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— D. C. Heath & Co. have in press, to be 

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Proceedings of Societies. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



April 28. —J. P. Iddmgs, On the Origin of 

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 Peculiarities in Personal Equation ; Cooper 

 Curtice, Cambrian Rocks in Tennessee. 



Boston Society of Natural History. 



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Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, — 

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Briggs, R. Steam Heating: an E.-5position of the 

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Tyrrell, J, B. Report on a Part of Northern Alberta, 

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