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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 420. 



G. A. Miller : ' A new proof of the generalized 

 Wilson's theorem.' 



A pleasant social feature of the meeting 

 was an informal dinner on Monday evening 

 at which about forty persons were present. 



The next meeting of the society will be held 

 in New York on Saturday, February 28. 

 Arrangements are being made for the coming 

 summer meeting and colloquium, to be held 

 in August or September. 



F. ]Sr. Cole, 

 Secretary. 



THE NEW MEXICO ACADEMY OP SCIENCE. 



A JSTew Mexico Academy of Science was 

 formed at Las Vegas, N. M., on December 22. 

 The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: 



President, Frank Springer. 

 Vice-President, Dr. Chas. R. Keyes. 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. W. G. Tight. 

 Members of Executive Committee, T. D. A. Cock- 

 erel], J. D. Tinsley. 



The following papers were read: 



W. G. Tight: 'The Erosion Cycles of the Rio 

 Grande at Albuquerque.' 



E. L. Hewett : ' Notes on the Pecos Indian 

 Tribe.' 



H. N. Hekeick : ' The Gypsum Deposits of New 

 Mexico.' 



J. D. TiNSLET: 'The Work of the Department 

 of Soils and Physics of the New Mexico A. and M. 

 College and Experiment Station.' 



E. L. Hewett : 'An Archeological Reconnais- 

 sance of the Chaco Canon Region.' 



C. E. Magnusson : ' Observations on Soil-mois- 

 ture in New Mexico from the Hygienic View- 

 point.' 



T. D. A. CocKERELL: 'Our Present Knowledge 

 of the Fauna and Flora of New Mexico.' 



John Weinzirl and C. E. Magnusson : ' Fur- 

 ther Contributions to the Study of the Blood 

 Changes Due to Altitude.' 



John Weinzirl: 'The Availability of New 

 Mexico's Climate for Outdoor Life.' (Read by 

 title only.) 



W. G. Tight: 'The History of the Sandia 

 Mountains.' 



T. D. A. Cockerell. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



MARINE ANIMALS IN INTERIOR WATERS. 



The recent accounts of the finding of squid 

 in Lake Onondaga, JSTew Tork, recall two simi- 

 lar instances that were brought to the atten- 

 tion of the U. S. Fish Commission several 

 years ago. 



The commission received for identification 

 from Northern Michigan a specimen of re- 

 mora (Echeneis naucrates) , with the informa- 

 tion that it had been caught by an Indian 

 woman in a trout stream on the southern shore 

 of Lake Superior. There was no reason to 

 doubt the facts from the evidence contained 

 in affidavits which were quickly produced. 

 The true inwardness of this matter has never 

 been cleared up, although it was learned that 

 a New Tork City sportsman had been to this 

 region a short time before and had been in 

 the company of the man who forwarded the 

 specimen. 



By a singular coincidence, which must be 

 of interest to psychologists and telepathists, 

 at the time the Indian squaw was catching a 

 remora in a Michigan river a Washington 

 angler was landing another at the Great Falls 

 of the Potomac, 16 miles above Washington 

 and 60 miles from salt water. This speci- 

 men was brought to the Fish Commission the 

 next day by the man who caught it, and whose 

 ingenuousness there was no reason to doubt. 

 Later, several of his friends called and ex- 

 plained that they had bought the fish in the 

 market and attached it to his line when his 

 attention was diverted. 



On the authority of Professor Hargitt, of 

 Syracuse University, a sargassum fish 

 (Pterophryne histrio), said to have been 

 caught in Onondaga Lake, was exhibited in 

 Syracuse some years ago. H. M. Smith. 



A brilliant meteor. 

 To THE Editor of Science: On the evening 

 of November 15, at 6 :45 central standard 

 time, a very brilliant meteor was observed in 

 its fall to the earth by many persons in the 

 states of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisi- 

 ana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. At 

 once, though at first independently of each 



