THE 



CANADIAN 



MTURALIST AND GEOLOGIST. 



• 



Volume IL SEPTEMBER, 1851. Number 4, 



ART. XXIV, — Eleventh Meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Tlie Americau Scientific Congress has just closed its sitting in 

 our good Canadian City of Montreal, effecting a virtual Scientific 

 annexation of American to British American minds, in their action 

 in the wide field of physical and natural science. The Meeting- 

 has been a highly successful one, creditable alike to the assembled 

 science of America, and to the city of Montreal, and we trust will 

 produce lasting good efi"ects, unalloyed by those small jealousies 

 and heartburnings that too often remain after great assemblies of 

 men, wlialever the objects in which they may have been engaged. 



We cannot attempt to present to our readers a full report of the 

 proceedings of the Association. In its more ephemeral form this 

 has been well done by the newspapers, and in its more permanent 

 form it will appear in due time in the proceedings. AYe purpose 

 merely to preserve a record of leading features of scientific pro- 

 gress evidenced in the meeting, and of points especially important 

 to Canada. In doing so Ave shall draw largely on the reports in 

 the Montreal newspapers, especially the IIowW and Gazeite ; re- 



