Miscellaneous Intelligence. 817 
with the subject of Evolution ; and Prof. G. F. Barker treating 
of “ gl pest and the Mol électl e.” 
mber of members present was large, and the bie 
of the itivess of Buffalo unbounded. Besides othe 
ments, there was, without expense to the members, an potas 
on Saturday to ge Falls, where a generous lun ch was furn- 
ished them by John Bush at his mansion; and on the 
following Wedienday, over the Chautaaie Lake, to ~ amestown, 
seventy miles, weteman four and five hundred persons went on 
these excursion 
A number of distinguished foreign men of science were present 
—among them Prof. Huxley; Prof. bi ee Dr. J. Lindahl 
‘ E. 
Haarlem; Mr. W. Sagel, of Vienna; . Ke nig, of Paris; and Sig- 
nor Castellani, of Rome. Prof. Huxley was received with a vote 
of one amid much se, 
rs elected for the next meeting of the Association are 
as tows: Prof Srwon Newcoms, President; Prof. Epwarp C. 
? 
Prof. Dine. Wirsox, Chairm rman of the subsection of Fama 
ary ; A urer. 
to meet | in 1877, at Nashville, Tennessee, on the last Wednesday 
ust 
The foll owing is a list of the papers read at the meeting or 
accepted for readin ng. 
I. Physical Section. 
ss — he practicability of cooling the air of buildings during hot weather; 8. 
file on on Ire sitesi ky er 
ant 
nt e cron trem on the oni ’s rou n, C. A. Young 
he , tenella HS. 
; eos produced by the union of two sounds, R. Kant 
i saan veg ~ general principles of construction of poe a and perfect 
D. W. 
"hysies of A Gulf of M G. Fors 
exico and the Mississippi River, C. 
influence on the degrad 22 of soils by a sabe us action, T. McWHORTER 
gra HWEITZER. 
5 <j 4 
ov OP> lan SF EAag 
( 
oe, wsanio 
mlleh remarks on the use and interpretation of particular integrals ae 
by La eas differential equations expressive of dynamic problems, sugges 
P we 8 dynamic theory of the tides, J. @. BARNARD. 4 
Uation of > sana Sn ive temperature, JW ms acon a “of Lquid 
ometers by com id. iments on the gyra 
masses in rotation, id. y comparison, id. Expe 
