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about their cottages and fields.’ 
American Association vt the Advancement of Science—The 
ninth meeting of the American Association was held at Providence, 
ORREY be 
during the week commencing with August 15th, Dr. Jonn T : 
ing the President of the meeting. . meeting was appointed to 
ceri was elected President for tHat meeting and the ensuing year. 
he contributions to the van ‘ z, in addition to the Address of the 
Tetirin Pidaiden: J. D. Dana eport on the ae of Or- 
ganic Chace, by Dr. Wousors Gras, were as follow 
(1.) Astranom ‘and. Mathematics. 
On oe by Geonretsical: Construction. By Tomas Hitt, of 
Waltham, Mass. 
New ‘Tables for determining the values of those co-efficients of the 
Researches in Analytic se te arte ce i of curves. 
By Bensamin Perrce, Cambridge. 
sean of Adam’s Prize Peobigia for 1857. By Bensamin Peirce, 
mbrid 
The determination of Pm eae by Occultations of the Pleiades. 
By Bensamin Peirce, 
"he Multipliers of Differential Equations. By Bensamin Pernce, 
mbridge. 
The paenaty on the vertical right cone. By Bensamin Perrce, 
Cambridge 
The motion of a Heavy Body on the circumference of a circ 
oe Riles uniformly about a vertical axis. By Bensamin Peirce, 
mbridg 
Racictance to the motion of the Pendulum. By Bensamin PEIRCE, 
. Cambridge 
Cotliribaiions to the Atmospherology of the Sun. By Dr. C. H. P. 
rid 
On the emer of the Planets, and on some of the. conclusions 
resulting from this temperature. By Prof. Ex1as Loomis. 
On the mean distance from the Sun, ficlinanibn of Orbit, and Equa- 
torial characters of the Asteroid Planets. By Prof. SrepHen ALEXANDER. 
On the physical phenomena presented during the Solar Eclipse of 
May 26, 1854, By Prof. STEPHEN ALEXANDER. 
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