl cal Musenns ag lic wiileh o confesses that subject to be his hobby, | Biue feat loi f and does not hesitata to print hs sunguine eon? | the oot and ubout. thlrsy-clghe fuet b FletTou that & solution of the air-travel problem | t0D 80 thut its aulid contcnts ars wbaut 620 14 our at bande Tl paper |s Ulustrated from [ cuble fect, Kven lurger succimens havo beey desnens made by Mr, Stedman foug sizo {n con- | foand, it Ia that tho furniture und eetion With theorics of his owh, wu containg | Gitines uf the Geological Museu ab Marburg 1 vaieible information about what has | wrete be mude brou this loug-bured tmber, thus far been accomplished from ex- | D mteresting question remniug to Lo, Derlments that bave beew made, oA | Do those buried orlia belong Lo & species - still f Lnposim o1 the Cuinese Questton” | exioting or 10 un extinet onet . wiil be u novel featurn of the same nitler of I Ca=mne Serbner's, It i unnounced to dnelude i | BLECPRICILY ASA MOTIVEPOWER, leet reporta of Intervivws with etch distine [ 1n the course of o Jecture on electricity de- ' ruistid and men as Ab Leey of | jivered by Mr. Qerard Fineh, M. A, In connees matniy aifected by the publication of facts (8- clally eri- | Northeen fox squlreel; sud Ludovicanus, Wosle | 1o aaslated o muking the flustrations. | sential tothe good government of the countey | Cherry wtzeets Mlons. Alptwmsg de T Fontainn, | ot \vigan Mivtog snd Mechanteat ceralug tho nu:m’;nnlfii Pa:mu quotations fram ';;‘;!f'k:;:’-’:;.mll.::dll:{:x‘:i"'ni‘xill::rminuuuld"‘:"l'mxl “‘A!fi.‘ni.“}!.ii:'r California gray squirrel fue 4 T (lded A““‘;{.‘”"“i‘,‘ wore hntred by 14 iethe “““":l ] i, 9L A0ath VL o \mf-i,.l.,.,;';,,l""“ Hoasial, gl.‘h:ml‘ul: ml:v:l |‘|h|::m|3mn s glvc:x‘u! el notes on speeics Wi ceullarly val - o i ¥ 3 somo persons mors than the textof that 4l | English people shuuld b represeuted in the | th 3 3 pan S i t ¥ - bere P o e }t.‘::.:.':&‘x“%.’.‘"f.‘.‘u"“..ki:‘fc??"\:-e",’u'&“te‘:.'::?‘\‘»flfil Beiurua 4’#‘""- Albert's gray squirrcl, .mmfi publication, Bfr, Baldwin's *ballad * *N.f,...,.l'f. Partiaments and the Standerd, wiier | Cleaning fureat, and Judgze Eln tsbury, | teelty performing mechuical work, A sawe & “ Famlly Muridee, Bub-family Murina, Tribe | Nortufleld, 11k, by Robert Kennteou. Sciurus Colital, Collle's gray wquirrel, {4 dulntily printed {n sheets and bound, sccord- Rir " Mudford's maneement, has terformed s | 0f Whisky Guteh, Montuna Teriitory, Thts | beneh was pliced ou o platform contiocted with Slgnudontes, LY iaterus Curtatue, Wostern Prairio | - Scturus buothia, varled sulfrcl, et e canna. ot Decomtive Art, with u | e o diicalt by tho inherent Liberalium | Wuraner wall Lo ont ubout the Litth and it w | o Siemens slynaiio-electrlc machine, whieh ey Wovidana, Wood Rat, Tabltate | Morise. S TiabitarOnited. States west of the | Seiurut hupoyyrrhua, tire-bellled squirrel, Diae ritbon. Tt wuold by the Decorutlve At | of pint Journaiints, exceedhiely well, and wign | dud thiat 0056 coplis will be priied. With | 11s turn was conpected by wires with the 1oue o 3 Bouletles of New York undd Chicago for 25 cents, 1 Bouthern United Stat Seiurus aurigaster, red-bellied siuirrel, the begtunlng of o uew vear a gali In cireulutlon | catne ontaide the b d lor producing the od Northern Mexico. nutable indevendence of Minfsteriul pressure.