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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 19. 



3. Northwestern Atlantic or Virginian, 

 witli a Caribbean-Mexican sub-region 



4. Southwestern Atlantic or Brazilian. 



5. Boreal Pacific or Aleutian. 



6. Eastern Pacific or Galapagean. 



7. Northwestern Pacific or Japanese. 

 S. Polynesian. 



9. Zealandian. 



10. Antarctic. 



11. Indian. 



M. B. "Waite, 

 Recording Secretary. 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



The annual meeting was held on Wed- 

 nesday, May 1st. 



A paper was read by Mr. J. L. Tilton 

 On the Geology of the Southivestern part of the 

 Bodon Basin. 



Eeports of the officers were received and 

 officers for 1895-6 were elected as follows : 



President, "William H. Niles. 



Vice-Presidents, Nathaniel S. Shaler, "Wil- 

 liam G. Farlow, Charles P. Bowditch. 



Curator, Alpheus Hyatt. 



Secretary, Samuel Henshaw. 



Treasurer, Edward T. Bouve. 



Librarian, Samuel Henshaw. 



Councillors for Three Years, Hermon C. 

 Bumpus, Charles B. Davenport, "William A. 

 Jeifries, George G. Kennedy, Augustus 

 Lowell, Miss Susannah Minns, Thomas A. 

 "Watson, Samuel "Wells. 



Samuel Henshaw, 



Secreta7-y. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 

 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, MAY. 



James Dtvight Dana. 



Color Relations of Atoms, Ions and Molecules : 



By M. C. Lea. 

 Further Notes on the Gold Ores of California : 



By H. "W. Turner. 

 Some Relations betiveen Temperature, Pressure 



and Latent Heat of Vaporization ; By C. E. 



LiNEBARGER. 



Double Halides of Civsium, Rubidium, Sodium 

 and Lithium with Thallium: By J. H. Pratt. 



Argon, Proufs Hypothesis, and the Periodic 

 Law: By E. A. Hill. 



Improved Rock Cutter and Trimmer : By E. 

 Kid WELL. 



Relation of the plane of Jupiterls orbit to the 

 mean-plane of four hundred and one minor 

 planet orbits : By H. A. Newton. 



Chemistry and Physics; Geology; 3Iiscellane- 

 ous Scientific Intelligence ; Obituary. 



bulletin of the torrey botanical club, 



APRIL. 



Notes on Some Florida Plants: Geo. V. Nash. 



John H. Redfield: "Wm. M. Canby. 



A Fossil Marine Diatomaceous Deposit at St. 

 Augustine, Florida : Charles S. Boyer. 



Neio Species of Parastic Fungi : S. M. Tracy 

 and F. S. Earle. 



The Systematic Botany of North America ; Bo- 

 tanical Notes ; Proceedings of the Club ; In- 

 dex to Recent Literature Relating to Ameri- 

 can Botany. 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, MAY. 



On the Tu'o Isomeric Chlorides of Orthosulpho- 

 benzoic Acid : Ira Eemsen. 



/. The Action of Aniline and of the Tolui- 

 dineson Orthosidphobenzoic Acid and its Chlo- 

 ride : Ira Eemsen and C. E. Coates, Jr. 



II. Further Study of the Action of Aniline 

 on the CJdorides of Orthosidphobenzoic Acid : 

 Iea Eemsen and E. P. Kohlee. 



III. Separation of the Two Chlorides of 

 Orthosidphobenzoic Acid : Iea Eemsen and 

 A. P. Saunders. 



The Sugar of the Agave Americana: "W^. E. 



Stone and D. Lotz. 

 The Laiv of Mass Action : J. E. Trevor. 

 Chromates of the Rare FartJis : Chromates oj 



Thorium : Chase Palmee. 

 On a New Method for the Separation of Copper 



and Cadmium in Qualitative Analysis : Al- 



LEETON S. CUSHMAN. 



Reviews. 



