TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY. 



H. CARRINGTON BOLTON. 



TAGK 



Recent Progress in Chemistry (Marcli 15, 1886) 179-203 



Peroxides of Potassium and Sodium (April 5, 1886) 214 



N. L. BRIXTON. 



•Geological Notes in Western Virginia, North Carolina, and Eastern 



Tennessee (April 5, 1886) 215-223 



R. M. CAFFALL. 



The Preservation of Building Materials by the Application of Paraf- 



fine, as Recently Used upon the Obelisk (November 23, 1885)... 56-66 



B. B. CHAMBERLIN. 



Minerals of Harlem and vicinitj^ (November 30, 1885) 74-77 



Mmerals of Staten Island (April 19, 1886) 228-230 



p. H. DUDLEY. 



Fungi Inducing Decay in Timber (January 4, 1886) 110-117 



The Inception and Progress of Railways (February 1, 1886) 137-151 



CARL H. EIGENMANN. 



A Review of the Genera and Species of Diodontidce Found in Amer- 

 ican Seas (December 21, 1885), 7-ead by title 89 



HERMAN LEROY FAIRCHILD. 



A History of the Society (May 10, 1886), brief abstract 233 



J. J. FRIEDRICH. 



Notes on Local Mineralogy (January 18, 1886), brief abstract 121 



WILLIAM EARL HIDDEN. 



Preliminaty Note on an Iron Meteorite from Maverick Co., Texas 

 (April 26, 1886) 231 