— Misslasippt, us Neiurus lecucopa, gohle: the lecture, On the el bellled squirrel. waeported of from t5 to) per tent, OF the | electrle lipght durh North sometimua to New Yorlk, Dukota, [llinols, “ Bub-genus, itymys, . The rooms of th clatter Boclety are In the Dore | speetator. e o /y e HSelurua astuans, Braxiillan squirrel, with vari- s, M e c! , y 3 Juntary ninnber 85,00 coples have been gold, | tricity being communieated the saw wus set T, Akanints oo Woad Bat, | Uil s e e e, bl | eyt g, Db BT R Sevatny " | | Tinkorss oparked apecplan s Ik | 't st sl ini " | i o Wb v i e Hubitat~California. A~ remarkablo rat and { and rathorsoutherly; north to Massachusoits urua Uphronesar, G sain i — e BHAL L) e e ta i i liacit 2 ues wus cut bnto Catrlps, | Lord Linl \ Bich apitko auy other gheclcs i the pen, At Miveorls Tho far of this upecios bo. T urus Uerrard GQerrad's squirrel, ART NOTES, e ok bual ey Wro SEVAr Made BEARKS sz, M. 1y B 1L 8, and Presbdent of the Hoyal Seciurna variabills, Peruvial Tumlaa striatus, cobinon ¢ Tamias aslaticud, with tve varictiu Cinerca, Busliy-talled Woud Rut. 1abf- tat—From tho Pacitie to Hudsun’s Buy, south through Colorado to New Moxico. In elze th Astronomleal ‘flmely. wn:l in the w‘nnlr,tmlnl Y = ¢ 'PIHE among the audlence wers u largo number of thio CROSCOPE AND PITE MU= | oy colbery propristors of the district, Thy markablo for ita shortuess, cluscness, and lus tre, upproaching thut of the mole, sodin fact betraying tho specivs ut tirve glance.™ Madrazo s cucaged on su lmoortant work for thelr buyere, Persons perbiaps exist, such borealis, | With muny figures—a fancy dress ball. 1t 4 - is thu inarveious varicty of humanty, who p _ " s it . ¥ V. i fave purchused a Ciclstinas book for them- MAN BODY, Totterara incimed (o test the practicability of aunal ia rather L tho gunus. Its “ A, (1) . % 5 Northern chipmunk; quadrivittatus, Rocky | tended for W I Veuderblit's gullery. i hh “ 5 Hb R ulier are ned to test the p 3 m e nl| el ers, | BRURL=loLite Motintsin ehipainks pol i x:;;;»mlry:‘;lll';nggmp:l"\';"‘,z'_:;'l‘;;:; Dl sie Lowtun Times. working coal-cutting niachinos and etner wider- ],eunllumlnu are long whiskers, vary! 1 iddua, Dl cUlpmunks | (erome, egratified with tho success of his uur to cight fuches, w densely-hairy tal ls ; g 0 foanaewdy Nowuseud's ipuuuk; dorsalisy GU3 {4 qradiators,” for which ho rocelyed a o, ’Fumial Ilarrisl, Rarrs’ chipmunk, modelng & group of Anacreou, with the iufants, Lainiaslateralls, Lay’s clipmunk. Loy und Bacchus, This witl Lo cut in maruse, Spermwphilua grammurus, lined-tatled ground ¢! dlug Iu by “G - e by | ovont SE Lo (s by kst Ulsdss The componnd which oxygen mates with the | groand” machinery by electricity. At present colorling mutter of hlood—viz, oxyhivmuoglobin | compressed sir o the only powoer st can Lo —pgives a well-morked spectrum having 1wo wsed for driving thess machines without interfer- al tlon bands, Merr Vierordt, & Geran | 18 with tho ventilutlon of the workings. Eloc- St R J tricity b waid v piroduce cqual oftect at conshi- phvafologist, hus poluted onv that this muy be | gty less cost. 1t can ulso be conducted chieaps unlque | 8. Coogers. ubitat—Tndiana, Tiuols, Kane sas, Minucdots, Oreizon, aud Alusku."” T b o 3 Wia, abitat—~Arc ¢ Ak Ueiia Ml rctic Amcrica, Asta. Jite furplies it sl Khids of tonstroslttes bave thelr masket in this world, So there may poss sibly be collectors of Christius buoks ut thew Dwhcost, But they wuat b few und far ba- twevl ublishers” will be wise 10 they puy o o the genus, with bolr uften threo fuchies 10 Jengih, The hulrs focrease {n lengzth, usually, o1 buse $o tip, and Nikewlst are @ore or leas Uhtichous 1n_wrrangewent, so that the tail fs fattened, The ears and, to somo estent, the e, Turquatus,” *“Iludson’s Rat,” “Whit, tore.? i1l rd, tn areanging for thelr Christmas 5 1 ) y feet ehars tho tacrease of Nistrness that the tal | Dear’ Mousn,” ote, Habitat—Arctle Ame Ite | Rucky Mountain lined-tatied ground squirrel} i i :-n..a b A shiply observeid by putting tho fourth and i10eh | 1y a1l eastly to any vart o the wines by means showy, T iland. 