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able richness and that the whole area around 
the San Juan river is extremely rich in aurifer- 
ous deposits. The paper was discussed by Mr. 
Nicholas, who reiterated his statements that 
the gold-bearing clay deposits are not as exten- 
sive as they at first may seem to be, and that 
they are isolated to a few small localities now 
being dissected and drained by small streams. 
RICHARD EH. DopGE, 
Secretary. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORK SECTION 
OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
THE annual meeting of the New York Section 
of the American Chemical Society was held at 
the College of the City of New York on Friday 
evening, October 15th, Dr. William McMurtrie 
presiding and fifty-two members present. The 
result of the election of officers for the ensuing 
year was as follows: Dr. William McMurtrie, 
Chairman; Dr. Durand Woodman, Secretary 
and Treasurer; Drs. C. A. Doremus, A. C. 
Hale and A. A. Breneman, Executive Com- 
mittee; Dr. McMurtrie, C. F. McKenna and 
Marston T. Bogert, Delegates to the Scientific 
Alliance of New York. 
Brief remarks were made by the Chairman on 
the death of Dr. M. Alsberg, one of the eight 
original founders of the Society, and an obituary 
notice by Dr. H. Endemann was read by the 
Secretary. 
A paper was read by Professor P. C. Mcll- 
hiney on ‘Some Experiments on Thermo-elec- 
tric Pyrometry,’ in which a very expensive 
form of electric pyrometer was described and 
directions given for its arrangement. 
Murtrie made an address on ‘ Recent Progress 
in Industrial Chemistry,’ after which a vote of 
thanks was unanimously passed to the Chair- 
man for his faithful and energetic efforts during 
the year to make the meetings interesting and 
successrul. 
DURAND WoopMAN, 
Secretary. 
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. LOUIS. 
Av the meeting of the Academy of Science 
of St. Louis, held on the evening of October 
18, 1897, the Secretary presented in abstract a 
paper by Frank Collins Baker, entitled ‘The 
SCIENCE. 
Dr. Me-° 
[N.S. Vou. VI. No. 148 
Molluscan Fauna of Western New York,’ deal- 
ing with specimens collected by the author be- 
tween July 5 and July 29, 1897, and based on 
some 1,500 specimens, representing 75 species, 
and giving exact data concerning weather, tem- 
perature and altitude for each station in 19 
different localities visited. The paper enumer- 
ates 146 species and 10 varieties, including 
those previously recorded for the section with 
which it deals. The lingual dentition of By- 
thinia tentaculata is described and figured, and 
several species have been subjected to critical 
review. 
Professor H. A. Runicke made some informal 
remarks on recent progress in our knowledge 
of the constitution of steel, with reference both 
to its microscopy and chemistry. 
WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
Recording Secretary. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Sleep ; Its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene and 
Psychology. MARIE DE MANACHINE. Lon- 
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Scribner’s Sons. 1897. Pp. vii+ 341. $1.25. 
Elements of Comparative Zoology. J. S. Kines- 
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Children’s Ways. JAMES SuLLY. New York, 
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The Living Substance as Such, and as Organ- 
GWENDOLEN FOULKE ANDREWS. Bos- 
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and Invisible. SinvANus P. 
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Ordinary Differential Equations. JAMES Morris 
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Light, Visible 
THOMPSON. 
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Pace. New York and London, The Mac- 
millan Company. 1897. Pp. xviii+ 226, 
$1.25. 
A Text-Book of Special Pathological Anatomy. 
Ernst ZIEGLER. Translated and edited 
from the eighth German edition by Donald 
MacAlister and Henry W. Cattell. Sections 
IX.-XV. New York and London, The 
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