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of preservation, 170 being types of figures published in western 
geological reports; a large collection of trilobites from Trenton 
Falls, N. Y.; 2,500 skeletons from Prof. Ward of Rochester; Dr. 
Klumzinger’s collection of fishes from the Red Sea; the Moesch 
collection of Jurassic fossils; a large collection of Pacific coast 
insects ; the types of Loew’s American Diptera, an exceedingly 
valuable collection; and Gulick’s collection of Sandwich Island 
shells. Meanwhile the new rooms in the museum are nearly ready 
for the exhibition of specimens. 
Tue forty-third meeting of the British Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science was held at Bradford. Dr. Joule had been 
elected President for this meeting, but owing to ill health he was 
unable to be present, and Prof. A. W. Williamson presided and 
delivered an admirable inaugural address. With either this or 
Prof. Allman’s philosophical and profound address before the 
Biological Section, we wish we could say the address of the Presi- 
dent of the American Association compared favorably. Neither 
in the method of treatment nor in its spirit or style did the Amer- 
ican production do credit to the occasion. In another number we 
shall make liberal extracts from Prof. Allman’s address. The 
Association meets next year at Belfast, Ireland, Dr. Tyndall 
presiding. 
_A Meertne of the National Academy of Sciences was held 
October 28th and 29th, 1873, in New York City. The following 
papers relating to biology were read :— *“ Results of explorations 
of the deeper portions of the Gulf of Maine with the dredge,” by 
A. S. Packard, Jr; “ On the distribution and primitive number of 
spiracles of insects,” by A. S. Packard, Jr.; ‘‘ Cycles of deposi- 
tion in American sedimentary strata,” by J. S. Newberry ; “On 
a new method of analysis of composite sounds, and on experi- 
ments elucidating Helmholtz’s hypothesis of audition,” by A. M. 
ayer; “On the relations of the different classes of vertebrates,” 
by Theodore Gill; “ Biographical memoir of the late Prof. J. 
Frazer,” by J. L. LeConte. 
We are requested, by Dr. Coues and Mr. Ridgway conjointly, to 
state that neither of these gentlemen “desires to continue a contro- 
versy of no scientific consequence, and one which, furthermore, 
has lost its personal interest since a mutual misunderstanding in 
