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3. Geoloyical Survey of the Territories vy the United States.— 
The plan proposed by the Committee of the National Academ =y 
of Sciences for the scientific surveys of se ‘United States Terni 
tories (this Journal, January, 1879, p. 78), was accepted by Con- 
gress, just at the close of the last. Session, (March 9th), so far as 
it relates to the pig oy Survey. The position of Director of 
the Survey ~ been given to Mr. Clarence King, who has drieciaes 
been carried on up to this time tb Lieut. Wheeler, Dr. F. 
hele and Major Powel 
Gold 1 
medal of the society for this year to Professor Asaph Hall of 
the first time sh prize has ome given. The value of the prize is 
7500 frances. 
Prof. J. Lawrence Smith has recently been elected a Correspond- 
emoirs of the po gee of Comparative Zoology. — The 
first art of No. 1, vol. vi, of the Memoirs of the Museum of Com- 
a 
ALDO, peliesee: of the Obse idan of ‘Ha rvard College. 60 
pp. 4to, with 4 plates. es 1879.—A notice of this report 
will be given in another number. 
OBITUARY. 
RANK Hower Brap.ey died, from the falling of a bank in a 
acoochee 
dam sandstone, which till then Kad afforded no animal remains 
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