346 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [May, 1879. 
The Club propose to investigate, and, if possible, establish a 
museum illustrating the natural history of Middlesex county. 
For this purpose special departments in the different branches 
of natural science have been organized, under the direction of the 
Executive committee, and the botanical department has been 
divided wA atoegs for the better prosecution of that portion 
of the Club’s work. 
Mr. ‘seat vain by Mr. Huntington and Mr. Roscoe Fro- 
hoch, will have charge of the Phanogamous sections, Mr. Daven- 
port of the vascular Cryptogams, and Mr. Collins of the Alge. 
The entomological department will be in charge of Mr. Moody, 
and the ornithological. department conducted by Mr. Wm. B. 
Gibbs. Communication with the Club may be had by addressing 
the corresponding secretary, at Medford, Mass. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, March 1 
Julien gave an account of simple devices in determinative lith- 
ology, and Prof. T. Egleston read a paper on pre-historic mining. 
at Lake Superior. 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society, New York, April 8—Mr. 
William I. Marshall read a paper on the Yellowstone National 
Park, with a description of the wonders of that region 
APPALACHIAN MounTAin Civs, Boston, April Gahe Coun- 
cillors presented their spring reports, and a paper was read by 
Prof. F. W. Clarke, entitled a trip to North Carolina, describing 
the mountains of that State. 
April 16.—Mr. Justin Winsor delivered an ges ess lecture 
on the earliest maps, of the American contine 
Boston Society ÓF NATURAL HISTORY, April 2.—Rev. 
Wright made a communication on the medial and terminal 
moraines of New England. Mr. Warren Pewee read a paper on 
the glacial drift in Boston: and vicinity, and Dr. C. S..Minot 
remarked on histological differentiation. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
SIEBOLD AND KOLLIKER’s ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE 
ZooLoGig.—March 13. The Anatomy of Amblystoma_ weis- 
manni, by R. Wiedersheim. On pelagic Annelidans from the 
shores of the Ergin panis by R. Greef. The motions of our 
land snails, by H. S 
AMERICAN ka i OF SCIENCE AND ARrTS.——The Vertebræ of 
recent birds, by O. C. Marsh. The lower jaw of Loxolophodon, 
by. H. E Osborn and F. Speir, Jr. Notice of recent additions to 
the paring fauna of the eastern coast of North America, by A. 
E: Verr 
THE E NATURALI ist.—March 22. Remarks on recent 
~ papers on the geology of Nova Scotia, by J. W. eh Notes 
x ‘oe the ED of British Columbia, by G. M. Dawso 
