1880. | Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 71 
toothed birds. Prof. Mudge spent the greater part of his later years 
in camp life beyond the settlements in the employ of Prof. Marsh 
as field geologist for Yale College. He was a member of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of Science, and of other 
scientific bodies, and was instrumental in founding the Kansas 
Academy of Sciences, of which he was the first president. In 
1876 the office of State Superintendent of Public Institutions was 
Ey him, but he preferred to continue his field work. In 184 
Mudge married Miss Mary E. A. Beckford, of Lynn. Six 
‘dhibdren were born to them, of whom three are still living. 
— During his voyage near Behring Straits, Professor Nordens- 
kidld obtained numerous remains of Steller’s manatee, of which 
only a few bones have hitherto existed in the St. Petersburg 
Museum, dye large Sirenian, it wiil be remembered, became 
extinct in 1786 
— The death ofA. H, Garrod, ERS, Oct. 17th, at the age of 
thirty-four, is announced in the English papers. He was making © 
a excellent reputation as a comparative anatomist and. physi- 
ologist ; 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Kansas Acapemy oF Sciences, Twelfth Annual Meeting.—_ 
Prof. B. F. Mudge, the president of the academy, lectured on the 
mound-builders of America. Papers were read by the president 
on the metamorphic deposits in Woodson county, and on Indian ` 
mounds in Davis and Riley counties, also by Dr. A. H. Thomp- _ 
son on Indian graves near Topeka. The report of the Commis- 
-sion on Botany was read by Prof. J. H. Carruth, who announced ~ 
~ the pes of Seng 120 species new to the State. A paper was _ 
read by Hon. F. G. Adams, of Topeka, on the phonetic repre- 
eee of the Indian language, describing the systems or alpha- 
bets invented by the Cherokee, Sequoyah, and by Mr. Meeker,a 
‘Missionary who formerly resided in Johnson county. The alpha- 
bet formed by Mr. Meeker was said to be adequate to the perfect 
phonetic representation of any Indian language, a and books were 
iss in the characters of that eee in cleven Pik 
diale 
Boston Socrery or NATURAL History, Nov. sth- w 
Crosby spoke on the Evidences of Compression in the Roc 
_ the Boston basin, and Mr. J. W. Feukes on Aéyla penta; and 
‘its relation to a theory of bilateral symmetry. Nov. 19th—M 
rest Ingersoll read a brief survey of the nati 
assachusetts. Prof. A. Hyatt spoke on som 
7 changes undergone by fresh water snails ( Ld 
captivity, as observed by Mr. A. P. Whitfield. D 
` e: on the pee and thei 
