146 Bibliography. 



11. Volcanic Eruption at the Cape Verds. — There was a volcanic 

 eruption about the 1st of April, on the island of Fogo, (of the Cape 

 Verd group,) which continued ten or fifteen days, throwing out show- 

 ers of earth and stones to a great height, and emitting huge streams 

 of lava, which, running down the mountain, destroyed many houses 

 and plantations, and caused some loss of life. All vegetation and ma 

 ny goats and cattle were destroyed by the heat of the earth, the show 

 ers of stones and the lava. The shock was distinctly felt on the neigh 

 boring islands, and caused much alarm at Port Praya, where the vibra 

 Uons were very violent and almost unceasing for seven or eight days 

 The crater of Fogo is 12,000 feet above the sea, and eruptions occur 

 once in twenty or thirty years. — Salem Reg. 



12. Science and the Arts at Harvard. — The Hon. Abbott Law- 

 rence of Boston, has presented to the Corporation of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be expended in establishing a 

 school for the purpose of teaching the practical sciences, embracin 

 Engineering, Mining in its extended sense, including Metallurgy, an 

 the invention and manufacture of Machinery. One department is 

 already occupied by the Rumford Professor in that institution, Prof. 

 E. N. Horsford. 



• ! u 3 L Associalion °f American Geologists and Naturalists.— The 

 eighth annual meeting of the Association of American Geologists and 

 Naturalists, will be held in Boston, commencing on the third Monday 



(20th) of September, 1847, at 10, a. m., continuing for one week there- 

 alter. ° 



Officers of the Association elected at the last meeting 



* 



Chairman, Dr. Amos Binney. 

 Treasurer, Prof. B. Silliman, Jr. 

 Secretary, Dr. J. Wyman. 



Standing Committee.— The President, Treasurer, and Secretary, 

 ex officio. Dr. J E. Holbrook. Prof. H. D. Rogers. Prof. B. Sil- 

 liman Pres. E Hitchcock. William C. Redfield, Esq. Lakp- 

 ner Vanuxem, Esq. L. C. Beck. John L. Hayes. 



Local Committee. 



Hon. Nathan Appleton. Dr. A. A. Gould. 



Hon. Abbott Lawrence. Dr. D. H. Storer. 



John A. Lowell, Esq. Dr. S. Cabot, Jr. 



Hr John C. Warren. Dr. C. T. Jackson. 



frot. A. Gray. Francis Alger, Esq. 



VI. Bibliography. 



1. Elementary Geology ; by Edward Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D-. 

 Resident of Amherst College ; eighth edition, revised, enlarged and 

 adapted to the present advanced state of the science, with an introduc- 

 tory notice by John Pye Smith, D.D., F.R.S., and F.G.S., &c. N e * 

 *ork, 1847.— This work has long sustained its well deserved reputation- 



* Since deceased. 