854 Corrospondion v e o Mh%ac‘"‘"{"““' lined-tailed ground squirs | '1ho following advertisement appeara (n tha ( subidy. o e feiblers ol ERRIET QUL Rpenl | tingers one over tho other, wod bilghig their of wircs, rel; I, Douglass’ lned-taited ground | Loudon Atheneum: * Mr, Whlstler on the Late .'l;!mko phiius Bspetra, Purey's ground-squir- Teiah—To be Ready Immediately, sanare Svo, 7 v o s Price One Bullling, Whistler vs. Ruskw. Byd. el with threo varictica: Ehujalrd, Kodceiait | 5 "jouxenl Whistier? The publisvers aro Var Kichardsont, Richardzon's ground-squir- | Messre, Cuatto & Windus, rel. Cabanel is at work on tho friezo to his decora- Var, Townsendi, Townsend's ground-squirrel, 2 0 sou. . Vo Slottise snortnth rdxnmsl q\lln‘gl- tive palutings for the Puntheon. Mo bhas re . Mugister (Fossl Neotomna). Locality of Temalng: Cuves of Peunsylvania, near Horris- burw wid Carllsle,” i In ¢loslug is remarks ou the goous Neotomna, Ur. Coucs sayss 80 far from velloving thst 8uy of our Neotomns gepresent diferent h:wulu.’ we hold that they are sll une, tarlug the gluiple relation “to cach other ol purcot to offapriug. Dut we write” Old World, “Gienus Hiber Zibethicus, Muskrat, Habjtat— North Amerien. ‘The histury of the family Is ctosed by & bibll- ography uf works sud pamphlets concerning it, extendingg from 1530 to 1877, und comprisiug 1 tlttea. There aro uisoseventy-seven tigures, rep- resentiug o correspoudiug nitmber of akull. pome ides of the labor fnvolved tu the produce Hne of unton befory th slit of A wpeclroncope, the Hheot used belng sunbizht travamitied, If now o caoutchoue ring be passed round the - fingers 80 m6 to stop the wceess of arperinl | fond & Jusult "“I‘;:“;“ I the Valley or U Dlaod, th twa absorpilun Latds 1n the apoc. | Zatibest bas lofe for At % trum giving phaew to ot of reduced [ A8 might bave boen expected, the Pekin hamoglobln, Take the ming off any | Official twstte publishics 2 communticution from ture,~—Loudon Tline, It {s curious to learn thot thy **ziass slioper ** n Cluderelin, of which trom our youth tn- wards wo nover questioucd the autheuticlty, ot well awors that 1o one who s Hot & e of tairics would tnuk of danving fn un article, was uot part of the erkcinal SCIENCE NOTES. The misslonary expetition which fs about to au story, but hua been dug 10 G inisinderstunding X oo X carned Ui ¢y tut tho * far-apeak- —1ev § . » Teri contly finuhed portralta of Mr, and Mra. | oy word used i the Freachversion of thetale, | the former spestrum recurs. Thess a learned Chiniese, sbowlug that tha e e | s sl wiiee Surda e st Sl Bort Y groid iy Shnbay: st bonausa. willfonaires ot Cullforuis, | i sipuer, s bave bcet Loud by & wriier 10 | plouomenn evidently @ive information | e taue ¥ was kipnri e tho Cobenay Empire » ulte, tauglte, ‘und . (comparatively speaking) | Coues, ti tbis tumiiyy found it nocessury to con- | Afestcansis, Mextean ground-squirret, S Jeptlia® {8 & canyos which he bas patuted tor i -“Iyrwfl,v’“ by fn':.“.'.