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the magnitude of the interests involved, and especially that no 
grave injustice would be done in selecting those who should have 
charge of the work. There was room for the employment of all 
o were engaged in the work now going on, and we firmly 
believe that had Prof. Henry, the lamented promoter of Amer- 
ican science in its broadest spirit, presided over the councils of the 
National Academy, the result would have been far different. 
Mr. King has our congratulations and best wishes, and we trust 
he will liberally construe the recent Act of Congress, and con- 
duct the surveys to be under his charge in the liberal spirit already 
shown in the series of elaborate reports of the Fortieth Parallel, 
one of the most expensive of which treats of the botany of the 
Survey.— A. S. Packard, Fr. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF 
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.—President Ruschenberger in the Chair. 
Mr. Meehan called attention to some specimens of Solidago odora, 
which was used in some parts of Pennsylvania as tea. Mr. Ash- 
burner exhibited some charts intended to illustrate the geological 
faults in Jack’s mountain, Pa. Mr. Potts exhibited some silk- 
worm cocoons in which the skin cast off from the trachea within 
was shown, and also that two worms spun a single cocoon in 
co-partnership. Mr. John Ford exhibited an oyster, the shell of 
which was almost destroyed by the common boring sponge. 
Jan. 28.—The President in the Chair. A paper entitled, Fur- 
ther Notes on the Mechanical Genesis of Tooth-forms, by John 
A. Ryder. Dr, Leidy exhibited a mass of worms from Cecil 
county, Md., supposed to be Gordius robustus, also the liver of a 
rat much infested with Cysticercus. 
Feb. 4.—The President in the Chair. Dr. Leidy described the 
fossil jaws and teeth of a deer from Muscatine, lowa, for which 
he proposed the name Cervus muscatinensis. Dr. H. C. Chap- 
man made a communication on the chimpanzee which recently 
died at the Zodlogical Garden, arriving at the conclusion, and 
agreeing with Prof. Owen, that the cerebrum did not fully cover 
the cerebellum, as held by Huxley and others. Detailed com- 
parisons were also made in regard to the arrangement of the 
muscles, 
Mıppresex Scientific Fietp Crus, Malden, Mass., organized 
March, 1878.—The Club held its first annual meeting March 5, 
1879, and elected the following officers: President, Henry L. 
Moody ; vice-presidents, Rev. Geo. P. Huntington, Frank S. 
Collins, Mrs. P. D. Richards; corresponding secretary, Geo. E. 
Davenport ; recording secretary and treasurer, F. W. Morandi ; 
custodian, Miss Hattie Silvester; Exec. Com., L. L. Dame, Geo. 
E. Davenport, Mrs. Annie U. Moody, Miss Martha Silvester, F. 
W. Morandi. 
