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  The 
  president 
  announced 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Professor 
  James 
  D. 
  Dana, 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Academy, 
  and 
  appointed 
  

   Dr. 
  E. 
  S. 
  Dana 
  to 
  prepare 
  the 
  biographical 
  memoir. 
  The 
  presi- 
  

   dent 
  also 
  appointed 
  a 
  special 
  committee 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  Academy 
  

   at 
  the 
  funeral. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  papers 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  

  

  A. 
  Agassiz 
  and 
  W. 
  McM. 
  "Woodworth 
  : 
  On 
  some 
  variations 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  

   Eu 
  cope. 
  

  

  A. 
  Agassiz: 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Florida 
  Reef. 
  The 
  progress 
  of 
  the 
  publications 
  on 
  

   the 
  expedition 
  of 
  1891 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  Steamer 
  " 
  Albatross," 
  Lieut. 
  

   Commander 
  Z. 
  L. 
  Tanner, 
  commauding. 
  

  

  M. 
  P. 
  RAVBNEL 
  : 
  On 
  soil 
  bacteria. 
  

  

  A. 
  M. 
  Mayer: 
  A 
  linkage 
  showing 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  the 
  refraction 
  of 
  light. 
  

   M. 
  Carey 
  Lea 
  : 
  On 
  the 
  color 
  relations 
  of 
  atoms, 
  ions 
  and 
  molecules. 
  

  

  R. 
  S. 
  Woodward: 
  Mechanical 
  interpretation 
  of 
  the 
  variations 
  of 
  latitude. 
  

  

  S. 
  C. 
  Chandler: 
  On 
  a 
  new 
  determination 
  of 
  the 
  nutation-constant, 
  and 
  some 
  

   allied 
  topics. 
  

  

  L. 
  A. 
  Bauer: 
  On 
  the 
  secular 
  motion 
  of 
  a 
  free 
  magnetic 
  needle. 
  

  

  J. 
  S. 
  Billings: 
  On 
  the 
  composition 
  of 
  expired 
  air, 
  and 
  its 
  effect 
  upon 
  animal 
  

   life. 
  

  

  Th. 
  Gill: 
  Systematic 
  catalogue 
  of 
  F]uropean 
  fishes. 
  

  

  E. 
  D. 
  Cope: 
  The 
  extinct 
  Cetacea 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  G. 
  Brown 
  Goode 
  : 
  On 
  the 
  application 
  of 
  a 
  percentage 
  method 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   the 
  distribution 
  of 
  oceanic 
  fishes; 
  (A.) 
  Definition 
  of 
  eleven 
  faunas 
  and 
  two 
  sub- 
  

   faunas 
  of 
  Deep 
  Sea 
  fishes 
  ; 
  (B.) 
  The 
  relationships 
  and 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  Carribeo- 
  

   Mexican 
  and 
  Mediterranean 
  sub-faunas. 
  

  

  Ira 
  Remsen: 
  On 
  the 
  two 
  isomeric 
  chlorides 
  of 
  ortho-sulpho-benzoic 
  acid. 
  On 
  

   some 
  compounds 
  containing 
  two 
  halogen 
  atoms 
  in 
  combination 
  with 
  nitrogen. 
  

  

  B. 
  A. 
  Gould: 
  Biographical 
  memoir 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Lewis 
  M. 
  Rutherfurd. 
  

  

  H. 
  A. 
  Newton: 
  Relation 
  of 
  Jupiter's 
  orbit 
  to 
  the 
  mean 
  plane 
  of 
  four 
  hundred 
  

   and 
  one 
  minor 
  planet 
  orbits. 
  Orbit 
  of 
  Miss 
  Mitchell's 
  comet, 
  1847 
  VI. 
  

  

  2. 
  Pencils 
  Morphologie 
  der 
  Erdoberflache.*- 
  Professor 
  Pence. 
  

   has 
  added 
  in 
  his 
  Morphologie 
  der 
  Erdoberfla' 
  e 
  another 
  notable 
  

   number 
  to 
  Ratzel's 
  series 
  of 
  geographical 
  h" 
  abooks. 
  The 
  num- 
  

   bers 
  already 
  issued 
  include 
  Ratzel's 
  Anthropogeographie, 
  Hann's 
  

   Klimatologie, 
  Boguslawski 
  and 
  Krummel's 
  Ozeanographie, 
  and 
  

   Heim's 
  Gletscherkunde 
  ; 
  all 
  standard 
  works 
  on 
  their 
  respective 
  

   subjects. 
  Penck's 
  contribution 
  is 
  fully 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  high 
  quality 
  of 
  

   its 
  predecessors. 
  

  

  The 
  plan 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  work 
  may 
  be 
  fairly 
  inferred 
  from 
  an 
  

   abstract 
  of 
  its 
  table 
  of 
  contents, 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  The 
  form 
  and 
  size 
  

   of 
  the 
  earth 
  ; 
  area 
  of 
  land 
  and 
  water, 
  mean 
  altitude 
  of 
  lands 
  and 
  

   depth 
  of 
  seas, 
  volume 
  of 
  lands 
  and 
  seas 
  ; 
  continents 
  and 
  oceans 
  

   and 
  their 
  permanence. 
  Land 
  surfaces 
  ; 
  weathering 
  and 
  denuda- 
  

   tion 
  by 
  wind, 
  rivers, 
  and 
  ice 
  ; 
  deformations 
  of 
  the 
  surface. 
  The 
  

   forms 
  of 
  the 
  surface 
  ; 
  plains, 
  hills 
  of 
  accumulation, 
  valleys, 
  basins, 
  

   mountains, 
  depressions, 
  caverns. 
  The 
  sea 
  ; 
  its 
  movements, 
  coasts, 
  

   and 
  bottom 
  ; 
  islands. 
  

  

  Under 
  most 
  of 
  these 
  subjects, 
  the 
  processes 
  of 
  form 
  production, 
  

   and 
  the 
  forms 
  thus 
  produced 
  are 
  separately 
  considered 
  ; 
  the 
  

   general 
  accounts 
  of 
  denudation 
  found 
  in 
  geological 
  treatises 
  not 
  

  

  * 
  Morphologie 
  dor 
  Erdoberflache 
  von 
  Dr. 
  Albrecht 
  Penck, 
  Professor 
  der 
  Geo- 
  

   graphie 
  an 
  der 
  TJniversitat 
  Wien. 
  Stuttgart, 
  Engelhorn, 
  1894. 
  2 
  vols. 
  8vo. 
  

   471 
  and 
  696 
  pp. 
  Author 
  and 
  subject 
  indexes. 
  

  

  