78 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
in the nomenclature of species, consisting, for paleontology, of 
Cotteau, Douvillé, Gaudry, Pomel, Gosselet and d 
biological ope edit presented by Cope to the Congress, was 
referred to the above-named committee. The general language of 
in English were interprete . Barrois and T. Sterry Hunt, 
and will be duly translated for the published acts of the Congress. — 
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2. National Academy of Sciences.—At the session of the Na 
tional Academy of Sciences in New York City, November 5-8, 
1878, the following papers were presented. 
Henry Draper.—the Solar Eclipse of aay 29, 1878. 
8. H. ScupprrR.—The early types of inse 
C. 8. Perrce.—tThe acceleration of gravity at initial stations 
W. P. TrowsBripGe.—The inapplicability of the old ——. of a turbine water- 
wheel to the newer peneneenns | instituted by Boyden & Fr 
A. The embryology of the gar-pike. “0. ) pee ofa 
zoological marine iabbratory. at Newpo 
E 1s.—Contributions to Meteor logy: the storms of the Atlantic Ocean. — 
H. L. Assort.—(1.) Biographical me shoe of Prof. D. H. Mahan.—(2.) Value of — 
photography | in the study of instantaneous phenomena, illustrated by Oy ahoteeall : 
torpedo explosions. : 
JAMIN ALVORD.—Continuation of paper cAstiost & at the April meeting, On — 
the intersection of circles and the intersection of s sphe 
STEPHEN a On the eleventh axiom 2 of Euclid and a proposed — 
demonstration of the ) "s views on the — 
origin of the forms poe presen nt state of many clusters of stars and of several % 
e 0 so : 
J.S.N 
to living forms — ai ) On some mooted p n American Geol 
O. N. Roop.—({1.) On a ‘naiititative’ aivtis of white light. hE _(2.) Note on 
Henry’s inert of color. 
E. D. Copz.—On the characters of the Theromorphous Reptilia and Stegocephi — 
i Batrachia 
(, B-Mepinres of the diameter of Mercury by a new method, made ab 
the transit vs May 6 ‘ be 
. Hyatr me r seis on an ci, on the laws of heridity under 
taken by the Board of Health of Massachus 
t the same session on November 6, the Acting President sw 
oidich the following Report of the Committee appointed to coW 
sider the Scientific Surveys of the Territories of the United States 
The Committee of the National ‘Abadann of Sciences, to whon 
has been referred the consideration of the following requirement 
of law contained in the Act making appropriations for pee 
f or the fiscal ye 
na ely: 
“And the National Academy of Sciences is hereby ee at 
their next meeting to take into consideration the methods and 
