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A LARGE portion of the American Naturalist, for October, is occupied by Prof. Asa Gray's address at the Dubuque meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to which we have already alluded. Mr. B. Pickman Mann then concludes his paper on the white coffee-leaf miner (Cemeostoma coffeelum), a subject of great importance to coffee-growers, treated in an exhaustive manner. Prof. C. F. Hartt, from whom articles on the same subject have already appeared in the Naturalist, contributes a further paper on the occurrence of Face-urns in Brazil; and Prof. N. S. Shaler concludes his article on the Geology of the Island of Aquidneck, illustrated by maps and sections; and Mr. C. V. Riley his important article on the cause of Deterioration of Grape-vines—The November number commences with an ardcle by Mr. J. G. Henderson on some aboriginal relics known as “plummets,” which are abundant in various parts of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with speculations as to their use. Prof. James Orton continues his contributions to the Natural History of the Valley of Quito, the present article being devoted to the Articulata and Plants; in the latter department the author notices the similarity of the features of the flora of the Andes to those recorded by Kerner in the Tyrolese Alps. Mr. R. Ridgway commences some Notes on the Vegetation of the Lower Wabash Valley, with, an account of the Forests of the Bottom-lands. Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, in an article on Fossil Insects from the Rocky Mountains, records nearly 40 species, belonging to nearly all the principal groups, found in Tertiary deposits. Prof. Cope, in a paper read at Dubuque, discusses the geological age of the Coal of Wyoming, which he refers without doubt to the Cretaceous period. Prof. Shaler has a short note on the effects of extraordinary seasons on the distribution of Animals and Plants.—In the number for December we find a short article by the Rev. Samuel Lockwood on the Baltimore Oriole and Carpenter-bee, followed by a continuation of Mr. Ridgways's notes on the Vegetation of the Lower Wabash Valley, treating of the Peculiar Features of the Bottom-lands. This is followed by an interesting account of the Alpine Flora of Colorado, by the Rev. E. L. Greene; and Dr. J. W. Foster then contributes an abstract of a paper read at Dubuque on certain peculiarities in the Crania of the Mound-builders, illustrated with drawings. Another Dubuque paper of a speculative character is by Dr. H. Harts-home, on the relation between organic vigour and sex; and Prof. Shaler then gives a further instalment of his paper on the Geology of Aquidneck. In all these three numbers is the usual amount of Reviews, and interesting short paragraphs and notes.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 7, 254 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007254a0
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