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care they were entrusted, becoming tired of her charge, turned them out 
of the cage in which they had thus far been kept. At first they seemed 
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trees in the garden, but after a trial of several days, finding themselves 
unable to procure food, they came back and ventured by degrees into 
remained with us till the latter part of October, when they both vati) 
disappeared. — WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 

PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
——9o09——— 
THE SALEM MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. — It is a sudden : 
transition from the lake and prairie scenery about the great city of Chi- 
cago, where the Association held its meetings last year, to the small and 
quiet City of Peace, resting between the rock-bound coasts of Nahant 
and Cape Ann, with its sedute environs and pleasant beaches at 
Beverly, Swampscot and ant. From present appearances the meet- 
ing will be largely attended, and the sessions prove at least of the 
ual interest S various short excursion u ssex County are 
projected we give a brief sketch of the physical features of the v cinity 
of Salem The soil is underlai eiss rocks, with trap and den 
Successive eruptions; the sienites thus injected being often changed 
ns; 
into a pci greenish or reddish jasper, many pebbles of which are 
found in udding-stone about Roxbury. The age of these rocks is 
not ja. ace known, and the question of their age and that of the 
igneous rocks accompanying them, and their relation to the beds of con- 
ya about Boston, and the Lower Silurian rocks at Braintree, ren- 
ers up geology of Essex and Sussex County a most difficult, sanas 
ly interesting study, and one as yet but hardly touched upon b; 
