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tions of an inch and at the same time determines the power of the micro- 
scope itse 
i Geol logic cal Survey of California.—The Act of the California legis- 
tiers (approved mses 24, 1860) appoints Prof. J. D, Whitney State Ge- 
ologist with a salary of $6000 ot annum. He appoints his own assist- 
ants with the approval of the Governor. Twenty thousand dollars are 
appropriated to the payment wie sepetnes incurred in the survey. The 
provisions of the Act respecting the annual and final Reports are eminently 
judicious, especially that part which directs the Governor and Sevretary 
of State to cause the volumes of the — eo to be sold for the 
benefit = = Common School fund of the Sta 
No state geological survey was ever more gehen inaugurated, 
wisely Seidel for, or fraught with more interesting scientific and practi- 
cal problems. It is understood eos Prof. Whitney will commence his 
She labors in the coming autumn. 
- Total Solar Eclipse of July 18, 1860.—The American Nautical Al- 
wnihe Commission has sent three observers to the mig erland House, 
British Me to wk note of this e cli _ This i a station of the 
6. Newport Meeting of the American Assoc panei 
of Science—The next ‘sheatibg of f the yee tr will be held at eae ’ 
» commencing on Wednesday the first of Augus cers 0 
the meeting are: President, Isaac Lea, Esq. of Philadelphia ; Vice Presi- 
dent, Dr. B. A. Gould of Cambr idge; General Secretary, . Joseph 
LeConte of Colum bia, 8. Ca; Treasurer, Dr. —" Philadelphia 
It will be remembered that Prof. Henry, at thew request la- 
ton, will deliver a. discourse commemorative of the life. rhe scientific 
labo I. LVOBE ARE rof. — will ya rate name ie 
w 
of the wertesition = held. 
1. Letter from John McCrady, Esq., perio on the Lingula pyra- 
_M™mdata tissas by Mr. W. Siimpaon a x, p.444.—Dear SrrMPson : 
_ Tbelieve you are connected with the 'Gadlogial along of pom 8 
! Journal during the absence of Prof. Dana. ou_ have also, I see, 
decribed there our Lingula, long known to naturalists but not before de: 
scribed. It was found more than ten years ago on our coast by the Rev 
. shed 
ae tt the Beaufort species can edly be different from the South Car- 
Olinian 
