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History of Civilization iu England. By H. T. Buckle. Vol. 1. 8vo. New 

 York, 1859. 



History of the Life and Times of James Madison. By Wm. C. Rives. Svo. 

 Vol. 1. Boston, 1859. 



Recollections of Samuel Rogers. 12mo. Boston, 1859. 



History of Methodism. By Abel Stevens, LL.D. 2 vols. 12mo. New 

 York, 1859. 



Life of John Milton. By David Masson. Vol.1. Svo. Boston, 1859. 



Fiji and the Fijians. By T. Williams and J. Clarke. 8vo. New York, 1859. 



Forty -four Years of the Life of a Hunter. 12mo. New York, 1859. 



Travels in Greece and Russia. By Bayard Taylor. 12mo. New York, 1859. 



Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions; or the Adventures of Sir John Franklin. 

 12mo. New York. Deposited by the Republican Institution. 



January 4, 1860. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward Hitchcock, Jr., of Amherst, made a com- 

 munication on the elongated, flattened, and curved peb- 

 bles found in the conglomerate of Vermont. 



Similar ones were first noticed in the Newport, R. I. conglom- 

 erate, where they are found parallel to each other and parallel to 

 the strike. In E. Wallingford and Fairfax, Vt., they are found 

 in a quartz conglomerate, the cementing material being sandstone 

 or talcose schist. 



Their origin he considered involved in obscurity ; he thought, 

 however, that the distortion must have been effected since their 

 deposition, and while they were in a plastic state ; he was at a 

 loss also to explain the frequent occurrence of jointed planes. 

 Chemical and electrical causes had been hinted at by his father, 

 Prof. Hitchcock. The occurrence of crystals of magnetic iron 

 gives evidence of a considerable and moist heat ; there is in Ver- 

 mont no evidence of a trap dyke or other igneous agency within a 

 few miles of their locality, and the influence of the former would 

 have been confined to a few feet on either side. 



