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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
RICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society, Jan. 14th—Major A. G. 
Gaastable lectured upon Afghanistan, the present seat of war, and 
the relations of that country to England and Russia. 
Feb. 11.—Chief-Justice Daly delivered his annual address, the 
subject being Cartography, the history of map-making previous 
to the time of Mercator. 
Bosron Society or NATURAL History, Dec. 18. — 
Hagen made a communication on the Carpet- Heet and other 
house i museum pests. 
Jan. 1879. — Mr. L. S. Burbank remarked on a definite 
iad record in certain stratified rocks; also on veins and 
enclosures in the granite of Rollstone Hill, Fitchburg, Mass., and 
exhibited crystals and cut gems of yellow beryl from Fitchburg. 
Jan. 15—Prof. R. H. Richards remarked on some optical phe- 
nomena seen at Lake Superior. Prof. N. S. Shaler spoke con- 
cerning the Brighton Amygdaloids. 
eb. 5—Dr. S. Kneeland read a paper on the monstrous in 
art, or the Loe of zoology to symbolism. Mr. W. O. Crosby 
remarked on the fossiliferous boulders of Cape Cod, Dr. T. 
Sterry Hunt referred to recent studies in Pre-Cambrian geology. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLuB, Jan. 8.—At the election of 
officers for 1879, Prof. Charles E. Fay was elected president. Mr. 
Frederick A. Ober read a paper on his explorations in the Lesser 
Antilles Caan se stereopticon views). 
eb Mr. J. Raynor Edmands read a paper on the identi- 
fication of dian points, with a description òf Prof. Fernald’s 
recent determination of the position of Mt. Katahdin, Me. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA- 
DELPHIA, December 17, 1878.—President, Ruschenberger, in the 
chair ; Mr. Meehan made some remarks on the seeding of Catalpa, 
stating that terminal flowers only perfect seed. Mr. Ford from 
a perfect specimen of Nautilus pompilius suggested that the use 
of the siphon was to keep alive that part of the shell constituting 
the chambers. Mr. Ryder offered some observations on varia- 
tions in the number of toes of young Amphiume, suggesting that 
the two sais recognized genera were hardly yet differentiated 
from each o 
D stent a Dr. Ruschenberger in the chair. Dr. Koe 
' gave the results of an analysis of a new mineral substance oan 
€ proposed to call Randite, provisionally. In the election for 
officers to serve for the ensuing year, which occurred at this 
_ Meeting, no changes were made from those who served Poe 
the preceding anuual term. 
january. 7,1 879.—Dr. Ruschenberger in the chair. The Pres 
dent announced the death of the Rev. Dr. E. R. Beadle, s January 
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