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Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Vol. XV. No. 57, for February, 

 1859. Svo. London. 



Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiologj\ Parts 51 and 52. From the 

 Courtis Fund. 



Life of James Sullivan. By T. C. Amory. 2 vols. Svo. Boston, 1859. 



Biography of Dr. E. K. Kane. By William Elder. Svo. Philadelphia, 1869. 



History of New England. By J. G. Palfrey. Vol.1. Svo. Boston, 1858. 



Modem English Essayists, Carlyle, Talfourd, Stephens, Alison, Wilson, Jef- 

 frey, Macaulay, Mackintosh, Smith. 8 vols. Svo. Boston, 1858. 



Life and Times of Hugh Miller. By T. N. Brown. 12mo. New York, 1858. 



History of the Anglo-Saxons. By T. Miller. 12mo. London, 1852. 



History of the Reign of Philip IL, King of Spain. Vol. 3. Svo. Boston, 1859. 



Jewish Wars of Flavius Josephus. Translated by Rev. R. Trail. Svo. Bos- 

 ton, 1858. 



Memoirs of the Court of England under the Stuarts. 3 vols. 12mo. (Bohn's.) 

 1857. Dejposited by the Rejiublican Institution. 



April 6, 1859. 

 Dr. C. T. Jackson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. C. F. Winslow read a communication from Mr. 

 Henry M. Lyman, on the recent eruption of the volcano 

 of Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich Islands. 



The eruption occurred on the 23d of January, 1859. On the 

 evemng of Saturday, Jan. 22, the snow on the mountain was seen 

 white and unobscured by clouds or vapors ; there were no signs 

 of smoke, and none of eruption. On Sunday, thick clouds of 

 smoke were seen gathering about the mountain, and at evening 

 the whole sky was lighted with a terrific glare, and the lava could 

 be seen spouting from a crater near the summit of Mauna Loa. 

 As in all the other eruptions from that mountain, the lava was thrown 

 up in a jet, apparently nearly one thousand feet high ; it flowed 

 down the northern slope of the mountain, and in one or two days 

 " formed for itself a covered channel from the summit crater to 

 the plain between the mountains." So rapidly was it poured out, 

 that before the morning of the 24th the lava appeared to have 

 spread across the plain to the base of Mauna Kea. As seen from 

 Hilo, the original source seemed to be very near the crafer from 

 which issued the flow of 1855-56 ; but so dense was the smoke, 



