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of the occurrence of any of the facts revealed 

 to us by the study of geology at a period, in 

 fact, which might be called p re-terrestrial. 



Classification of Meteorites. Mr. K. P. Greg 

 has published a pamphlet, containing an ar- 

 rangement of meteorites based on mineralogical 

 and structural characters. Of this an outline 

 only can be given, the reader being referred for 

 the definitions of the groups to an abstract in 

 the American Journal of Science, November, 

 1865. The system is as follows : 



CLASS I. AEBOLITES. 



ORDER A. Specific gravity mostly between 

 1.7 and 8.2, and containing little or no metallic 

 iron. Groups a, Carbonaceous; Z>, Howard- 

 itic ; e, Feldspathic ; d, Crystalline (magnesia- 

 silicates) ; e, Vesicular. 



OEDER B. Sp. gr. mostly between 3.25 and 

 3.9. Groups a, Variolitic; &, Sommitic (Mt. 

 Sqmma, Vesuvius) ; c, Tufaceous ; d, Psammitic 

 (2 forms) ; , Chondritic (2 forms) ; f, Blanskitic 

 (Blansko meteorite) ; g, Erxlebenitic (Erxleben 

 do.}. 



CLASS II. SlDEBOLITES. 



ORDER C. Sp. gr. 4-7, meteoric iron, con- 

 taining or mixed with stony material and sili- 

 cates. Groups , Pallasites (2 forms) ; J, part- 

 ly or irregularly mixed with silicates ; c r con- 

 taining aerolithic fragments, imbedded in iron. 

 CLASS IIL METZOBIC IRONS, OB AEBOSIDEBITES. 



ORDER D. Sp. gr. between 7 and 8. Groups 

 -a, Agrammic (2 forms) ; 5, Microgramraic ; 

 c, Eugrammic ; <Z, Spora-grammic (2 forms) ; e, 

 Nephelic ; f, Undetermined. 



METHODISTS. The year 1866 being the 

 centenary of American Methodism, and the 

 General Conference of 1864 having passed a 

 resolution to celebrate it in an appropriate 

 manner, the attention of the Church was prom- 

 inently occupied with the necessary prepara- 

 tions. The programme for the celebration of 

 the year was definitely agreed upon in the 

 meeting of the General Centenary Committee, 

 held on November 8, 1865. The most im- 

 portant points of this programme were the 

 following: A ''Centenary Educational Fund" 

 is to be placed before the people as the promi- 

 nent object for connectional contributions. This 

 fund is to be placed in the hands of a board of 

 12 members (2 bishops, 4 ministers, 6 laymen), 

 to be called the " Centenary Connectional Edu- 

 cational Board of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Chtfrch." To contributors desiring to specify 

 the precise objects of their centenary subscrip- 

 tions in whole or in part, it shall be open to 

 include the following objects, namely : 1. The 

 Centenary Educational Fund. 2. The Garrett 

 Biblical School at Evanston. 3. The Methpdist . 

 General Biblical Institute at Concord, to be 

 removed to the vicinity of Boston. 4. A Bib- 

 lical Institute in the Eastern Middle States. 5. 

 A Biblical Institute in Cincinnati or vicinity. 

 6. A Biblical Institute on the Pacific coast. 7. 

 The erection of Centenary Missionary buildings 

 for the Mission House at New York. 8. The 



Irish Connectional Fund. 9. The Biblical School 

 at Bremen, Germany. 10. The Chartered 

 Fund. (Such sums as contributors may de- 

 sire to appropriate in that way to the support 

 of worn-out preachers, their widows and or- 

 phans.) 



A separate Sunday-School Children's Fund 

 is to be established, for the purpose of assisting 

 meritorious Sunday-School scholars of either 

 sex who may need help in obtaining a more 

 advanced education. 



The membership of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, in 1865, was, according to the "Meth 

 odist Almanac for 1866," as follows : 



