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the income is expended in the cave of the valuable museum 

 belonging to the academy. The directors of the establish- 

 ment are Mr. F.W. Putnam and Dr. Packard, both eminent as 

 men of science, and occupying a prominent place before the 

 public, not only for their own special researches, but as being 

 the editors of that popular serial, the American Naturalist. 



The principal additions to the museum of the academy 

 during the year have consisted mainly of insects and archae- 

 ological specimens, and also a series of the animals inhabit- 

 ing the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. All of these, together 

 with the collections previously in the museum, have been 

 properly arranged and classified, and tend to render the mu- 

 seum very attractive. The report urges very strongly the 

 propriety of securing an additional endowment, to enable 

 the academy to publish in its memoirs certain valuable sci- 

 entific manuscripts now in hand, the alternative of being 

 obliged to send them to some other establishment having: 



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more means at its disposal being greatly deplored, as they 

 were based upon the collections of the academy, and should 

 legitimately appear under its auspices. 



BLOOMINGTON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION". 



An organization entitled the Bloomington Scientific Asso- 



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elation was instituted at Bloomington, Illinois, in 1871, having 

 for its object the diffusion and popularizing of science in that 

 state. The officers are Professor B. S. Perry, Mr. R. II. Holder, 

 Dr. Yasey, and Mr. J. A. Jackman. The society already has 

 a large number of members, meets frequently, and, we trust, 

 will be of greater permanence than several similar establish- 

 ments which have preceded it in the same region. 



MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FIIILOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



As previously announced, the annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Philological Society took place in Providence on the 23d 

 of July, and was attended by a very large number of mem- 

 bers, embracing some of the most eminent scholars of the 

 country. The papers read were by Messrs. Charles A. Bristed, 

 AV. W. Fowler, J. Hammond Trumbull, Professor Evans, and 

 others ; and with the discussions, when printed, as they will 

 be in due course of time, will doubtless form an important 

 contribution to philological science. 



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