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Dr. R. P. Stevens remarked, in regard to the ancient 
trough or channel spoken of by Dr. Newberry, that it runs 
for a long distance through the State of New York, and 
almost all the salt-borings are made in it, as they are at Lake 
Onondaga, just now described. It runs along the northern 
edge of the Salina group, and seems to have been worn in its 
soft outcrop. 
January 27th. 
The severity of the storm prevented the meeting from 
being held. 
February 8d, business meeting. 
Dr. L. FeEucHTWANGER in the chair. 
Dr. Louis Etspere read a paper “ On the subdivisions of 
Science, and their classification,” illustrated with charts of the 
distribution of different branches of human knowledge, as 
related’ to a comprehensive system. ‘This paper is published 
in the Annals of the Lyceum, Vol. X., No. 10. 
Dr. B. N. Martin and Dr. WaAuz made remarks on the 
scheme of classification suggested. Dr. Martin regarded it as 
the most complete and comprehensive that he had ever met 
with. ‘The subject is of course one of much interest, and has 
been treated of by several writers, especially by Whewell & 
Thomson in England, and by Comte and Ampeére in France; 
but in his judgment, nowhere had so comprehensive a view 
been combined with so much minuteness and accuracy of 
detail. The feature which distinguished, in every depart- 
ment, the history and genesis of the objects of study, under 
the termination —ogeny, from the description and arrangement 
