400 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
gc Samuel F. Clarke of Williams; Treasurer, Professor 
William B. Scott of Princeton; these ait 
exdoutive committee. The object of the society is “the associa- 
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vestigation and wetted laboratory technique and se 
administration, and other topics of interest to investigators an ‘a 
teachers of natural history, and for the adoption of such measures 
as shall tend to the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge 
of ie history in the community.” Membership is limited to 
instructors in natural history, officers of museums and other scien- 
tif institutions, and other persons “sarge oe engaged in some , 
branch of natural history. Meetings are to be held at differ- 
ent_places Sadek ts by the society, not outside of the Rass 
National Acad at Washington in April, Profeisir oO. C. 
‘ , as Vice-President, had been the Acting-President 
since the decease of Professor Wau. B. Rocrrs, was elected - . 
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the office of President. a following persons were elected m 
bers of the Academy : Graham Bell, Dr. John 8. Billings, 
Professor G, K. Gilbert, Spiciones H. B. Hill and Professor C. 
n 
Clausius, DeCandolle, Dumas, Helmholtz, Hooker, Huxley, Kirch- 
hoff, Kélliker, Oppolzer, Pasteur, Richthofen, Sylvester, Stokes, 
Struve, Thomson, Virchow, Wu 
On Thursday, the 19th, the Ac delay participated in the cere- 
monies connected with the pena: of the statue of JosEPH 
ENRY, under the a — of the Smithsonian Institution, at 
eminent physicist. = list of the papers read at the meeting is 
to another number. 
Index to the Pople Science Monthly tor the twenty volumes 
deo 1872 to 1882, and of the three en of the s upPlem ne 
169 pp. 8vo. New York: 1883. (D. Appleton & C —Th 
publishers of the sieliiitiors Popular seiabes Monthly bane done 
its “heat an important service in issuing this one Index. 
Omission.— Contributions to the Geological Chemistry 
lostone National Park, The — on page 351 are by 
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