Miscellanies. 219 
13. Bones of the extinct gigantic bird of New Zealand, called Moa. 
—A quantity of the bones of the Moa has recently (Feb. 1845) arrived 
in England ; the owner requires £200 sterling for them, which the Col- 
lege of Physicians will not give and it was expected that they would be 
sent to Paris. There is no skull among them, but there is a sternum 
without a keel, “‘as might have been anticipated.” 
Editors’ London Correspondence. 
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14. Sith Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geologists. 
—The sixth annual session of this Association was held at New Haven, 
in Connecticut, on the 30th of April, 1845, and the week next succeed- 
ing; and was adjourned on Tuesday evening, the 6th of May, to meet 
_again in the city of New York, on the 9th of Sept.; 1846, (Wednesday.) 
The sessions were held from 94 A. M. to 1 P. M., and from 24 to 
6 P. M., each day, and the evenings were employed either in session, 
in public lectures, or soirees at private houses. The place of meeting 
was the Geological Lecture-room of Yale College, in the same hall 
with the large cabinet of minerals belonging to the Institution, which 
was found to be a central and agreeable point for the sessions. The 
number of members in attendance during the meeting was small com- 
pared with the crowds which throng the halls of similar bodies in 
Europe; but if compared with the small band of votaries who follow 
subjects of science in this country, the gathering was highly encourag- 
ing, and the impression was general among the members present, that 
the prospects of the Society for future years of extensive usefulness 
were better than on former occasions. An impression has obtained 
currency that the objects of this Asssociation are exclusively geological, 
or directed to those cognate subjects only which have an immediate bear- 
ing on that science. ‘This impression has been confirmed, perhaps, by 
the fact that the published proceedings of the Association, and its 
volume of Transactions, have shown a great predominance of geological 
subjects. A constant effort has been made, on the part of the officers of 
the Association and its individual members, to counteract this impression 
and to throw open its doors widely for all cultivators of science and the 
arts who choose to enter. With this view, its constitution reduces the 
terms of membership to a mere formality of signing that instrument. 
The Association ordered its Secretary to prepare and publish as soon 
as convenient an abstract of the present meeting in a separate form, 
and we await the appearance of this document before saying anything 
more particular of the subjects discussed. The reports, in some re- 
spects improper, which have appeared in the gazettes were unauthor- 
ized by the Association, and they are in no sense responsible for them. 
The next meeting will be held in the month of September, 1846, in 
‘the city of New York. 
