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insect. Specimens of it are constantly being caught about the 
windows and walls in this city, and thus far there has not been 
a single victim to its devastating fury.” 
Here follows the translation of the article upon the ‘‘ Reputa- 
tion of the Lantern-Fly” taken from the September number of 
the American Naturalist for 1885. 
November 28, 1887. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Pror. J. S. NEwBERRY, in the Chair. 
Sixty-nine persons present. 
Mr. A. L. Ewine exhibited a water inclusion in quartz, 
from Brazil. 
Dr. H. Carrincton Bouton read a paper entitled 
NOTES OF RECENT TRAVEL IN EUROPE, 
(Abstract. ) 
Under this title Dr. Bolton spoke of his experiences and ob- 
servations of a scientific and literary character during the pre- 
ceding summer. After alluding to the deplorable condition of 
the stokers on ocean steamers, who work in a temperature vary- 
ing from 92° to 98° (outside being 67°), the speaker pointed 
out the literary blunder on a tablet erected in 1882 in Westmin- 
ster Abbey by the dean and chapter. It reads, to the memory 
of “‘J. Lemuel Chester, L. L. D., of Columbia College,” in- 
stead of LL.D., as every tyro knows it should be. In Oxford 
he visited Dr. J. A. H. Murray, and the remarkable iron 
*scriptorium ” in which the manuscript of the new English 
dictionary of the Philological Society is preserved. He also 
visited the Bodleian Library, and made some study of the por- 
traits of Priestley in the Hope collection, and of Dr. Dee’s al- 
chemical manuscripts in the Ashmolean collection. He exhib- 
ited a photograph of the statue of Dr. Priestley erected in the 
University museum. 
At Brighton he examined the workings of Volk’s Electric 
Railway, a line first opened in August, 1883, and extended af- 
terwards to one mile in length. Cars seating thirty passengers 
are run at a speed of eight miles an hour by an electric motor 
