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Popular Geology. By Hugh ^liller. With a Resume of the Progress of Geo- 

 logical Science, by Mrs. ^liller. 12nio. Boston, 1859. 



Curiosities of Natural Histor}-. By F. T. Buckland. 8vo. New York, 1859. 



Country Life: a Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gar- 

 dening. By R. Morris Copeland. 8vo. Boston, 1859. 



Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen. By J. W. Stuart. 8vo. Boston, 1859. 



Irving's Life of Washington. Vol. V. 8vo. New York, 1859. 



Life of Frederick Schiller. By T. Carlyle. 12mo. Philadelphia, 1859. 



EncyclopjBdia Britannica. Vol. XVHL 



Acadia. By F. S. Cozzens. 12mo. New York, 1859. 



Cai'lyle's History of Frederick the Great. Vols. 1, 2. 12mo. New York, 

 1859. 



Memoir of the Empress Catherine H., written by herself. 12mo. New York, 

 1859. 



Leaves from the Note-Book of a Naturalist. By W. J. Broderip. 8vo. Pamph. 

 Boston, 1859. 



Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches. By T. Carlyle. 2 vols. 8vo. New 

 York, 1858. 



Queens of Scotland. By Agnes Strickland. Vols. 6, 7, 8. New York, 1859. 



The French Revolution of 1789. By J. S. C. Abbot. 8vo. New York, 1859. 



Perry's Expedition to Japan. 8vo. New York, 1856. 



Washington in Domestic Life. By R. Rush. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1857. 



Life of J. Montgomery. By H. C. Knight. ]2mo. Boston, 1857. Deposiiedhy 

 the Republican Institution. 



October 5, 1859. 



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



Dr. C. F. Winslow read a paper on " Geological Revo- 

 lutions." 



• A communication was read from Mr. George Curtis, 

 of Newton Lower Falls, on the habits of the trout or 

 short-nosed pickerel, (Esoz fasciatus, Dekay.) 



It is generally found either in what are called " water-bushes," 

 (Cephalcmthus occidetitalis,) or in pickerel-weed. During dog- 

 days, when other pickerel are found at the bottom in the channel, 

 these are taken in the same localities that they frequent at all 

 seasons, and are rarely, if ever, taken in the deep channel water. 

 They take the bait with great eagerness, and, turning abruptly, 

 make back into the shallow coverts whence they darted. The 



