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Miscellaneous Intelligence, 301 



13^. Smithsonian Eeport for 1856.— The Annual Report of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for 1856, contains, besides other details, a report on the 

 progress of the Zoological Museum, which has increased in six years from 

 almost ^nothing to about 12,000 species, mostly from the Government 

 Surveying Expeditions through the west, and the labors of Prof. S, F. 

 Baird ; also abstracts of the lectures delivered before the Institution during 

 the year ; a paper by Prof. Henry on the mode of testing building materi- 

 als ; a continuation of a Report on the Progress of Physics, besides other 

 scientific papers. 



14. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, 10th Meeting, held at Albany, New York, August, 1856, 26a 

 pp., 8vo, Cambridge, 185Y, Published for the Association by Joseph 

 LovEraxG, Permanent Secretary, — The American Association is greatly 

 mdebted to Prof, Lovering for the care he has bestowed in the printing 

 and publication of the proceedings. 



15. Eleventh Meeting of the American Association. — The eleventh 



Association 



Wednesd 

 W. Baile^ 



Tlie presi- 



president, Professor Caswell of Brown University, was the acting Presi- 

 dent. The number of members in attendance was as large as at any 

 previous meeting. Mr. Ramsay was received as delegate from the 

 ^ Creological Society of London, and Mr. B. Seeman, from the Linnsean 



^ Society of London. The departments of astronomy, physics, meteorology 



and rrr'nlnrvr ivptp waII rpnr^^spnt.prl hv nnnprs. and esnociallv the last- and 



there were also important 



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^gj) botany, and chemistry, the communications were exceedingly few. 

 A biographical memoir of Mr. William C. Redfield, the first president of 

 the Association, was read by Professor D. Olmsted, and one of Professor 

 Bailey, by Dr. k. A. Gould of Boston. The retiring President, Prof. 

 James Hall, delivered an address on American Geology. 



Commodious accommodations for the meetings, were afforded the 

 Association, at the Court House, by the government of Canada, and gen- 

 erous attentions by citizens of Montreal. Each member Avas furnished ou 

 arrival with a large folded card, containing, on one side, a plan of the 

 Court House, a list of the officers of the Association, and an enumeratiou 

 of the places of public interest in and about Montreal, and on the other, 

 a map of the city oi Montreal and of the St Lawrence adjoining with its 

 islands, and also a colored geological map of Canada for a circuit of fifty 

 lailes around Montreal, showing the outlines of the formations as laid 

 down by Sir William E. Logan, under whom the geological survey is still 



progress 



attraction 



Museum, containing the collections made in the course of this survey- 

 It was remarkable for the extent and variety of root specimens, and the 

 great number and beauty of the fossils ; no geological survey on this or 

 aiiy other continent has been carried forward with greater energy or skill 

 The following is a list of the papers presented at this meeting. As in 

 other cases, we publish no abstracts of papers read, except such as may 

 ^ furnished us by the authors. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 



