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time. Contemplation of such magnificent works of nature cannot fail to make 

 men desire more knowledge, and to awaken in them a spirit of research into still 

 more profound labyrinths. The closing scene then began, the m.ighty cloud-bank 

 drew nearer the sun, and finally put out its light at gh. 5m., hiding from our eyes 

 the glorious view forever, as another transit will not occur until June 8th, 2004. 

 An appalling storm raged for thirty hours, the thermometer reaching a depression 

 of 13°- below zero. We append a table of results as deduced at this observa- 

 tory: 



Results. Civil Time, Dec. 6th, 1882 



h. m. s. 



Mean local time of contact I 8 i 41 



Time of transit across solar limb 20 39 



Mean local time of contact II..,. 8 22 20 



Mean Washington time of contact I 8 55 34 



Mean Washington time of contact II 9 16 13 



Astronomical time of contact I., New Windsor, Dec. 5th, 1882 20 i 41 



Astronomical time of contact I., Washington, Dec. 5th, 1882 . 20 55 34 



Longitude of New Windsor (West) — 53 53 



Probable error — — 23 



Latitude of New Windsor, 41°, 13'. 



December 20th, 1882. 



ARCHAEOLOGY. 



THE KITCHEN MIDDINGS OF MAINE. 



PROF. F. W. PUTNAM. 



During the months of November and December, 1882, Professor Putnam, 

 Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, delivered a series of five lect- 

 ures on "American Archaeology" at Cambridge, Mass. These lectures were 

 partly in the nature of a report to the subscribers to the fund for such researches 

 of his explorations during the past summer, and partly to arouse among others 

 an interest in the subject by describing the methods pursued in systematic explo- 

 rations, and by exhibiting the results. 



We copy from the Boston Transcript a report of the first lecture of the 

 course, having the above title. — [Ed. Review. 



"The specimens on the table before you may seem insignificant, 

 and some of them you may even look upon as ' scientific dirt,' but they will serve to 

 show you the material of which shell heaps are composed. But first, I will an- 

 swer a question which has probably occurred to many of you, and that is, 'What 



