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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— Ina recent letter to Dr. Hayden, M. de Lapparent, President 
of the Société Geologique de France, writes that the Geological 
Society of France has resolved to celebrate the fiftieth anniver- 
sary of its foundation. This should properly occur on the 15th 
of March, but as the annual meeting takes place April Ist, the 
Society has decided that the two meetings shall take place at the 
same time. A report will be read of the part which the Society 
has taken in the geological progress of the last fifty years. After 
the meeting a banquet will be given by the French members of 
the Society to the foreign geologists who have been so good as 
to respond in person to the invitation to be present. M. de Lap- 
parent speaks of the pleasant relations established with foreign 
geologists by the meeting of 1878, and hopes that these relations 
will be further increased in 1880, and that much may be done to 
render the meeting at Bologna, in 1881, still more interesting and 
important. 
— The dispute between the Directors of the Park Commission- 
ers and the Permanent Exhibition Company of Philadelphia 
having been settled to the satisfaction of both parties, the latter 
will at once proceed to carry out its plan as a combination of 
museums, The close of last year saw a balance of $16,000 in its 
treasury, and it is believed that next year a considerable increase 
in the fund available for scientific purposes, will be made. 
— Mons. A. Robin (Préparateur a la Faculté des Sciences), Rue 
d’Ulm, 38, Paris, France, is now preparing a general work upon 
the anatomy of the Chiroptera, and wishes to obtain, either by 
ei a or otherwise, American material in this order of mam- 
mals, 
— According to the Academy, C. Kegan Paul & Co., London, 
have published a memoir of the late Dr, Phillip P. Carpenter, 
well known as an able naturalist as well as philanthropist and 
sanitary reformer. 
— The Academy of Science at Turin has awarded a prize, 
amounting in value to about £480, to Mr. Charles Darwin for his 
discoveries in the physiology of plants. 
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pobited and described two new meteorites from the Southern 
tates. 
March 1.—Prof. E. C. Spitzka made a communication on the 
brain of man and of the ape, their resemblances and their differ- 
ences, 6 . eee: oe 
