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insect remains found by him in slabs Meet Sphenophyllum. They 
were referred by Mr. Scudder to the Blattarie. From the Devonian beds 
of Gaspé the author stated that he had ec a small species of Ceph- 
alaspis, the first yet detected in America. Mr. Etheridge remarked that 
the Cephalaspis differed materially in its proportions from any in either 
the Russian or British rocks. — Nature. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
MARYLAND ACADEMY OF Scrences. — By this title we announce the or- 
ganization of a Natural History Society in the city of Baltimore. We are 
glad that the long continued efforts of the gentlemen who are its present 
officers have at length resulted in the establishment of a society regularly 
chartéred, and with some fifty members. They have, as it appears from an 
r 
ad states their case very fairly and modestly to the citizens of Balti- 
re, and we do not see how they can do otherwise than sustain the new 
society x they care at all for the completion of their system of public in- 
structi 
an pu devoted to the exposition of the natural resources of 
the country have a recognized value in Europe and in some of the cities 
of this country. But their refining influence € society, the cultivation 
which results from their publications and teachings, especially if they 
vanced students of the public schools, as the Boston Society has done, is 
not at all appreciated or even understood. 
The basis of the new academy, as announced in article two, is broad and 
effective, and ought to insure its members the moral and material support 
search, and to collect, preserve and diffuse information relating to the 
sciences, especially those connected with the natural history of Maryland." 
The officers of the academy are Philip T. Tyson, president; John G. 
Lee, treasurer; P. R. Uhler, curator; A. Snowden Piggott, M.D., Libra- 
rian; J. B. Uhler, J. DeRosset, M.D., and F. E. Chatard, jr., M.D., as- 
iutint curators. 
