178 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
We understand that the sub-section of Microscopy, so well 
started at the Salem meeting, and developed at Troy, will be well 
represented at the next meeting, and we beg to suggest to the 
Local Committee the importance of providing a room with proper 
light and substantial tables for the use of this sub-section, and a 4 a 
safe place for the deposit of the instruments that undoubtedly will - 
be taken to the meeting if members are notified in the general 
circular that such arrangements have been made. 
We also trust that some change will be made by the Association 
in relation to the Proceedings on the first day, and the time of 
delivery of the President’s address, which certainly should come 
off before he resigns the chair to his successor, and there seems no 
more appropriate time for the delivery of the address than the first 
evening, which it would be well to have permanently allotted to 
this purpose by vote of the Association. The organization of the 
meetings of the Association could be very much facilitated by & 
complete change of the present irregular and confusing mode of 
proceeding, and we trust the next meeting will inaugurate a de 
cided change in this respect. _ 
_ Members will remember that the titles of their papers must be 
sent in advance to the Permanent Secretary. a 
In this connection we call attention to a circular, which has 
been mailed to the address of every member from the office of the 
Narora.ist, in relation to the early publication of the papers to 
be read at the meeting, and to request any person, who has not 
_ received a copy and who intends to read a paper in any of the 
Natural History Sections, to send to the office of the AMERICAN 
Narvraist for one. k 
GRU LOG I. i 
Some Puystca, FEATURES or THE APPALACHIAN SYSTEM AND 
THE ATLANTIC Coast OF THE UNITED STATES, ESPECIALLY NEAR 
Care Harreras. — At the meeting, February 1st., of the Boston 
Society of Natural History, Professor N. S. Shaler gave an AC 
count of the coast line in the neighborhood of Cape Hatteras and 
the Chesapéake Bay. He thought it important in view of the A 
ological as well as the physical history of the continent, to aem 
mine the causes which had given the existing form to the sha 
line of this continent. The coast between the Rio Grande and the 
Chesapeake, presents but two considerable prominences. The first, 
