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and arranged illustrations ; or follow out the theory and 

 state the conclusions deduced, either upon general or spe- 

 cial instances. Our narrow space is inadequate to give a 

 competent view of a thoroughly digested and systematic 

 analysis of such a subject. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, Nov. 18, 1872. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The PKESIDENT 

 in the chair. Records of preceding meeting read. 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



Bremen, Naturwissenschaft verein, Sept. 7; Brunn, Naturforschende verein, 

 Apr. 2; Cherbourg, Soci^te Nationale des Sciences Naturelles, Juillet; Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences, Oct. 8; Danvers, Peabody Institute, Nov. 7; Sacramento, 

 Agassiz Institute, Nov. 1, 3; Chipman, E. M., Lisbon, Conn., Nov. 8; Foster, J. 

 W., Chicago, 111., Nov. 11; Levette, Gilbert M., Indianapolis, Nov. 9; Newberry, 

 J. S., New York, Nov. 13; Perry, W. S., Geneva, N. Y.,Nov. 14; Pumpelly, Raphael, 

 St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 11; White, C. A., Iowa City, Iowa, Nov. 11; Waters, J. Linton, 

 Chicago, 111., Nov. 9; Woods, Katie T., Salem, Oct. 24. 



The letters from the "Agassiz Institute," the one by 

 Dr. Thomas M. Logan, the President, the other by the 

 Corresponding Secretary, Rev. J. H. C. Bonte, may be 

 especially noticed, as officially announcing the organiza- 

 tion of a scientific institution under the above name in 

 Sacramento ; and sending "its first greeting to the Essex 

 Institute, Salein, Mass." "In framing our constitution 

 and laws," Rev. Mr. Bonte writes, "we have used yours 

 as our model, and we therefore address you first. Our 

 opportunity for adding material for the study of natural 

 history is, we think, great, and we begin with great 

 hopes of a splendid future." 



