152 Proc. of Sct. Socs. and Selected Articles in Sct. Serials. [Feb., 80. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, Dec. 15.— Mr. Isaac N, 
Merritt read a description of the remarkable newly-discoved Luray 
caverns, Page county, Virginia (with illustrative specimens). 
Jan. g—Pr of. H. Bolton remarked on the application of 
organic acids to the examination of minerals (second paper). 
Boston Society oF Natura History, Dec. 1 7, 1879.—Mr. F. 
W. Putnam remarked on Conventionalism in Ancient American 
Art, illustrated by specimens of pottery from the Peabody Mu- 
seum of American Archeology and Ethnology. 
Jan. 7.—Mr. J. S. Diller read a paper on the Felsites and their 
associated rocks north of Boston. Mr. W. O. Crosby remarked 
on distorted pebbles in conglomerates, and Mr. F. W. Putnam 
read a short account of the largest mound in the United States. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Jan. 1880.— New forms of fossil 
Crustaceans from the Upper Devonian rocks of Ohio, by R. P. 
Whitfield (describes certain Devonian Phyllocarida under the name 
of Echinocaris (new genus), and a Devonian Decapod Crustacean 
with the name of Paleopalemon newberryi, this being the oldest 
genuine Decapod Crustacean yet known). New characters of 
Mosasauroid Reptiles, by O. C. Marsh. 
SIEBOLD’s UND KOLLIKER’s ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFT- 
LICHE ZOOLOGIE, December 12.—Studies on the organization and 
development of the Chalinid Sponges, by C. Keller. Structures of. 
the Lemipoda, by G. Haller. On the morphology of the pelvic 
and shoulder- arden of the bony fishes, by Olga Metschnikoff. 
On some octoradiate ae sponges, and on the development of 
their buds, by E. Sel 
sige i ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFT, Nov. 30, | 
1879.—O. and R. Hertwig continue their beautiful studies on the 
anatomy and histology of the Actiniz. 
THE GeoLocicaL Maaazine, Dec. 1879.—On the Parallel Roads | : 
of Glen Roy, by J. R. Dakyns ; 
JOURNAL OF THE Siesta’ MicroscoricaL Crus, Nov. 1879. © 
—On a method of resolving diatom tests, by A. Schulze: 
the anatomy of Actinia mesembryanthemum, by F. A. Bedwell. 
On staining sections of animal tissues, by J. W. Groves (a very _ 
useful paper). On some improvements in microscopical turn- ag 
tables, by C. S. Rol Ife. | 
