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2. American Association. —The Phi iadelphia ane of the 
merican Association commences its session on the 3d of ep- 
tember, under ais ‘ptesiden cy of Professor J. P. Lestey. The 
vice-presidents of the sections are: A, Mathematics and Astron- 
omy, H. T. Eppy, of Cincinnati; B, Physics, Joun TROWBRIDGE, 
of Cambridge ; °C. Jie Joun W. Laxaey, Aon n Arbor; 
D, Mechanical Science, R. H. Taurston, of Hoboken; E, ow 
and Ceouraphy, N, i. Waa. of Msineapolis iology, 
D. Corr, of Philadelphia; F, Histology and Microscopy, ‘3 
irae: of Philadelphia ; HL, Anthropology, E. 8. Morsz, of 
Salem ; ) F Economic Science. and Statistics, J. Earon, of Wash- 
ton. 
he Permanent Secretary of the association is stash F. W. 
Purnam, of Cambridge; the General Secretary, ALFR p SPRINGER, 
_ of Cincinnati; the Assistant General Secretary, E. 8. HotpEn, of 
Madison ; the Treasurer, Witiram Linty, of Mauch Chunk. 
3. Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnot- 
ogy of plasty te Mass., 16th and 17th Annual Reports. Cam- 
ridge, 4.—American Archeology is making rapid 
through het labors of Professor Putnam and the work ‘tie publi- 
Cations connected with the Harvard Peabody Museum. The 
volume issued contains various original papers besides the report 
of the curator. A few facts are here cited from it: 
(1) The meteoric iron ‘*found on the altar of mound No. 3, of 
the Turner group of earthworks in the Little Miami valley, Ohio, 
has been analyzed by Dr. L. P. Kinnicutt. One piece was found 
to have G.=6-42, and to consist of Iron 86°66, nickel 12°67, 
cobalt 0°33, copper J ‘ace, insoluble residue 0°10 ; the second speci- 
men, to ha ave we il nd to consist of Iron 88° 37, mike 10°90, 
— bron polished piece o gave well-marked 
Widmanstattian figures, and the second appeared to be of the 
Same charac he other r Specimens were similar, in containing: 
game Y 
era proving ‘that all the iron sation the mound was of meteoric 
eSuntkes mass of iron weighing 767°5 grams, from the altar in 
mound neh: 4, of the same group, contained large concretions 0 
