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Dr. H. Gibbons spoke of the smoky state of the atmosphere, 

 which he had noticed for the last twenty-four hours, and referred it 

 to the annual fires in the forests of Oregon. This produced some 

 discussion, Dr. Cooper and others opposing it. 



Dr. Gibbons called the attention of the President to a paper read 

 by him some time since on the belts of temperature, and asked how 

 he would explain the present heated term at the East, and where 

 the counterbalancing cold zone was ? 



Prof. Poey said that undoubtedly such opposing zones did exist, 

 and that he had observed that, when all North America was in a 

 heated condition, South America was in an opposite state of cold. 



Regular Meeting, September 5th, 1870. 

 Prof. Whitney in the Chair. 



Twenty-five members j/resent. 



Prof. A. Poey was elected a corresponding member, and Dr. C. 

 M. Hitchcock and H. E. Highton resident members. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Rock crystal from Clear Lake, 

 pumice stone and galena from Battle Mountain, Nov., selenite from 

 San Joaquin county, by G. Yale. A piece of silicified tree from 

 Calistoga, by Mr. Badlam through Dr. Stout. 



Donations to the Library : 



The North American Lakes, Dr. E. Andrews, Chicago, 1870, pani. 4to.; 

 The Total Eclipse of July, 1860, Wash. Xat. Observ. pam. 4to. 



Also the following through Smithsonian Institution : 



Trans. Edinbnrg Geol. Soc, I., 3 ; On sandstone in Fifeshire, and on columns 

 in Mica schist, J. Haswell ; Smithsonian Contributions, XVI., 1 v. 4to., and 

 Miscel. Collections, A^III. and IX., 2 v. 8vo., Washington, 1869, Myriapoda 

 Nova Americana, Vespidaj Amcr. novae. Description de divers Myriapods, 

 Humbert & de Saussure, Paris, 1869, 3 pam. 8vo. Annals de I'Observatoire 

 Physique central de Russie, St. Petersburg, 1865, 1 v. 4to.; Melanges Physi- 

 ques et Chimiques, Dr. Wild, St. Petersburg, 1 v. 8vo.; Commelinacca3 Indicas, 

 Carl Hasskarl, Vienna, 1870, 1 v. 8vo.; Sertuin Tiauschauicum, Osten Sacken 

 & Ruprecht, 1869, 1 v. 4to.; Diuotheriorum genere, etc., J. F. Brandt, St. 



