Branchiopod a

Cuvier’s first order of the sub-cla entomostraca. The genere included under it, such as cyclops, cypris, apus, limnadia, branch i pus, ete., are now generally ranked under several orders, Branco, Rio, a river of Northern Brazil, which rises in the Parima Mountains, on the very borders of Venezuela; and, after a S. course of about 400 miles, joins the Rio Negro, of which it is the principal tributary, on its way to the Amazon, Brand, Sir John Henry, 2 Boer statesman, born in Cape Town, Dec. 6, 1823. Queen Victoria knighted him in recognition of his aid.