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stratigraphy by Williams and the igneous rocks and historical 

 geology by Kindle. The interfingering of the western Portage 

 faunas into the eastern Hamilton-Chemung biotas is clearly de- 

 scribed and is of much interest to stratigraphers. c. s. 



%. Geology of the Auburn- Genoa Quadrangles • by D. D. 

 Luther. Bulletin 137 N. Y. State Museum, 1910, 36 pages and 

 geologic map. — An excellent description of the areal geology of 

 the region of Cayuga and Owasco lakes. The formations range 

 from the upper part of the Silurian to the close of the Devonian. 



c. s. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. National Academy of Sciences. — The annual Spring meet- 

 ing of the National Academy was held at Washington on April 

 19 to 21 ; some forty members were in attendance. 



The following new members were elected : Douglas H. Camp- 

 bell, Professor of Botany in Stanford University ; John Dewey, 

 Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University ; Jacques Loeb, 

 Professor of Physiology in the University of California ; Forest 

 R. Moulton, Professor of Mathematics in the University of 

 Chicago ; William A. Noyes, Professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois ; Thomas B. Osborne, Chemist of the Connecti- 

 cut Agricultural Experiment Station ; Charles Schuchert, Professor 

 of Paleontology in Yale University. Professor Giovanni Schia- 

 parelli, the astronomer, of Milan, Italy, Avas elected foreign 

 associate. 



The list of papers presented at the meeting is as follows : 



E. C. Pickering : The 16-inch Metcalf doublet. 



George E. Hale : Solar magnetism. Some visual and photographic 

 observations of Mars. 



William Trelease : The distribution of Agave in the West Indies. 

 Johm M. Coulter : The vascular plate and cotyledons of Gymnosperms. 



F. E. Nipher : Some crucial experiments demonstrating the necessity of 

 accepting the one-fluid theory in electricity. 



W. J. Humphreys : A probable indirect relation between solar disturb- 

 ance and terrestrial temperatures. 



E. A. Harrington : Quantitative studies of tuning forks. 



S. W. Stratton : The Bureau of Standards. 



Arthur L. Day : The determination of temperature constants in mineral 

 formations. 



J. M. Crafts : A new form of gas thermometer and the boiling points of 

 water and naphthalene. 



H. N. Morse : The temperature coefficient of osmotic pressure. 



H. L. Abbott : Hydraulics of the Chagres river. 



CD. Walcott : The development of Olenellus. 



E. W. Hilgard : A new development of mudlump activity at the mouth 

 of the Mississippi river. 



H. F. Osborn : The correlation of the Pleistocene of Europe and North 

 America. The epidermal covering of the trachodont Dinosaurs. Biograph- 

 ical memoir of Joseph Leidy. 



W. B. Scott : Eeport of progress in the study of the Miocene Ungulates of 

 Patagonia. 



J. M. Clarke : The austral Devonian. 



