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Hence relative thickness is an indication of distance traveled, and 
for the past 10,000 or 15,000 years,” we, one at top is not 
twenty years old, and of short distance of trav 
From such facts Dr. Croll argues that the ice ot the Antarctic 
ice-barrier moved off from a low and even land-surface, and that 
this kind of surface pape 3 the Ga gahiee: continent.” On 
the ground that the moist winds flow in all directions toward the 
south pole, and that the latitudinal eateiit diminishes poleward, it 
is urged that the loss b recipitation on going pe oleward does 
ng t 
oreover the region of the pole should be ever ‘filling 
with ice, however small the precipitat 
Dr. Croll regards the recent Sbservations of Nordenskiéld as. 
confirmatory of his views on Arctic and Antarctic ice-regions. 
2. National Academy of Sciences—At the meeting of the 
poetees held at New Haven, November 13-16, 1883, Professor 
O. C. Marsh, Erecinet, the following papers were presented : 
A, Granam Bett: Upon the Ee es a deaf variety of the human race 
- A. Young, E. S. Hotpen and C. S. Hastines: On the Solar eclipse of May | 
6th, 1883. 
ASAPH pout Notes on the mass of Satur 
H. CHITTENDEN: On some new selaniry cleavage forms of albuminous. 
matter, By ov ation. 
n the use of the dint OF ” in Physics; vin the theory of 
errors of ubdertation and probable re: 
O. RMAN: re regase in the measures of Venus’s diameter as derived 
during transit across the S By in 
1. LOOMI he od sie of barometric observations to sea-level. 
S. 
Ww. iq ns 
H. A. Rowianp: On a new photograph of the Solar Spec 
J. D. Dana: On the stratified drift or terrace form eas oy the New Haven 
g i ls. 
s 
‘ : Preliminary notice of phospho-vanadates, arsenio- Shenker and 
antimonio-vanadates ; On the probable existence of new acids of pho 
B, SinumMan: oo on the mineralogy and lithology of the Bodie “healog Dis- 
ery of eos 
soar On the ancient glaciation of North America. 
+ We POW. y: 
J. : Note’ upon the physical aspects of the higher members of the 
T. Strerry Hunt: The Aetaikie rocks of Lake Superior. 
O, ©. Mars: On the affinities of the eucaatiae Reptiles. 