“ ’ ‘{'I‘;" about tho rute at which uxygen Is botne used up | sbeut "‘";‘ “;’ n"udwx:::fi ’f, 'x:x“ a8 H Soustaut cuaracters wiih bave beso nipressed | sipuct ot gou, tho yubrgeucrs. and nluy Tvidscentinatiuh, srtied sronliulere); 8.1, Avery. Tho young girl w reh Eastern e P eaited hu Frencly | 1 the uman body, sud mizht (Herr Vicronde ventlon uf u inbabita ckin. viz, of ,““ml','u'l;“llflrl“ _b:‘l vh)"k'nl fuflucuces, | sped i s -qul‘;:h idecein s, Eustern striged ground- | casyurne, with ber iands sulsed to lamentaaon | b2 S0 00 GE & creature of the weanel kind, | thlnka) bo sivantsgeously utlized by the physi- | Tho Madrus Jad statea Lhat great prouress fa. Yoyl eocrapuical variation. Iio refcets thrad | inthoremainlog monograohby br. Couselltle | SRR, )y, syptern atriped grouud-squie- | SAPTAST IS B UL WALA LOAEKh | Hut thds var woubatric it o bbb PR | cemesadt end, o goes ‘an Lo show, cven | belu wade I the cultivation of ehineuous In Mndetinite, tmore or deas Ibtahgibie, and pp e !".‘;gy O A Ebilit $his suie earcrul invest) haitoe: | e, h spectator, whilo w group of young woien b [ Jorytotiers, Lhey upoke of u putotgle de v, | pedevted hght will ive the mdications, and they | the Wynuad, and that uearly o willion plauts sten in th dlstance, Mo hus”Just inlaed tor #yank'in, Preokliu's ground-equirrel, Kooudter & Co, n * Satuson and Delilah,"” Cymous Ludovie anus, Mistudrl pralelesdo, | ipyy winter extibltion of the Royal Academy e o e Profriedoge | gpeued to tle publie ou Mouduyy thu ith tnst. Arctomys iy enter, Rocky Mountal 1. | T I At havo to thauk the Duke ot Deyon Arctomys Llayienter, Kocky Mountalu marmots | yuiro for tho luan of u conshderablo num erof T e s uiad Urawings lrom Chatsworth, fucludiug uany L aanch pevocius aro juctuded 8 | wicn wers duwscribed ln the |rivats collecs SOy of Aty Cope, gt Letdy. au bl | tlous of Eugland. Tie Queen has leut wny By hien giuade, s cuupluty tewolr 0f | flug exumples of th sso Kiud from Windsor, LTIy b guarity ucudlug tho WWo | {ucludiug works ot Du Viocl, which were uot in onera reprosented fouths it the United States | B Wrce e wiutor: “From ‘e saio s an appendix i ! ¢l Lo coliectivn the R A4 buve ubtaived somw o the 2‘5‘:".'5.'?&:‘4‘ Al Exhucs sbovles decribed prev- tumous \uu‘ll Ifi:c [lllillglllunlllj,llnlulci }:.vmm uro The ‘work closes with & most valusble and | 3scrited to Hulbeln, Tus Duku of Nowcastic, comtnendable. Giography Of North Amerlcan | 1sUr s Jent solse ue victurus. mawwaly vrepared by ‘Theodore Gull and Elliott | e private view of the Grosvenor Gallery Coues. It compriscs ubout 550 titles, but 16 | Exhibliion wus appointed for Dec. 353 the coi- regarded as jucuwvlete. 1t b, however, the | Jectlon was upened tu thu pubhic Dee, H0. Moo largest bibllography o Awericau mamuals over | sides 830 English waterolur deawingy, produced publlshed. The Judetis in all 1s a maguiticent | to whitln lve years of the prescuc date, the guarto-work of 1,100 pages, printed on_ beavy | prescut agrregate jucdudes seveutywlx varicd tioted paper with broad wmarcins, sud fu beautl- | studics by Jucres, ucludiug bieces vrepared for ful type. It is without doubt th finest publica- | wore thal oue uf that wesler's fuwous pleturvs, bug plius =ty lung wHpper, DY W SOFE 0L uBtONsCIOUR Pl fuooriu o new readingr | fur moze cred Aty of Cinderella's godmnatlier, purveyur of vomfortably cluthess for wiatever ke power b 2iuss sllppers wIKUL have bad o vurviving a dance, it 8 ipoanblo that they coutd haye Deen camfortable to the feot, unil resulted 1 all protability in seriuus can b couveslontly observed from a Duger, the | bhave been taken thess this yeur frowm the Nedd(- red psrt of the Hpd, the tungue, Tod chiceks of | willtim estato, nond this 13 in addition to what 13 YOUBE persons, el