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SCIENCE. 



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'Thallene,' isolated from petroleum residues 

 some years ago by Dr. Morton. 



Another adjournment to Dr. Morton's house, 

 ■where the meeting was brought to a close with 

 an informal reception. 



The members present were united in their 



appreciation of Dr. Morton's hospitality, and 



the meeting must be recorded as one of the 



most enjoyable held by the New York Section. 



DuBAND Woodman, 



Secretary. 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



A GENERAL meeting was held Wednesday, 

 December 2d, forty-eight persons present. The 

 evening was devoted to a commemoration of 

 the life and services of Thomas Tracy Bouv6, 

 who had died on June 3, 1896. 



Dr. James C. White read a letter from Mr. 

 Charles J. Sprague, recalling some of the promi- 

 nent characteristics of Mr. Bouve as a man, and 

 of his business abilities and scientific attain- 

 ments. Dr. White then read an appreciative 

 review of Mr. Bouve's long and important ser- 

 vices to the Society and to science. Prof. Al- 

 pheus Hyatt spoke of Mr. Bouv6's work in the 

 Society since 1870, and Prof. W. O. Crosby gave 

 an account of Mr. Bouv6's contributions to 

 scientific literature, and of his work in connec- 

 tion with the Society's collections of minerals, 

 rocks and fossils. 



A letter from Prof. James Hall, reminiscent 

 of the early days of the Society and of the ser- 

 vices rendered to science by Mr. Bouve and sev- 

 eral of his associates, was read ; also letters from 

 Profs. Goodale and Putnam. 



Samuel Henshaw, 



Secretary. 



THE ALABAMA INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular winter meeting of the Society 

 was held in the city of Birmingham on Tuesday, 

 December 15, 1896. Mr. Fred. M. Jackson, 

 President of the Society, was in the chair, and ten 

 members were jsresent. A committee appointed 

 at the last meeting to arrange for the collection, 

 monthly, of statistics of the iron ores, coal, coke, 

 limestone and other mineral resources and 

 products of the State, reported by recommending 

 a plan by which the collection of these statis- 



tics would be undertaken by Mr. W. M. Brewer, 

 under the auspices of the Society and of the 

 State Geological Survey. The plan recom- 

 mended by the committee was adopted, and it 

 is the intention to prepare monthly tables of 

 statistics, to be furnished to such of the technical 

 journals as may wish to publish them, and to 

 be kept on file in the offices of the Secretary of 

 the Society and of the State Geologist. 



Two papers were presented, viz.: On Gold 

 Milling in Clay County, Alabama, in the Idaho 

 district, by Joshua Franklin, and on the Man- 

 ganese Deposits of Georgia, by Wm. M. Brewer. 



Mr Franklin gave the details of his recent 

 experience in treating with profit the low-grade 

 gold ores of Clay County with a Huntington 

 mill, shaking coppers, blanket sluices and 

 amalgam traps. The paper of Mr. Brewer was 

 read by title only, being delayed in the mail. 



After the reading of the papers there followed 

 an instructive discussion of the subject of coke- 

 making. Dr. Phillips, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Erskine 

 Eamsay, Col. A. J. Montgomery and others 

 taking part therein. The great importance of 

 the recovery of the by-products of the coking 

 ovens was particularly dwelt upon. This sub- 

 ject has often been discussed at previous meet- 

 ings, and a number of experiments have been 

 made at several points near Birmingham with a 

 view to utilizing some, at least, of these now 

 generally wasted products. 



The next meeting, at which the officers for 

 the ensuing year will be elected, will be held 

 some time about the beginning of the summer 

 months. Eugene A. Smith, 



Secretary. 



NEW BOOKS. 



Habit and Instinct. C. Lloyd Morgan. Ed- 

 win Arnold, London and New York. 1896. 

 Pp. 351. 



Outlines of Psychology. Wilhelm Wundt. 

 Translated by Charles Hubbard Judd. Leip- 

 zig, Wilhelm Engelmann. Pp. xviii-f-342. 



Outlines of Electricity and Magnetism. Charles 

 A. Perkins. New York, Henry Holt & Co. 

 1896. Pp. viii+272. 



Star Atlas. Winslow Upton. Boston and Lon- 

 don, Ginn & Co. 1896. Pp. iv+29 and 

 plates. 



