470 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. [ June, 
Peabody Academy, at Salem, Mass., will be opened July 6th, 
under the direction of Prof. E. S. Morse, aided by Profs. G. L. 
Goodale, H. G. Straight, Dr. C. S. Minot, and Mr. John Robin- 
son, John Sears and Charles Fish. The course is solely for 
teachers, and will be elementary in its character. 
— A new Summer School of Biology. Professors Shepard 
and Ford announce their intention of establishing a Summer 
School of Biology at Drury College, Springfield, Mo., beginning 
July Ist, and continuing at least six weeks. Prof. Shepard stud- 
ied for a time under Prof. Packard, while Prof. Ford was a 
student of Prof. Peck, the N. Y. State botanist. 
— At the meeting of the Sixth Congress of Russian Naturalists, 
Prof. Andreieff spoke of the necessity of giving instruction in 
natural sciences in primary schools; and M. Gerd gave an ad- 
dress on the impulse which could be given to the study of nature 
in Russia, its flora and fauna, by the teachers of the primary 
schools. 
— The Michigan State Pomological Society has, at the sugges- 
tion of Prof. A. J. Cook, offered two prizes, the first of fifty dollars, _ 
and the second of twenty-five, to be given to the neighborhood 
that shows most skill, thoroughness and secures best results in 
destroying the coddling moth. 
— The Japanese Government are about to establish a Geologi- 
cal Staff, to whose care will be committed a geological survey of 
the whole of Japan, founded upon the plan of the Geological 
Survey of the United Kingdom. 
— The second edition of V. Rattan’s popular Botany of Cali- 
fornia has been recently published. by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San 
Francisco. 
— Mr. Charles C. Frost, the noted shoemaker botanist of Brat- 
tleboro, Vt., died last week aged seventy-five years. 
— Prof. Thomas Bell, the well-known English naturalist, lately 
died aged eighty-seven. 
— The following errata occur in the March number: p. 161, 
line four and ten, for opademe read apodeme ; line eleven for samite 
read somite. In the April number, p. 247, line 11, and in expla- 
nation of Fig. 14, for moth, read butterfly. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
NATIONAL AcADEmy OF Sciences, Washington, D. C., April 20, 
1880,—The following papers were read: 1. Binocular Vision; 
Laws of Ocular Motion, by Joseph LeConte; 2. Hollow Water- 
Spouts and Sand-Spouts, by W. Ferrel; 3. On the Structure 
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