800 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. [ December, 
out by rivers. Prof. James Hall, in the discussion that followed, 
its strata were horizontal from bottom to top; but the surround- 
ing region was full of the evidences of disturbance. 
EAN Mountain CLUB, October 8.—Mr. W. Wells 
.; Prof.-C. E. 
Fay gave ae ae of the connection of the Portland White 
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mountain a of the late Violet-le-Duc; Prof. A. Geikie, of 
Edinburgh, was present, and addressed. the meeting. 
poston a oF NaruraAt History, October 15.—Prof. E. 
a Mors a some archzeological notes on Japan, and Mr. W. O. 
osby Pea on distorted pebbles in Coreen from the 
Ea district of Bost 
PROCEEDINGS OF MIDDLESEX SCIENTIFIC FIELD CLUB, MALDEN, 
Mass., November §.—Frank S. Collins read notes on the marine 
Algæ of Middlesex county, Mass, in oie twenty-nine species 
and one variety were enumerated. Among those new or rare in 
this locality were Ralfsia clavata Cronan, Enteromorpha clathrata 
var. prosirata, Cladophora expansa Kutz., Rhizoclonium 
The ‘co 
utz. 
has no coast line, and a collections were made in a small stream 
flowing into Mystic c riv H. ody read notes on the Asters, 
enumerating twenty eee and ey varieties collected in the 
county.— Geo. E. Davenport, Cor, Sec 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF a November 3.—The regular 
R N meeting was he Nov. 3d. B. B. Redding CDa 
the chair. F rro 
Locke were elected members of the ass ciation, In the absence 
o wa 
Prof. Cope, who was present was invited T eo The invita- 
several points in the paleontology and Booey of California. He 
first exhibited the skull of a large bear, found by J. A. Richard- 
ae ; : 
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make it necessary to refer it to a distinct genus, which is prob- 
ably the same as that to which the hee bear belongs. Prof. 
Cope named it Arctotherium simus. It was as large as the grizzly 
