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Gievtlend Abbe, 3. W. Gibbs, W. G 
498 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
people i met eress corals and coral git ae habits and 
ature of some of the stranger animals and plants of the sea and 
land, and on Selcgieal: anthropological and te topics; and 
they are presented in the direct one jet style that bespeaks the 
faithful scientific observer. e author is an able naturalist, and 
has published many very valu les sae (partly in the Transac- 
tions of the et es Society) as the results of antl y ork during 
ae cruise and of thoro sins microscopic investigations since, relat- 
to the an of Mille epores, the Aleyonarian relations and 
structure of He eliopora cerulea, the structure of the Stylasteridae, 
on Cor Actinaria, Planariw, and other zoological subjects, 
berg Biceariical notes in the J ip i of ee = innzan Societ 
. Report of the National Academy of Sciences.—At the meet- 
bi “of the National Academy of Selanoes held 3 in bilrserie, ins 
April cs to 19th, 1879, the following papers were rea 
C. zoe. —Ghosts in the diffraction spectra ; Jonpeniaee of the meter with 
wave ‘engin; he errors of pendulum experiments, and on the method of 
swinging so Rai proposed by Mr. Faye; On projeitioke of ‘the sphere which 
preserve the angles. 
Henry Draper.—Confirmations by spectrum photographs of the discovery of 
“ye in > sun, 
E. C. PickreRIne.—On the eclipses of Jupiter’s satellites; On two new forms of 
ALFRED M. Mayrer.—On a new form of helios 
. EK. Hime@arp. Ppa on the ares of the Somausniel bureau of weights 
and measures; An account of geodetic acts determined by the Coast Survey in 
aon 
Sm1on NEwcoms.—On the recurrence of solar eclipses. 
. A. NEwron.—On the suiduente of Jupiter upon bodies —e near that planet. 
8. Weir MircHELL.—On the relations of neuralgic pains to storms and the 
earth’s magnetism 
C. F, Cuanp new polarincas method for the detection and estima- 
tion of prone gg al in the prese: f£ cane sugar and inverted sugars. ; 
H. L. AB the ignition ‘of high te tension fuses. 
EL firings The winds on Mount Washington compared with the winds 
near the level of the sea. 
E. W. Hinrearp.—The loess of the Mississippi, and the olian hypothesis. 
JOSEPH Le Conte. —-The extinct volcanoes about Lake Mono and their relation 
to our glacial 
J. 8. NewBerry.—On the great silver deposits recently discovered in Colorado, 
Utah, and Nevada. 
- J. BrusH.—On a mineral locality in Fairfield County, Connecticut. 
A. Agassiz.—Report on ag ag in the Caribbean Sea by the Coast Survey 
steamer Blake, Commander John R. Bartlett, United States Navy. 
C. V. Rruzy.—On the irae and migrations of Aletia —— (the par- 
ent of the cotton-worm 
8. H. ScuppEeR.—The Palzozoie cockroaches. 
Be Seo the extinct species of the Rhinoceros and allied forms of 
i econ the physical hydrography of the Gulf of — 
I 
G. K. Giipert.—On the stability and instability of drainage 
A. Granam Bett.—On vo Meir Gist ton Ghtiecn a te Teta ot peeer gees 
“Professor William B. Rogers was elected Boson in plasl of 
The following new members were elected : 
arlow, H. C. Wood. 
