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U. S. NAVAL advisory board, report of, on mild steel. Washington, 



Government. 216 p. 8°. 

 department. Annual report of the hydrographer to the 



bureau of navigation for the year ending June 30, 1886. 



Washington, Government. 51 p. 8°. 

 U. S. SENATE. Report of the select committee on ordnance and 



war ships, with appendix, Washington, Government. 512 p. 



8°. 

 Whitnkv, W. D. Practical French grammar. New York, Holt. 



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Calendar of Societies. 



Philosophical society, Washington. 



Jan. 15. — G. K. Gilbert, The graphic method in 

 research ; C. D. Walcott, Geologic age of the lowest 

 formation of Emmons's Taconic system: H. A. 

 Hazen, The sky glows of 1883 ; H. A. Hazen, Lunar 

 atmospheric tides. 



Jan. 22. — P. W. Clarke, Present status of miner- 

 alogy; R. T. Hill, The topography and geology of 

 the cross timbers of Texas. 



Chemical society, Washington. 



Jan. 13, election of officers for 1887. — President, 

 Prof. E. I. Fristoe; yice-presidents. Prof. F. W. 

 Clarke and Dr. J. H. Kidder ; treasurer. Prof. Wil- 

 liam H. Seaman ; secretary, Dr. A. C. Peale ; mem- 

 bers at large of executive committee, Mr. Edgar 

 Richards, Prof. H. W. Wiley, Mr. J. S. Diller, Prof. 

 Thomas Robinson. 



W. H. Seaman, Models of molecular structure. 



Biological society, Washington. 

 Jan. 22. — G. Brown Goode, The beginnings of 

 natural history in America : the third century. 



Natural science association, Staten Island. 

 Jan. 8. — Mr. Gratacap, Drift fossils of Staten Is- 

 land ; W. T. Davis, Short account of two interesting 

 insects from the island. 



Torrey botanical club, New York. 



Jan. 11. — Dr. Britton, Curtis's latest fascicle of 

 southern plants; H. H. Reesby, Botanical notes 

 from South America. 



Annual meeting, election of officers. — President, 

 Dr. J. S. Newberry ; vice-president, Thomas Hogg ; 

 treasurer, F. J. H. Merrill; recording secretary, 

 Arthur Hollick; corresponding secretary. Miss H. 

 C. Gaskin ; curator. Miss M. O. Steele; librarian. 

 Dr. N. L. Britton ; editor, Elizabeth G. Britton ; as- 

 sociate editors, F. J. H. Merrill, Jos. Schrenk, H. H. 

 Reesby, C. H. Kain. 



Connecticut academy of arts and sciences. 

 Jan. 19. — J. W. Fewkes, Is the vast mass of 

 oceanic water, between the surface and bottom, bar- 

 ren of life, or occupied by a peculiar fauna? 



New England meteorological society, Boston. 

 Jan. 18. — G. L. Goodale, Some supposed relations 

 between forests and atmospheric ozone ; F. V. Pike 

 Comparisons of rain-gauges at Newburyport; w! 

 M. Davis, Winter temperatures about Mount Wash- 

 ington. 



Society of arts, Boston. 



Jan. 20. —Edward Burgess, The evolution of the 

 modem yacht. 



Society of natural history, Boston. 

 Jan. 19. — J. S. Kingsley, Arthropod development. 



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