Bryant.] 90 



It may not be generally known that the emery of the Grecian Ar- 

 chipelago is monopolized by a single banking-house in London, and 

 those of Asia INIinor are also monopolized by a single mercantile 

 house in Smyrna, these monopolies having raised the price of emery 

 four-fold. Now Massachusetts overrides this monopoly, and can supply 

 not only this country, but the entire world with the best of emery for 

 all coming time. 



One of our citizens, a member of the Society, Mr. John B. Taft of 

 Boston, is, in behalf of his associates, the present manager of this new 

 mining enterprise, and possesses adequate means and authority to 

 render their operations prosperous. 



Boston, Dec. 17, 1864. 



Dr. B. J. Jeffries announced that on the Friday evening 

 previous, several members of the Society specially interested 

 in microscopical studies, had met in the room of that depart- 

 ment to take active measures to organize a Section of Micro- 

 scopy, and invited all members interested to attend the next 

 meeting on the "Wednesday evening following, when it was 

 hoped the organization would be permanently effected. 



January 4, 1865. 



The President in the chair. 



Thirty-two members present. 



Mr. W. H. Niles presented " An Enumeration of Fossils 

 collected in the Niagara Limestone at Chicago, Illinois, with 

 descriptions of several new species." By Prof. Alexander 

 Winchell and Prof. Oliver Marcy. 



Remarks on the Type of Buteo insignatus Cassin. By 

 Henry Bryant, M. D. 



Since writing the paper on Buteo Harlani? published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volume VIII., page 107, 

 I have had an opportunity of examining at the Smithsonian Institution 

 the original specimen* on which Buteo insignatus Cassin was founded. 



* This specimen was kindly loaned for this purpose by its present proprietreis, 

 Mrs. McCulloch, through the mediation of George Barnston, Esq., of Montreal. 



