166 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Tue Lyceum or NATURAL History or New Yorx.—At the an- 
nual meeting of the Lyceum of Natural History, held in Sra Hall 
on Monday night, Feb. 25, the following officers were elec Presi 
dent, Prof. Charles A. Joy (of Columbia College); First jrma Pres- 
ident, vas f. J. S. Newberry; Second Vice-President, Gen. Livingston 
Satterlee; Corresponding Secretary, Robert teh die; Recording 
Secretary, Robert H. Browne; Treasurer, one Prime; Curators, 
S. C. H. Bailey, Geo. N. Lawrence, Dr. Rich d P. Stevens, George 
Suckley, M. D.; Librarian, Oran V ag Mor 
This Society was founded in 1818, by a Mitchell, Dr. Torrey, Mr. 
Cooper, and a few students of science. The early records of their 
meetings contain amusing accounts of the Sear ae made by the 
members to remote parts of the Island of New York, and of their ad- 
ventures among the swamps and brambles of Pearl ae Canal streets, 
ie 
iew af the fact that the Society has no hall of its own, an effort 
will be made to raise $100,000 for the purpose of securing suitable ac- 
commodations. , 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SciENcEe.— The 
> Sera Annual sting will be held at Burlington, Vermont. The 
Session begins on Wednesday, August 21st, 1867, at 10 o’clock, A. M 
*¢ The last meeting of the Association at Buffalo, N. me. sae eb 
a week, and was considered a pleasant and aaora T wal of the 
yearly conventions of the Association. About ninety ee members 
in attendance, one hundred and twelve new members were elect- 
bii and sixty-nine papers were presented and re: 
“Fears lest the cholera might prevent the Meeting at Buffalo, as it 
did at Cleveland for one year, caused the circular to be delayed until 
after r many mem! mbers of the Association no left their homes for the 
nconsistent with a journey 
to Buffalo. On this keeount the ‘aes was not so well attended as 
on some other occasions. The previous meeting at Nev wport, R. I., 
had also been small, As the assessments a are collected, in large part, 
suffered from two 
baon rant 
