1881.] ^^'^ 



Society of Japan ; the Academies at St. Petersburg, Berlin, 

 Rome and Philadelphia; the Bureau of Statistics of Sweden ; 

 the Zoologischer Anzeiger; Frankfurt Geographical and 

 Statistical Association; Bordeaux Commercial Geographi- 

 cal Society ; MM. Delesse and Lapparent, and Revue Poli- 

 tique of Paris ; British Association, Royal Astronomical 

 Society, Chemists' Journal and ISTature ; ISTova Scotia Insti- 

 tute, Canadian Naturalist, Prof. Ed. C. Pickering, Hon. 

 Robert C. Winthrop ; the Middletown Scientilic Associa- 

 tion; the American Journal of Science; Mr. C. B.Dudley; 

 Mr. H. C. Lewis ; the Second Geological Survey of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and the Johns Hopkins University. 



A box of Indian flints for the cabinet sent from Chicques, 

 Lancaster County, Pa., by Mrs. Haldeman, was reported in 

 the care of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



RhcEtic flora. The Secretary reported that he had received 

 letters from Prof. W. M. Fontaine, of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, dated Charlottesville, February 21st and March 29th, 

 respecting the publication in the Transactions of a Memoir 

 on the Rhsetic flora, and on the formation to which they be- 

 long, in Virginia and North Carolina; about 340 pp. MS. 

 with 32 4to plates, the figures closely placed, and nearly all 

 in outline, with only indispensable details. 



Besides the descriptions of plants, the author gives " a 

 pretty full account of the geology of the Mesozoic of Virginia, 

 with an explanation of its peculiar features." He has "a very 

 large collection of fine plants. Many of them are new, some 

 exceedingly fine ; and all of them, whether already de- 

 scribed or as yet undescribed, much more perfect than any 

 hitherto found." " The collection is a pretty fair representa- 

 tion of the flora of the older Mesozoic, and will throw light 

 on the Mesozoic of North Carolina and Pennsylvania." 



Saliville fault. The Secretary communicated the following 

 notes by Prof. Fontaine, made in the same letters, upon the 

 views of Mr. H. C. Lewis respecting the structure of the 

 Saltville valley in Southern Virginia, published in the Pro- 

 ceedings No. 107, page 155. 



