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refers it perhaps to bergs carried by northward currents, such 
as have been observed in Smith’s Sound. 
Dr, Newberry also exhibited an extensive series of large 
photographs of scenery, etc, taken by Lieut, Wheeler's 
party, showing moraines of extinct Rocky Mountain glaciers, 
the Mount of the Holy Cross, ete. 
Pror. D. S. MarTIN announced the appointment by the 
naval authorities, of a naturalist to accompany the Transit 
Expedition, as had been proposed and sought by the Lyceum. 
Unable to add a civilian to the already crowded party on the 
ship, the Department had appointed a medical officer of the 
Navy, himself a naturalist, as Assistant Surgeon, and had 
committed to him the charge of making observations and 
collections. This was a highly gratifying piece of intelli- 
gence, both in the general interest of science, and especially 
to the Lyceum as the prime mover in the matter. 
Dr. O. W. Morris read a paper on the Meteorology of 
the month of March, published with those of April and May, 
in these Proceedings, June 1st. 
May 4th. Business Meeting. 
PRESIDENT NEWBERRY in the chair. Ten persons present. 
The Committee on Nominations recommended the follow- 
ing gentlemen for election :— 
As Resident Members, Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa, Dr. 
Charles G. Am Ende (of Hoboken), Mr. Charles A. Colton, 
EH. M., Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D., and Messrs. Arnold 
Hague, Charles T. White, Wm. H. 8. Thorburn, Wm. E. 
Gifford, and 8S. F. Emmons. 
As Corresponding Members, Messrs. C. Hart Merriam, of 
Locust Grove, N. Y., C. J. Maynard, of Ipswich, Mass., H. 
A. Purdie, of Boston, Mass., James D. Hague, of Boston, 
Mass., Ruthven Deane, of Cambridge, Mass., Prof. J. A. 
Allen, of Cambridge, Mass., Prof. Darius R. Ford, of Elmira, 
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