56 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
lands. This crater is situated on the summit of Haleakala, its rim 
being = np average elevation of 10,000 feet above the sea. Its depth 
is about 2,000 feet, and the comparatively level plain which forms — 
eae kede. at an elevation of 8,000 feet. The whole cir- — 
ee of the crater is thirty or TE miles, it being one of 
the largest in the 
Mr. Winwood ae of England, who was present as a visitor, read 
to the Society a paper upon the habits of the Gorilla, the result of his 
personal investigation in the Gaboon region. 
Section of Entomology, Jan. 23.—Mr. Scudder remarked on a small 
f fo 
Tertiary, probably Miocene, beds of Green River, near the boundary 
line of Colorado and Utah Territories. The number of species so 
to about fifty, though they are so imperfectly preserved as to 
cult, ae not gcse to identify. 
he abun orms are Diptera, and they comprise indai 
fetid. a the ri number, either in the larval or imago state; 
the others are = very minute Coleoptera, and there are besides 
several Homoptera, minute parasitic Hymenoptera, Pteromali, a 
mica, a moth, and a ag apparently allied to that of Limacodes 
The perfect Diptera are mostly small species of Mycetophitide and 
Tipulide. There are besides some which are apparently Muscide. 
Among the larve are those of Muscide, together with other larve be- 
longing to species of which the adults are not represented on these 
stones. The Homoptera belong to genera allied to Issus, Gypona, 
— and some ofthe Tettigonide. The collection does not agree, 
in the aggregation of species, with any of the insect beds of Europe, 
or with the-insects of the amber fauna on the shores of the Baltic. 
A paper was also read On Monstrosities observed in the wings of Lepi- 
= DR and on the method of producing them artificially, by D. 
velot 
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a NATURAL History Sociey. Bloomington, Annual Meeting, 
December 19,1866. The nih resolution was passed: 
Resolved, That the e cre the general commissioner be instructed 
to correspond and i confer crea the principa I ee teeing natural s science of the va- 
"ea schools and ges in the state, with naturalists and friends of science. 
to detini vo local auxiliary societies, tons 
Pnnemnin an asl cine eg of on a 
rinig were presented to the society both at pe June and the pres- 
ent meeting, by Prof. Ma arcy, of the Northwestern Univers rsity, 
Vasey, Prof. ~h of the State Normal rents and Dr. F. Bren- 
del, of Peoria.— Prairie Farmer. 
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