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at Boston has been cut down from seventy-seven to 

 five, none of which are from stations west of New 

 England. All the display-stations of the New-Eng- 

 land coast have been closed, with the exception of 

 one kept open by the Boston board of trade. The 

 weather synopses have been discontinued, printing 

 and telegraphing reduced, and salaries cut down. 

 All the West-India stations have been closed ; and 

 thus, with the cyclone season upon us, we are without 

 warnings which the country is abundantly able to 

 provide. The report of the committee was accepted, 

 and its members were requested to serve for another 

 year. 



Mr. J. C. Hoadley then gave an address on driven 

 wells, explaining their action, comparing it with that 

 of dug wells, and giving the results of his experi- 

 mental investigations of the subject. 



A vote of thanks was extended to the retiring sec- 

 retary. Prof. S. W. Holman, and to Mr. Hoadley. 



— At the meeting of the Philosophical society of 

 Washington, May 19, Dr. Robert Fletcher presented 

 a review of Kecent experiments on venom poison, 

 discussing especially the supposed antidote discovered 

 in Brazil, and the separation of rattlesnake poison 

 by Dr. Mitchell into three parts, two of which have 

 definite and distinct toxic properties. 



Mr. Farquhar, whose experiments in binary arith- 

 metic have already been noticed in Science, gave an 

 account of some additional experiments, confirming 

 the conclusion that a binary notation may success- 

 fully compete with a denary for rapidity of arithmetic 

 work, and showing that the ratio between the hori- 

 zontal and vertical dimensions of the binary character 

 has a material influence on facility of computation. 



— A large company assembled in the rooms of the 

 Cincinnati society of natural history on Wednesday 

 evening, May 23, to celebrate the 176th anniversary 

 of the birthday of Carl von Linn^. The lecture-room 

 was beautifully decorated with ferns and natural 

 flowers, and mounted specimens of plants adorned 

 the walls. The name of LinnS in evergreens was 

 placed above a beautiful miniature portrait of the 

 great botanist, the frame of which was wreathed in 

 smilax, while below was an autograph letter lent 

 by a local collector. Three papers were read, on the 

 lite, the botanical and the zoological labors of Lin- 

 n^, by Mr. Davis L. James, Prof. A. P. Morgan, and 

 Prof. Joseph F. James. After the reading, the audi- 

 ence was invited to the council-room, where an in- 

 teresting microscopical soiree was held. 



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