Miscellanies, 391 



on the platform accompanied them, walking along on the side of the 

 cavern. A great cavern it literally is, and all the rock that has been 

 blasted out is used as a flux for iron ore, and has been and is worth 

 more than the richest mine in England. When they reached the 

 end of the gallery Mr. Murchison gave a lecture, and the marquis of 

 Northumberland (query — Northampton ?) made an address. At a sig- 

 nal given, blue lights were kindled behind the columns of stone, left 

 for the support of the mine, when suddenly all the cavern for a 

 length as far as the eye could see, was illuminated, and repeated dis- 

 charges of cannon at the entrance of the tunnel were reverberated in 

 deafening echoes. Then came red lights alternating with the blue, 

 thousands of persons manifesting their delight by cheering and clap- 

 ping, and all united in the national hymn, God save the Queen. The 

 party then returned to the mouth of the cave where they had landed 

 and having formed a circle round an eminence. Dr. Buckland gave an 

 interesting lecture of an hour, and after an excursion of a mile, Mr. 

 Murchison, gave another. 



59. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, from 

 September I9th, 1838, to March 2lst, 1839- Compiled from the Re- 

 cords of the Society, by Jeffries Wyman, M. D., Recording Sec- 

 retary. 



In accordance with the intention of the Society, as explained in a 

 preceding number of the Journal, the following contribution of the 

 proceedings of the Society has been drawn up by its direction. It is 

 proper to slate that the original record was made by the late secretary, 

 Dr. A. A. Gould. 



Sept.XQ, 1838. — Dr. J. B. S. Jackson, in the chair. 



Dr. T. W. Harris exhibited and presented for the herbarium, spe- 

 cimens of the following plants ; Liatris scariosa from Exeter, N. H. ; 

 which had also been found by Mr. Tuckerman in Cambridge — Sabba- 

 tia chloroides, with a white variety, growing on the clean sand, on 

 borders of ponds in Plymouth, not on salt bogs as stated by Beck' — 

 Drosera tenuifolia, Utricularia purpurea, and U. resupinata, all from 

 Plymouth. 



Mr. G. B. Emerson had also found the three species of Drosera 

 growing together at Plymouth, and also four species of Utricularia. 



Mr. E. had lately visited the Saddleback Mt., which he strongly 

 recommended to the notice of every lover of nature. He exhibited 

 specimens of Taxus Canadensis and Pinus Fraseri from this lo- 

 cality. 



Dr. Storer had recently met with two rare fishes, and had been 

 able to determine them satisfactorily. One of them, commonly called 



