336 BOOKS RECEIVED. 
posits, at corresponding depths, have ae found on the opposite side of 
the river in the vicinity of Fort Wadsw 
he investigations made on the Pie re shores, soniri the con- 
bam arrived at by Professor G. H. Cook, in his report on.the Geology 
of Cape May county, N. J., that the oscillation of land on this coast dur- 
ing the last epoch has been one of subsidence. If the formation found 
near Fort Lafayette be, as it evidently is, an ancient marsh, the depres- 
sion has been at least fifty-three feet. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIE Seven- 
teenth Annual Meeting, at ee Peskin 1868. — The pret of the 
American Association for the Adva nt of Science are, by peri 
and migratory meetings, to prom oa ue between those who art 
caliente science in different parts of North America; to giv 
and more general impulse, and a more systematic direction to scientific 
research in our country, and to procure for the labors of scientific me 
sp eg coh and a wider usefuln 
enteenth meeting of the purr will be held at Chicago, 
during pi week commencing on Wednesday, August 5, 1868, at 10 0° 
clock, A. M. 
It will be the aim of the Local Committee to make the sojourn of the 
members of the ey asa in Chicago pleasant, as well as profitable ins 
scientific point of view. The usual local courtesies will be extended to 
them, both by private citizens and poy ic bodies. Resolutions of invitt 
tion, and offers of the use of room , libraries, collections, rst 
already been passed by the Academy se "Sciences, the Historical Societf 
the Young Men’s oo” the University of Chicago, the Board 
Trade, and other bodie 
ith the view of i Saky as large a meeting as possible, ae 
tion has been given to the facilities for coming to and returni 
city over all routes of travel. seer $ have been made w 
granted by the proprietors of some of the sioanbom lines 
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BOOKS RECEIVED. 
son Crania. By Jeffries Wyman Boston, 1868. ag a} 
Monograph of the Alcide. By Eliott en M. D. ` philadelphia, ecg by De 
List of Birds collected in Southern Ari By Dr. E. Palmer; W 
vo, a a gociety af 
talogue of Maine Plants. Published by the Portland 
vo, pp. 12. an 
Journal of Natural Hist. tory. Third series, vol. 4, no. 4 (and 
vol. 5, no. 1, 2, 8vo. Copenhagen, 1 
The Gospel in the Trees. By Alexander Clark. Philadelphia, 1968. 
April 25, May 16, 23, 30, June a 
The Field. May fe 30, June 6, 13, 20. 
The American B rnal. June. Washtiesoh, D.C. 
News. “Fa New York. 
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