Withu Browulug spectro- obtuined from e extentlve chinchona nurse- eope, Thie observer butes exactly the moment | ries onall the coffeu eatates, All the poorer at which, say, s cavutchioue ring 18 upglicd tothe | parts of thess are Delng plutted with chlm-nuu;l Hnger amd the woment of disappearauee of toe | winels s luund to thrive” woll where colfes Wil bands. (Fio Jatter oy scem vague, but with | not zrow, : : practive u sulllcieutly expert Judgtunt way b | pror, gosepl Tingley, of Indlaus Astury Unl- “"‘"“‘"‘} lers Vierords iives o deratlod we § yopivy, tinge o bombahe iito the sdeatiio of development, which ore of less L slace the Hoks that biud the forma e ctive branches of Nevlvina are per- .tlll)tav‘l‘n\n. Moreover, the specles ubove de- 8 Hliel il reat upou very broad—primary, so b heak—gographical, and therefors cliuatic, L sdltlons:y white the ast-nuwed ndicate only e oueeation of reatricted local influcnces,” Ra Genus Sgumodon, 8, Hipidus, +Cotton t, Habitat—Soutliern United Btates and L,ulw. cenectally coustwise, North to tue arolias, wouth to Vers Crux aud - Guat- ;Inulll.' Lhe geous Slrmodou bas cotu- bmul begn Fepresented a3 having throe species. ‘ut Dr. Coues observes: **If thess specunens dreatlol one specics (a8 we bold and ab 10 bruve), the limite of varlstion ure ast sobies :uul lurther apurt, as would be vxpected from e extent of the voun! r{ representing different tlimatle couditions. Ile luds it fupossible 10 Focog Ygukl. but for thuss al wnd ure substantinted by so many (acts that It would seem that the most skeptical of his ope vonents would by campelled o uccopt s con- clusions, It 13 olwove o serious bjection to chanize the uumenclature of fawlies, uud species, more especially in the wholes msnner iuwhich Dr. Coucs 1ddulged ; but au ex- amination uf Lhe ntiense urray of fucts 1 cou- vinelig proof of the necesaity of such change, . Prot, Allen's mouographs are of su entirely ifferent character. ‘Tu lustitute s cumparison betweun thess emment scientists would be of uo avail, Euch hus his pecullar mctiod of reaching tho sunie pulut, which are entirely com- pleto i thelr way, ‘Thers 18 8 marked ditfer- euce In touir methods, bowoyer, both of which, Delng desersing, moy by briely alluded to Prof. Allen bus a world-wide reputation lor hifs 1aws of geographical * varlatiou * ol coloras twn sud of *dutribution.” Iy bid movo- graphs may by fuuud feugiby expositions on tacse laws, which ure uniuown ju Dr. Coucs® mewoirs. Prof. Allew's mouogruphs 8o worded 1 the simplest lavzusge cqusl to the culibro of sby ordinary person, wile Dr. o5 count gt the changes thae occur. WIthout | gy 'y the stioos of @ deulul ot gravitation here fullowlog nin i thby - we note s uDiv 7 gt sud the i resultsof & large numberof experiments u‘;:;:’l'l“’llhf{;u'l;"_,‘f"g‘;'u-:“‘fl“fll::‘m R e G yien, then in Bormal, it it b found to [ Suens s IBEORER BT o ieted by 15, Vhiow consierablu varistiobs (as twuch ws nearly | UMV ER R BF e Vitation 18 o u thires tonts), - Timediately on nislug vut of bed, [ S4CGE 1SS SR B Ay tuatntalus thae steprictas lEMovess (abuut 4w wer. o ut | ygtir fo para-ruvitaut, soiie Lorlies utlmctuie averugol, Flic wveuar cXertion I Howlbs | aud otiicrs vevelliiz casdyvilicr, cien ua ilfers mlu.Lm\..)i‘m' "(“ o i o ux‘xu u‘utl‘ of i tmagnet, ad Vs mnf Jolut fu »‘l"*"“ c: v fust, the square ob tho lstanee. retty coustant L ailer the pudaay meat, - jo- 5 5 Hu;lafml) BiLer tuts it Fust (2 win, 10 see), wnd Mr. Lockyer wilbes lu tood Worda! A Masque of Pocts,” recently publisbed tn Poston