278 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
the walls of this wonderful city of the northwest, t q 
Se ia ie a number of excursions, after the adjournment, to 
copper regions of Lake Eaperion: and, more than all, to the 
mountains and the present terminus of the great Pacific 
not less than 1,250 miles from Ching on the path to San Fram 
ciseo, Return tickets were also provided for all who had to pass 
over most of the long routes of 1,000 miles to the Atlantic, Surely — 
the members of the Am merican Association for the Advancement of | q 
them, have good occasion to remember with pleasure the mow — 
ae ‘princely entertainment and magnificent hospitalities of Che 4 
xt meeting of the Association will be held in the we of 
Salem Matasion ts commencing August 18, 1869, under 
Presidency of Col. J. W. Foster, of Chicago. 
The following is a list of the papers read at the meeting: 
1, In GENERAL SESSION. e 
1, On the Application of meneey to the Maintenance of the bias 4q 
the foe Seed and wa ~ er ork to the Excitement of 
Cords voor Threads; JosePH LOVERIN' 
; XN “ 
or American Continent by Maritime People of Distinct Nationalities before 
i. aE 
. Vestiges of Pre-histo toric Races in California; W. i 
. Thé Antiquity of Man in North America; J. W.F D. Warset: 
The Fossil Human Skull of Calaveras County, California} J. 
2. In Suction A. 
Mathematics, rade and Chemistry. 
1. On the Theory of Luminous Hydrocarbon Flames; EUGENE cy ial ae 
2. The Statics _ the Four Types of Modern Chemistry, with § 
3. A New and Sasicat ral Law, determining the Atomic 
x ‘a great number of Carbon nett OIE 
4. The Calculation of the 
: 3 i 
AB,O, or AB,O; Gustavo Hover oe 
Hina” my sio-G eographical Ripliastion of the Tides, ete.; THE 
me Experiments on the “ray of the Spats? Condition eid : 
sonal Fy pee in Transit 0! GERS. Prime af 
ew Formula for the 1 Reducti n of Observations ae the pservations; 
ansiogous to the Formula for the Reduction of Meridian = 
on 
8. emico-Geolo, tals: 7.8 3. Hust. 
gical Relations of the Meta : 
9. be tg of . the Moon upon the Weather; E.ias L00 and is a 
10. The Recent Contributions of Science to the Arts of ‘Dyeing , 
Reset Become JOHN L. : 
Hayes 
teorolites from Mexico and Poland; Louis FavoHTWANGE® 
