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Asphaltum from the marl of Vincenttown, N. J., and a peculiar 
amber from the same source which was considered to be Krant- 
site. Dr. Konig exhibited his Chromometer, an apparatus devised 
for the purpose of making quantitative analysis of ores by the 
effect upon beads made by fusion with borax of their comple- 
mentary colors as seen through red or green prisms of very small 
divergence, 
Microscopical and Biological Section of the Academy, Feb. 3. 
—Prof. Wm. Barbeck delivered an illustrated lecture on the 
smuts, rusts and molds injurious to cereal grains 
Feb. 17.—Dr. J. Gibbons Hunt delivered a ‘lecture on the 
mosses and liverworts. 
SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS: 
PsycHE.—March. Pe oh distribution of North Ameri- 
can Coleoptera, by E. P. 
JENAISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR Naran —April 15. 
The comparative anatomy of the digestive system of birds, by 
H. Gadow ; part 1, with eight plates. (Contains many figures of the 
digestive tract, together with its appendages,of the ratitate and 
carinate birds, a very useful work). 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF Sind AND Arts.—May. Experi- 
ments in cross-breeding plants of the same variety, by W. J. 
a Hudson river age of the Taconic schists, etc., by J. D. 
Dan 
Tue Ba att? Macazine. — May. Notes on Palzozoic 
Crustacea, by H. Woodward. On Prof. Dana’ sclassification of rocks, 
by Prof. Bonney. On peg Saad mountains, by C. RR 
June 2.—Mr. J. S. Lamson exhibited specimens of the pre- 
historic pottery and other antiquities recently procured from 
graves in Chiqui, Central America, with some account of the 
mode of their occurrence. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLUB, May 14.—Prof. J. H. Hunting- 
= read a paper entitled, From the Forks of the Kennebec to 
ke Megantic, and Prof. W. H. Niles explained the use of the 
nies zope. 
ay 17, there was an excursion to Prospect Hill, Waltham, Mass. 
Boston Society or Narurat History, May 7.—Mr: M. 
Wadsworth discussed the classification of rocks, and Dr. T. M. 
Brewer noticed Bate birds of New England. 
M. Brewer continued his notices of New 
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piety barks Fae hirda. Gaa Mr. S. H. Scudder remarked on the earliest 
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