| ee on the Taconic ¢ yer the 
fossils in its 
being no reference to pike recent a 
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many things upon which one would wish to reesei and there is 
one little omission. “The observations of Darwin (1861), and 
Asa Gray (1862),” are referred to through the bibliography, but 
without noting that the first did not antici ate, and that the sec- 
nd di ici in thi Jou rnaj, Miiller’s later — 
discovery of the mode of phage of Cypripe ium, in 1868, 
which he dese ries on page 3 The curious modification of the 
ed. A. G. 
Minneapatis. —The eicetina of the t Minn sine : 
der the presidency of Professor C. A. eee of Princeton, 
saed o in Wednesday, August 22d. The number of members _ 
present was lar ree but Pope than re Montreal and Boston, for - 
obvious ‘r reason that the place was less cent: or workers 
Science os were a generously treated by the citizens of 
Minnea eapol is. 
The sections which had the largest number of papers were the 
geological and archeological, an oe geological subject which 
absorbed the most time and attention ese that of the phenom ena 
of the Glacial era and later Quaterna: 
a "The “unsolved a problems” ame teen’ is e cue 8 witho 
much labored or much eo ne beyo 
_ What is contai ined i in pre expression of an opinion. Hor exar 
the best fact on the oo the stated, 
Taconic Range, and their 
SS = containing fossils that are not “u in,” found | 
_ Vermont and in Dutchess germ New York, ¢ a the good f 
i nthe sae Profesor Rows i 
