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tively small appropriation, and would give to the public the fruit of 
large expenditures previously made,—is demanded by the honor of the 
State,—and would greatly facilitate the labors of every geologist in the 
country = 
It is therefore, 
Resolved, That the best interests of the State of New York, and the 
credit and usefulness of science in America, would be advanced by the 
completion of the great work on the Paleontology of New York, con- 
tinued through so many years under the supervision of Prof. James 
Hall; and, 
Resolved, That the members of the State Legislature be, and hereby 
are, earnestly requested to make the necessary appropriations for the 
publication of the material already prepared, while it may have the 
benefit of the supervision of the distinguished paleontologist who has 
been the author of the preceding volumes; and, 
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the President 
and Secretary of the Academy, be transmitted to the Governor of the 
State, and to the presiding officers of the Senate and Assembly. 
O. P. HUBBARD. J. S. NEWBERRY. 
Rec. Secretary. President. 
THE PRESIDENT read a letter from MR. CHARLES W. LOVETT, of 
Centre Marshfield, Mass., regarding the rate of accumulation of salt- 
marsh deposits in eastern Massachusetts. At various points in his vi- 
cinity, Mr. LOVETT reports the finding of bricks identical with those 
used for the chimney of the old Peregrine White house, buried beneath 
three feet of compact undisturbed marsh-soil. Wood cut by the civil- 
ized axe, and other articles, he also mentions as found at the same 
depth, and in like situations. The rate of growth seems to be general, 
and not local or accidental; and some clue may thus be gained as to 
the movement of the coast-level in this region. 
Dr. ALBERT R. LEEDS gave a brief account of the methods of 
formation and the properties of a number of new componnds of the or- 
ganic aromatic bases, with the haloid and other salts of the metals. The 
resulting compounds are substances formed on the ammonium type, 
with as many hydrogen atoms replaced as would correspond with the 
valences of the metallic radical entering into combination. When cer- 
tain of these compounds, such as the Di-phenyl-mercurammonium 
chloride, or cyanide, or the Di-tolyl-mercurammonium cyanide, are 
exposed, along with carbon bisulphide, to the action of sun-light or of 
heat, part of the sulphur in the carbon bisulphide unites with the me- 
tallic radical, hydrochloric or hydrocyanic acid is evolved, and Di-phenyl- 
sulpho-carbamide or Di-tolyl-sulpho-carbamide is formed. 
