January 20, 1888. J 



SCIENCE. 



BOOK-NOTES. 



— A valuable article on our oil-fields is 

 contributed to the February number of The 

 Chautaitquan by Charles Ashburner, assist- 

 ant geologist of the Pennsylvania Survey. 



— iVtessrs. Ticknor & Co. announce for im- 

 mediate publication, ' Trinity Church, Boston, 

 Mass.,' Monographs of American Architec- 

 ture, No. v., — a portfolio giving twenty-two 

 gelatine views and one heliochrome, thirteen 

 by sixteen inches, of this celebrated church. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. v^'ill have ready 

 €arly in February next, ' The Vicar of Wake- 

 field,' annotated for the use of schools, in 

 their series of Classics for Children. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 

 Jan. 7. — George F. Becker, The Rounding 

 of Rock-Masses by External Attack ; J. W. 

 Spencer, The Iroquois Beach, a Chapter in the 

 Geological History of Lake Ontario ; Bailey 

 Willis, Determination of Fault Hades. 



Biological Society, Washington. 

 Dec. 2,1, 1887. —W. J. McGee, The Over- 

 lapping Habitats of Starnella magna and S. 

 jieglecta in Iowa ; C. Hart Merriam, Descriplion 

 of a New Field-Mouse from Western Dakota ; 

 W. B. Barrows. The Shape of the Bill in Snail- 

 eating Birds ; H. Justin Roddy, Feeding-Hab- 

 its of Some Young Raptores. 



Anthropological Society, Washington. 



Jan. 3. — H. W. Henshaw, A Linguistic 



Map of the United States, with Explanations ; 



Washington Matthews, A Navajo Shaman's 



Prayer. 



Boston Society of Natural History. 



Jan. 4, 1888. — W. O. Crosby, The Geology 

 of the Outer Islands of Boston Harbor ; James 

 H. Emerton, The Anatomy of the Chrysalis of 

 ihe Milk-Weed Butterfly. 



Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston. 

 Jan. 3, 1S88.— David P. Todd, The Ascent 



S. Davis, Monument to 



of Fuji-san, Japan. 



Jan. II. — Miss L 

 de Saussure. 



Engineers Chtb, St. Louis. 



Dec. 21, Election of Officers. — President, M. 

 L. Holman ; vice-president, J. A. Ockerson ; 

 librarian, J. B. Johnson ; secretary, William H. 

 Bryan ; treasurer, Charles W. Melcher ; direct- 

 ors, William B. Potter and F. E. Nipher. 



Isaac A. Smith, Rapid Railway Embankment 

 Construction. 



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