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XV. On Telephoning over long Distances or through Cables. 



By N. D. C. IIod<;ks 268 



XVI. On the Young Stages of some Osseous Fishes. "With Plates. 



By Alkxandkr Agassiz . 2~\ 



XVII. XVI. — Experiments on the Fatigue of small Spruce-Beams. 



By F. E. Kidder 304 



XVIII. Contributions to American Botany. By Seuexo Watsox 316 



Proceedings 383 



Memoirs : — 



Ricliard Henry Dana 399 



Ralph Waldo Emerson 403 



Thomas Potts James 405 



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 406 



John Amory Lowell 408 



Theophilus Parsons 411 



Edward Reynolds 414 



Henry Charles Carey 417 



Edward Desor 400 



John William Draner 404 



Lewis Henry Mor . . 409 



St. Julien Ravenf 



Admiral John Re 



Barnas Sears 



-"'"'liann Kaspar I 



Chirles Darwin 



Joseph Decaisne 



Theodor Schwai 



Dean Stanley . 



List of the Feli 

 Index .... 



