208 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
C. T. Jackson of Boston, presented a box of minerals col- 
lected by himself, illustrating the geology and mineralogy o 
Nova Scotia, and a part of Massachusetts. The collection 
consisted of upwards of seventy choice and well selected 
specimens, among which the following were more particu- 
Jarly | noticed. Laumonite, Thomsonite, and radiated Meso- 
Peta purple Scapolite, white Heulandite, yellow Chabzsie, 
Petal, Biases variety,) with crystals of ferruginous oxide of 
c. &c. 
eile ee Cooper and Cozzens, who have re- 
cently returned from an extensive tour through the western 
states, presented a mass of tertiary rock from the shore of 
the Potomac, sixty miles below Washington. It contained 
casts of Turitella, Arca, Calyptrea, Pectonculis, Ampulla- 
ria, &c. and was considered as precisely similar in fossil 
contents with the clay of the London basin.—A letter was 
received from the secretary of the navy, returning thanks to 
the L. oir the interest they had taken in the proposed 
ve of discovery, and for the oe instructions with 
he had been furnished by the Lyceum.—Dr. Mitchill 
at a continuation of his paper on the progress of fhe nat- 
ural sciences in the United States.—Dr. Torrey presented 
phantoides recently discovered in the “stoves of Ava.—The 
president delivered a discourse founded upon the recent de- 
cease of a member, Mr. D. H. Barnes.— Messrs. Cooper 
Mer = ——, he Sa _ formations in the 
nei, entucky,) with tw 
illustrating the geology of th They ales exhibited 
an extensive series rst of the teeth and bone 
the mastodon of various ages, and the elephant.—They ‘io 
pose to give a detailed description of these specimens at 
some future meeting.—Mr. Louis Ianin of Paris, was elected 
a corresponding, = ong I. Brinkerhoff, and Mr. Isaac 8. 
Hone, resident membe 
Decemper.—. Torrey stated that bevee treated a por- 
tion of a fossil za from Kentucky, (probably that of a mas- 
todon,) with dilute muriatic acid, the animal matter still re- 
