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in Easter Island truly belonged to an earlier population of the same Poly- 
nesian race who now inhabit the island. Sir George Gray also expressed 
the same opinion, and spoke of the habit of carving images as being a 
peculiarity of Polynesians, including the Maories, and that in a place 
here wood (the usual material very scarce, as it is in Easter 
which the images were made as supporting Sir George Gray's explana- 
tion. — Scientific Opinion. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. — The 
meeting of the Association for 1870 will be held at Troy, N. Y., beginning 
on Wednesday, August 17th, having been postponed by the Standing 
Committee from the 3d, at the request of the Local Committee. We be- 
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Receptions, Finance, Lodgings, Excursions, Rooms, Invitations, Printing 
and Railroads, we feel confident that the See. will be most cor- 
dially received.and taken care of during the ses 
e trust that the subsections of riha eie "uid Ethnology, and of 
Microscopy. organized at the Salem meeting, will be reorganized with a 
large attendance in these interesting departments. 
ollowing are the Officers of the Meeting: — William Chauvenet, 
St. Louis, President; T. S. Hunt, Montreal, Vice-President; Joseph h Lov- 
ering, Cambridge, Te anent Secretary; C. F. Hartt, Ithaca, General 
Secretary; A. L. yn, Philadelphia, Treasur 
Standing Committee.—William Chauve ee x Hunt, mais Lovering, 
C. F. Hartt, J. W. Foster, O. N. Rood, ó. a Marsh, A. L. Elw 
cal Committee. — John A. Griswold, Chairman ; George de ‘Burdett, 
First Vice-Chairman ; P. V. Hagner, Secon Vico- Chairman ; Benjamin H. 
Hall, General Secretary; H. B. Nason, Corresponding Recretinies ; Adam 
mith, Treasurer, and seventy-seven others. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
C. m plant found in flower June 21, on Mount Monadnok, is thi 
renaria 
Grenlandica. It is abundant on the summit of Mount Washington, and id have found 
it common at Hopedale, Labrador, where it grows near the uu of the oc 
