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RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE RHODE ISLAND ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY 



held its annual meeting June G, resulting in 



the election of the following officers : 



President— Edwin E. Calder. 

 Vice-President— Uevhevt Terry, m.d. 

 Secretary— Fra.uh E. Gray. 

 Treasurer— Charles W. Biddies. 

 Standing Committee— i. M. Southwick, John 

 A. Armstrong, Miss Mary C. Smith. 



MEETING OF THE PROVIDENCE FRANKLIN 

 SOCIETY. 



A regular meeting of the Franklin Society' 

 was held June 16. 



The president called attention to speci- 

 mens of water-worn rocks, picked up at 

 Beaver Tail, on the excursion of June 14. 

 An iron-stone specimen was recognized as 

 a Cumberland Hill fragment, and two others 

 as the peculiar kind of rock from the Central 

 Falls ledges, all having been transported to 

 the Beaver Tail locality b}' glacial action. 



Mr. D. W. Hoyt gave a very interesting 

 explanation of the Snake Den ridges and 

 the valley between, and what he belicA'cd to 

 be the glacial action by which the " Round 

 Rocks " boulders were transported from the 

 ledges to their present position. He be- 

 lieved the rocks to be a terminal moraine 

 of a comparatively thin glacier, the last of 

 the great ice-fields of this region. An ex- 

 amination of the ridges and valley showed 

 conditions which exactly fitted the theor}' 

 of the transportation of the boulders, while 

 their identity with the ledges was perfect. 

 Mr. Hoyt has spent a day in taking measure- 

 ments and examining this region, and ex- 

 pects to do more work upon the geology of 

 this region. 



Dr. W. O. Brown spoke briefly of the im- 

 portance of a survey of the state, and of 

 what had been already done. He also gave 

 an instance of a man in Johnston saving his 

 orchard from the ravages of the canker 

 worm by showering the trees with a mixture 

 of Paris green and water, it being perfectly 

 effective. 



The president announced the following 

 Botanical Committee : George Hunt,Thomas 

 Battey, D. W. Hoyt, and Mrs. Alden. 

 Adjourned to the call of the secretary in 

 September. 



THE LONSDALE BOTANICAL AND FIELD 

 NATURALIST SOGIETY. 



held its regular meeting June 9. A large 



' number of members were present, it being 



I the annual flower exhibition of the Society'. 



! The display was good, showing that the 



\ collectors must have examined considerable 



I country to obtain so man}' varieties. 



1 For the best bouquet of wild flowers the 



first prize was awarded to James Moss, 



second prize to Thomas Dearden, Jr. For 



the best three wild flowers, the first prize, 



John Dearden ; second prize, James Moss. 



For the best bouquet of cultivated flowers, 



I first prize, James Lord ; second prize, 



1 James Isherwood. For the best three cul- 



I tivated flowers, first prize, John Osborn ; 



second prize, John Dearden ; third prize, 



James Moss. 



Mr. Thomas Lambert exhibited a Bird of 

 I Paradise, a Trogon, and a Scarlet Ibis. 



^ We are informed that Mr. John Krider, 



I of Philadelphia, has sold his stock of birds' 



eggs to Dr. Detwiller, of Bethlehem, Penn. 



/ Have watched the building of the nests 

 : of the Marsh Hawk this year. Of the five 

 : nests found, two were composed of a small 

 i quantity of grass and remained so. The 

 remainder were started with a simple found- 

 ation, but were added to every day until 

 they made substantial nests. One I visited 

 I June 2 was still being added to, although 

 I the young had been hatched for several 

 days. 



Found a Towhee's nest containing one 

 egg of her own and three cowbird's. 



G. S. A. 



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A French engineer, after a series of ex- 

 periments with a loaf of bread baked hy a 

 Vassar College girl, now announces that the 

 project of tunneling Mont Blanc is entirely' 

 practicable. — Philadelph ia News. 



A Cincinnati clergyman thought he would 

 raise his own pork. So he bought five pigs 

 and fattened them. Now that the}' are fit 

 to kill, he says they seem so much like his 

 own children that he hasn't the heart to kill 

 them. The pigs are in good luck, but it's 

 rather hard on the children. — Boston Tran- 

 script. 



