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in this brief notice. In the shallow waters many interesting spe 

 cies were obtained. Among these was a new species of Crangonijx, 

 a genus closely allied to Gammarus, and heretofore known only 

 from a few species found in the fresh waters of the old world, 

 which occurred in 8 to 13 fathoms; and at the same depth, spe- 

 cies of Lumhricus, NeplicHs, Procotyla, Gammarus, AseUiis, 

 Limncea, Phi/sa, Planorhis, Valvata, Sphcerium, Pisidium, etc^ 

 A full report will soon be published. 



S. I. Smith in Silliman's Journal. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Award of the Wollaston Medal to Prof. J. D. Dana, 

 — Geological Society, February 16. — Mr. Joseph Prestwich, F, 

 il,S., president, in the chair. — The Secretary read the reports of 

 the council, of the Library and Museum Committee, and of the 

 auditors. The general position of the society was decribed as sa~ 

 tisfactory, although, owing to the number of deaths which had 

 taken place amoug the fellows during the year 1871, the society 

 did not show the same increase which has characterised former 

 years. In presenting the Wollaston gold medal to the Secretary, 

 Mr. David Forbes, for transmission to Prof. Dana, of Yale col- 

 lege, Connecticut, the President said : — "I have the pleasure to 

 announce that the Wollaston Medal has been conferred on Prof. 

 Dana, of Yale College, Newhaven, U.S.; and in handing it to you 

 for transmission to our Foreign Member, I beg to express the 

 great gratification it affords me that the award of the Council ha^ 

 fallen on so distingnished and veteran a geologist. Prof. Dana's 

 works have a world-wide reputation. Few branches of geology 

 but have received his attention. An able naturalist and a skilful 

 mineralogist, he has studied our science with advantages of which 

 few of us can boast. His contributions to our science embrace 

 cosmical questions of primary importance — palaeontological ques- 

 tions of special interest — recent phenomena in their bearings on 

 geology, and raineralogical investigations so essential to the right 

 study of rocks, especially of volcanic phenomena. The wide range 

 of knowledge he brought to bear in the production of his excellent 

 treatise on Geology, one of the best of our class books, embracing 

 the elements as well as the principles of geology, is well known. His 



