296 Scientific Intelligence. 
form, of the Portland Society of Natural History. It contains many 
papers of interest, a plate of coa! plants of the Carboniferous age, and a 
valuable geological map of the northern portions of the state of Maine. 
If the future numbers of the Proceedings are equal to the first, their pub- 
lications will contribute much to the progress of science. 
ost of the papers in Part 1 appear to have been communicated by 
smembers of the Scientific Survey of Maine: and we understand that the 
be deposited in the rooms of the society. The following are the titles of 
of Maine, by G. L. Goodale, Botanist to the Maine Scientific Survey :— 
Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of Maine, compiled by C. HL 
B. F. Fogg, M.D. :—Fossils of the Potsdam Group of North America, by 
C. H. Hitcheock :—Grooved ‘Boulders in Bethel, Maine, by N. T. Troe, 
M.D.:—Description of a new species of Carpolithes from the Miocene 
Tertiary o Vermont, by C. H. Hitchcock. 
present condition of the Crater of Kilauea on the island of 
Hawaii ; es Rev. Tirus Coan.—The a facts on the — con- 
dition of the crater of Kilauea are taken from a ne dna o 
Prof. C. S. Lym 
melted lavas 20 to 50 feet hi h. “ Qeoasienstip it overflows, or vei its 
0 
mit & 
lava is piled up, rising into se A and turrets, © 
as to sys ve in the distance, a cathedral. This i is called Pelé’s Temple. 
elevated by 
upheaving forces, and the eieediesa once the “Black Ledge, " ee — 
portion of the crater. I think the central area is not more than 600 sl 
low the highest point in the outer wall of Kilauea. Near this serine 
portion of the crater rests an irregular and broken ridge of ase 
masses of very compact basalt filled with grains of olivine or chy ae 
7. Arsenids of Copper from Lake Su, —ScHEERER vir 
: rid und Hiittenminnisches Zeitung, xx, p. 152, an account of a pein 
a metallic mineral found as a boulder on the banks of the a 
— near Superior City, iia He found it to contain 86 ee 
_ of copper ane 14 pr. ct. arsenic. On the weathered surfaces it was ng hi 
while fracture fn was yellow, tarnishing and becoming 
on ave to the air. It was considered by several members 
* See this Journal, [2], xxii, 75. 
