THE OCEAN — A LECTURE. 57 



Prof. Charles Girard, - - Washington, D. 0. 



" S. S. Haldeman, - - - - 

 W. C. Redfield, Esq., - - - New York. 



The Society adjourned to attend a Soiree Microscopique, 

 given by Dr. Goadby. 



Regular Meeting, January 17, 1854. 



The committee on the Sorex reported that they had com- 

 pared it with the description of S. Parvus, Say,- and found 

 no descrepancies between the specimen and description 

 which would warrant them in referring it to a different 

 species. They are therefore disposed to regard it as the S. 

 Farvus^ Say, with which there is reason to suspect S. Cin- 

 ereous^ Bach., to be identical. 



Dr. Kirtland presented a new species of Alhurmis, A. 

 Nitichis^ described below. Also the continuation of his 

 Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of Ohio. 



Prof. Cassels presented a paper on three species of the 

 genus Hypnum. 



Dr. Garlick presented a short report on viviparous gener- 

 ation of Lake Fishes. 



A lecture was delivered by Prof. Jehu Brainerd, on the 

 Ocean^ its Origin and Phenomena^ of which a synopsis 

 will be found below. 



THE OCEAN— ITS ORIGIN AND PHENOMENA. 



BY PROF. JEHU BRAINERD. 



Synopsis of a Lecture before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science. 



The lecturer first noticed some of the theories respecting 

 the original condition of our planet. The most plausible 

 one, in his opinion, was that which presents the earth, in its 

 original condition, before the formation of a solid crust, in a 

 state of fusion or incandescence from heat; that it had been 

 shown by Sir Isaac Newton, and others, that a fluid mass, 



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