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ded a numbers of carriages in which the asso'ciation were taken to view 

 the new park with which it is proposed to encircle Buffalo, the im- 

 provement of which has just commenced. 



As an evidence of the general interest felt in the proceedings it 

 may be mentioned that at least seven sermons were preached in the 

 city on Sunday on topics more or leks directly suggested by the con- 

 vention. In justice to them it must be said that they mostly evinced 

 a generous and catholic spirit on those points in which theology and 

 science are supposed to differ. 



We cannot close this brief sketch of a meeting which must be re- 

 membered with pleasure by all who attended, without alluding to the 

 presence of Prof. Henry whose venerable form during latter years has 

 often been absent. It was especially fitting he should be present on this 

 occasion occupying as he does a central place in the progress of Amer- 

 ican science. — W. H. S. 



FIELD RECORD. 



Shell Heaps of Delaware. — Reading the interesting paper on 

 the "Shell Heaps of Maryland," in the August number of Field and 

 Forest, recalls some Shell Heaps of Sussex county Delaware, which I 

 in company with others, explored about two years ago. During a 

 fishing and collecting excursion to "Delaware Breakwater" in July 

 1874, a small party of visited Rehoboth, near a small bay of that name, 

 on the shore of the Atlantic, about seven miles from Lewistown, pop- 

 ularly called "Lewes." There are two Hotels at Rehoboth, one of 

 which is kept by Captain Lewis Tradenic, formerly a citizen of Lan- 

 caster County. Somewhat differing from the character of the land usu- 

 ally found along the coast, it is here arable and is cultivated to within 

 a hundred yards of the beach. The soil is a sandy clay, and the beach 

 •is bounded by an abrupt bank, somewhat higher than the land a hun- 

 dred yards inland. In sloping a lawn from the Hotel to the beach, 

 a number of Shell Heaps were discovered, barely visible on the sur- 

 face but midening towards the base as the soil was was removed, and 

 in exploring these we found several species of shells, mainly Ostrea, 

 Venus, Mactra &c. 



