730 Proc. of Sci. Socs. and Selected Articles in Sci. Serials. [ Nov.’79. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLUB, August 27.—A field meeting 
was held at Rev. Mr. Worcester’s study, near the Intervale station, 
North Conway, August 27, when the following papers were read: 
Three days’ walk upon the Great Range, by W. H. Pickering; 
The changes in the Saco meadow caused by freshets, by Rev. 
Henry A. Parker; Notes upon local names of the mountains, by 
Rev. Worcester ; Report upon some new paths, by Dr. W. 
B. Parke 
Boston Society oF NATURAL History, October 1.—Mr. M. E. 
Wadsworth remarked on Danalite, Picrolite and Picrosmine. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL oF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. Whi The 
morphology of the vertebrate olfactory organ, by A. Milnes Mar- 
shall. On the brain of the cockroach (Blatta orientalis), by E. 
T. Newton. The microphytes which have been found in the 
blood, and their relations to disease, by T. R. Lewis. On the 
early development of the Lacertilia, etc., by F. M. Balfour. On cer- 
tain points in the anatomy of Peripatus capensis, by F. M. Balfour 
(shows that the nervous cords are minutely ganglionated). 
Tue GeoLocicaL Macazine.—July. How the appearance of 
a fault may be produced without fracture, by W. O. Crosby. The 
slow secular rise or fall of continental masses, by K. Petterson. 
August.—A cruise among the volcanoes of the Kurile islands, 
by J ohn Milne. The surface geology of a part of the Mississippi 
san (Iowa), by W. J. McGe 
Tue CANADIAN NATURALIST.— July 30. To e of the past 
and present condition of the Indians of Canada, by G. M. Dawson. 
Some observations on the Menobranchus seas by H. Mont- 
gomery. Address on disputed points in Canadian geology, by 
J-W. Daw 
JENAISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR NATURWISSENSCHAFT.— July 16. 
W. Haacke on blastology of corals (bears on the general mor- 
phology, the radial and bilateral symmetry of corals). 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARTS AND Scrences.—August. Terminal 
moraines of the North American ice-sheets, by W. Upham. The 
-~ loess of the Mississippi valley and the Aolian hypothesis, by E. 
W. Hilgard. Discovery of a new group of Carbpaiierony n rocks A 
; în South-eastern wes n E. B. Andrews. 
