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retained their sonorous property for so long a time, and that even 
the faintest manifestation would be an interesting success. Both 
samples were audible throughout the whole audience. 
October 22, 1888. 
StaTED MEETING. 
The President, Dr. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
Fifty-four persons present, 
Dr. NEWBERRY exhibited remarkably fine specimens of stro- 
meyerite and native silver, from the Silver King Mine, Arizona. 
He then gave the paper of the evening, entitled :— 
““THE GREAT MUSEUMS OF EUROPE, NOTES ON THEIR CON- 
TENTS AND ARRANGEMENT,—INCLUDING THOSE OF EDIN- 
BURGH, LONDON (THE OLD BRITISH MUSEUM, SOUTH KEN- 
SINGTON AND JERMYN STREET), BRUSSELS, LIEGE, PARIS, 
BERLIN, MUNICH, AND DRESDEN.” 
The paper was largely occupied with an account of the con- 
struction and arrangement of the South Kensington Museum, 
and the disposition of the great amount of paleontological 
material, new and old, now gathered there; also of the collec- 
tions of Devonian fishes and plants from the ‘‘ yellow sandstone,” 
in the museum at Edinburgh; and especially of the extensive 
and wonderful series of Dinosaurs now mounted at Brussels, far 
surpassing any display of these peculiarly interesting forms to 
be seen elsewhere in the world. 
October 29, 1888. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Dr. NEwBeErry, in the chair. 
Forty persons present. 
Mr. G. F. Kunz sent a communication, read by Pror. 
MAkTIN, on the occurrence of Bertrandite at Stoneham, Me., 
and Mount Antero, Col., and other minerals. 
