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lively small appropriation, and would give to the public the fruit of 

 large expenditures previously made, — is demanded by the honor of the 

 State, — and would greatly facilitate the labors of every geologist in the 

 country ; — 



It is therefore, 



Resolved, That the best interests of the .State of New York, and the 

 credit and usefulness of science in America, would be advanced by the 

 completion ot the great work on the Palaeontology of New York, con- 

 tinued through so many years under the supervision of Prof. James 

 Hall; and. 



Resolved, That the members of the State Legislature be, and hereby 

 are, earnestly requested to make the necessary appropriations for the 

 publication of the material already prepared, while it may have the 

 beneht of the supervision of the distinguished palaeontologist who has 

 been the author of the preceding volumes ; and. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the President 

 and Secretary of the Academy, be transmitted to the Governor of the 

 State, and to the presiding officers of the Senate and Assembly. 



O. P. Hubbard. J. S. Newberry. 



Rec. Secretary. Preszdeftt. 



The President read a letter from Mr. Charles W. Lovett, of 

 Centre Marshfield, Mass., regarding the rate of accumulation of salt- 

 marsh deposits in eastern Massachusetts. At various points in his vi- 

 cinity, Mr. Lovett reports the finding of bricks identical with those 

 used for the chimney of the old Peregrine White house, buried beneath 

 three feet of compact undisturbed marsh-soil. Wood cut by the civil- 

 ized axe, and other articles, he also mentions as found at the same 

 depth, and in like situations. The rate of growth seems to be general, 

 and not local or accidental ; and some clue may thus be gained as to 

 the movement of the coast-level in this region. 



Dr. Albert R. Leeds gave a brief account of the methods of 

 formation and the properties of a number of new compounds of the or- 

 ganic aromatic bases, with the haloid and other salts of the metals. The 

 resulting compounds are substances formed on the ammonium type, 

 with as many hydrogen atoms replaced as would correspond with the 

 valences of the metallic radical entering into combination. When cer- 

 tain of these compounds, such as the Di-phenyl-mercurammonium 

 chloride, or cyanide, or the Di-tolyl-mercurammonium cyanide, are 

 exposed, along with carbon bisulphide, to the action of sun-light or of 

 heat, part of the sulphur in the carbon bisulphide unites with the me- 

 tallic radical, hydrochloric or hydrocyanic acid is evolved, and Di-phenyl- 

 sulpho-carbamide or Di-tolyl-sulpho-carbamide is formed. 



