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numerous and include many colored spectra of the elements, others 
uncolored of the sun’s spots, corona, etc., several of comets and 
stars, and many beautiful colored views of the protuberances of 
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and an account of the methods of observations, together with a 
list of the memoirs and works hitherto published on the subject. 
3. Kansas Academy of Science.--This Academy is a State So- 
ciety, and has no special location in the State. A list of the papers 
presented at the annual meetings in 1869 (the second), 1870 and 
1871, is contained in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Depart- 
ment of Public Instruction of the State of Kansas, 1871. The 
papers on the plants of Kansas by J. H. Carruth mention 600 
4. Hunt’s Green Mountain Series.—In my notice of the address 
3 of thi 
on the west. A cor espondent observes that the exceptions are 
larger than is implied in the above expression. In order to give 
are found both to the east-and the west of the Mesozoic valley in 
Connecticut and Massachusetts. They also occupy a considerable 
" freain eastern Vermont, where they are separated from the White 
stern Vermont will be found to belong to the Terranovan 
[White Mountain, as now designated by him] series.” J. D. D. 
: OBITUARY. 
Joo Wm. Baien, of the British Museum, died on the 27th of 
Anuary last. The Standard writes of him:—* In losing Dr. Baird, 
cated at Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris, for the medical profession, 
and served for some years a surgeon in the naval service of 
the late East India Company. His voyages in this capacity gave 
m emple opportunities for the study of his favorite pursuit— 
Zoology. In 1841 he accepted an appointment in the Zoological 
