1892.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 



the same conclusions in regard to the trap dike as a barrier befcw 

 different water sheds. 



Pieces of a drift bowlder of Lower Helderberg limestone, found 

 Arrochar, was shown by Mr. Gratacap, in which the following fin 

 were identified: Meristina arcuate Hall; Spirifera mueropleum ( 

 rad; Strophodonta beckii Hall; Strophomena rfumboidoH* Wl 

 Orthis subcarinata Hall; Eatonia medial* Vanuxeni ; Oatammwm < 

 cava Hall; C. imbricata Hall; and Gosselettia myti t imer a Com 

 The last five not previously reported from the Island Also porti 

 of a similar bowlder from the shore of Tottenville, containing Ten 

 ulites gyracanthus Eaton, and Fisluliporaf sp.?, both new to 

 Island. 



A note from Mr. Ira K. Morris was read, in which he stated t 

 the sketch of old Richmond County Hall, from which WM prepa 

 the cut printed in the proceedings of September 12th. 1891, was m 

 in September 1890. The building has since been entirely torn do 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



— Dr. Wilhelm Karl von Nageli, the late keeper of the Botanical 

 Museum and Garden in Munich, who died recently in hi- seventy- 

 fourth year, was a Swiss by birth. He was for some years Professor 

 of Botany at the University of Zurich, but in 1857 was invited by 

 King Maximilian II to the post which he so long occupied. He was 

 a many-sided man, a great mathematician and microseopist, as he 

 showed in his Das Mikroskop. His contributions to Alpine botany 

 are numerous. The post darwinian form of the doctrine of Evolu- 

 tion found an energetic opponent in Nageli. The Swiss papers 

 give a long list of his works. His study throughout life, as be Mid, 

 was to understand the " very least of the very little." 



— C. W. Stiles has been elected to the Societe de Biologic Pan- to 

 the vacancy caused by the death of Prof. Leidy (Membre correspond- 

 ent etranger). it* V ' 



— Theconipunv-niurryiii" limestmn m, K- ', ;. I-iand Lake Lne, 

 has presented to the Western Reserve Historical Society ot Cleveland. 

 a portion of the remarkable glacial grooves at that locality. 1 rot .. 

 F Wright of Oberlin writes to the Cleveland Leader as follows: 



The direction of these grooves is a little south of west, corresponding 

 to that of the axis of the lake. This is nearly at right angles to the 



