208 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Yale College, New Haven, August, 1860. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC IN TELLIGENCE., 
1. The Fourteenth Meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement O ienc 
Island, in the old State House, dating from the Colonial times under 
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eed an address of welcome from the city of Newport, to the members of 
the Association. The general enjoyment of the occasion was amp" 
cured by the kind and abundant hospitality of the city and its citizens, 
graphitic anthracite of these most overdone and contorted coal measures 
a fruitful theme of discussion both in hall and field. ~ 
The numbers in attendance at the Newport meeting were small com- 
pared with most previous meetings. An erroneous impression appeals 
unfortunately to have gone abroad that Newport was a very costly place 
to visit and that the ‘ height of the season’ at a great watering place we 
not a time when science could hold ground against fashion. agate 
this was eminently untrue, the effect of such an impression was visible m 
the absence of numbers of familiar faces. 
Neither can we, if we would, conceal the fact that while many papers of 
marked ability were presented, the character of this meeting was me 
all respects creditable to American Science. 
among many who were present at Newport of a decadence 10 the scl 
united public sentiment which bore rule with a righteous severity: 
evidence of this power was wanting at Newport—signs 
One of the bright points of the Newport meeting was the opportun’ 
return of the Labrador Astronomical Expedition, sent out peri 
* Furnished gratuitously to all members by the City Government. 
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