by Messtu, Rulerta Broihers, sid no- ticed in these columns, s glyen rhsc to duy- erul curious crrors of judzment with regurd to the autuorstty of differcur poctas. Wolcarn frot unquestivuable autburity that tiy liuey cutitled * Question uud No Apswer, unl- versally gacribed to Dr O v, were f fack wrsten by Jonl Houguton: shat “Ope Huudn wug Ooe,” whichh log been wet duwo as the praduction of It W. Lmeraou, was whtten by Miss H. W, Pre i that E. C, Stedman s the suthor of * Pro- yeneal Luvers,” sud nut Mr. Btotidard or Mise Preston, as statod by o wapaperd, Ib oy also be tentioncd tuas Transiguration wus :lze wiore thun ous brrsuns who udinit all be clalws, yet think that tue ypecimens should be distivgulsicd as varie- bies, e liawmes the followiu diszuosis: JLapidus Hip dus, Reddish brown, lned “What twn of ts kind extaut ou Atderican luswmmals. straits, studles ol the uude, draperics, ox- b L spAS e AR mobnt ol the suu’s energy which tor leu Liuck, beveatt-whitust, ‘Toll nearty cquol- | Coucs’ sentences would oftén puzele she wajur- | LU s to be resretted thst o bistory of 8.; Imlu'u m::nm-'. uud uuuumllwn..( 'h‘:u watei- | written by Hla Alcott lx:’lr.uu.."’byklwlu(v ane buur 1 “":‘lmf'ui,b:?rfi.‘::l“fi:m‘:i hul::vul;;: B Yk . e sestat Ahues % ug budy aloue, Hind loot bot over 1.0 tu. nor | ity of sclentiats, We moy quois v senteuce | of the specls could vt Lave been fucluded. culor drawloge comuprise soms of the | M. D, Thoreau; - od T utd 8Ly dreart, | (Lmin2iece) T fomes R SIREThe | moldie the surtace of ot ciib, utd readerus Uider L4 fu, T Dr. Couve as dliusirsve of this poluty | - (Monourajbsuf the North Awerica Jodontie. | beat works —of - Mosara, Buyee, Burton, | £ Canuot bt It ¢ Ly Jaipes Tursclt Lowgt} | 1l betweeu and o otcluck, sorietigng ke e | i (0 Sl o anumal wid bt bio ” e Hixjud ter'and'er. Grasish brown, | found ou paxe Uz *Too intervarictsl bsuods | Guawiug Mawwials, By Dr. Etliott Coued, Cap- | tbe Brutbers Frivo, 5 Pwmer, und other { snd A Luver's Tests, Buvard Luylai, | value ¥ ml’“ u.;‘unly Lwo Cses vbservwd i | pusmblet mnd huw do we o det: . el with black, beneath whitiste Tull sonie- 1 avd b quadiate, witt u spurs the paroce | tuln wud Assistant Burgeon U, 8. A., Secretury | cbuleo paiuters. tbe staple of the cxbibjtion | Mr. G. li. Buker ds e sutbor of A | Suprerave i 3 e ¥ ravle ri e Varings vt | Lot d3 conader 3 Lollow syl Liwes cqualtiig Luds wud bead sioues Shind foot | cluital pruscaces wep strong; the tymovanie | avd Natu Sung Betore Suglue,” which coustlerable rise (L. i aec.). Varlous veen liat uf the Burvey, uid Prof. Joel | couslsts of wbout 89 uld tnssters’ drawiuzs i aloo b arked it ¢ pla o drameter of G0N il i ""_‘,‘;‘vzil;dhuunlnfimur 110 ‘.‘f'uu ” iRk buliue wedium m;; vterygolds large, bamulate, | Asuph Alt;u, Avsl zam ull ";LK' u\’f n u;c.m.- alver poiut, ‘lm“ Ulstr mwu.l_umli. charvway, | e (;\n:n-‘u mi-:: .L:l]"‘l.l:,;l\u\l::l 1. i bf“fi flx.',l.;?"x'ntm‘-:u':‘x:::;&':& .ufin‘:;u‘l(‘lml::;_“ "‘mu m}m of um‘“: &:x” m,'f ¢ o - Hlp dus 1dlicans, Redu! rowu, lue aud fencatrate. 'ug fuck miay be stated, bow- | parstive Zootogy, Cambridge, Ma: pectal | aud woiurd, - {taltan, natl, Fleweh, butes, | tae valisgd ot i3batnd s g y & e . Cotder | Let the butica bo placed 88 cluse as they can . With biack, beneath whitlah, Tml urcly'uuuu- ever, that,winle such seatences should be uyuide | Colluborator vl the suives, Lewg Vol X1 of ' aud Freuco artisis arg very Healy red) cacuted | Kumentl; sod * Borzon™ sad A Wowuu's | tue CuLsuIDLOD uF oXFReu; sudidsusdey vtaer e 12 16