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errors, time-honored but with slender foundation. The 
was the occasion of much discussion, and occupied the antiki 
evening. 
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AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SocieTY.—Dec. 17, 1877, Mr. J. A. , 
Bennett, Esq., read a paper entitled My first Trip up the Magda- 
lena, and Life in the “ Heart of the Andes.’ '—Jan. 8, 1878, Rev. 
W. E. Griffis read a paper on Japan, Geographical and Social, with _ 
personal experiences. 
Boston Society oF NATURAL History.—Dec. 19, 1877, Prof. 
_E. S. Morse made some observations on the habits and structure 
of Lingula, including his discovery of otoliths, which had not 
been previously known to exist in any Brachiopods. —Jan. 2, 1878, 
r. T. Sterry Hunt made a communication on some è geological 
features of North Carolina, and Mr. J. . Allen remarked on an 
“ Inadequate Theory of Birds’ Nests.” ‘ 
APPALACHAIAN MounTAINn CLus.—Dec. 12, Prof. G. Lanza de- 
scribed an ascent of Scar Ridge, a mountain lying north-west of 
Mt. Osceola, and Mr. Warren Upham spoke concerning some un- 
named mountains between Mt. Hancock and Scar Ridge. 
SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.! 
Tue GeoGRAPHICAL MaGazineE.—December. Indian Famines 
and Sun Spots. Water-partings versus Ranges, by R. B. Shaw. 
The Arctic Fohn, by Sir G. S. Nares. Mr. Stanley's Voyage down 
the Congo (with Stanley’ s map of The Congo river). 
Tue GeoLtocicaL MaGazine.—December. American “Surface 
Geology,” and its relations to British, by S. V. Wood 
ANNALS AND MAGAZINE oF Narurat History. — December. 
Report on the ee collected during the Arctic Expe- 
_ dition, 1875-76, by P. M. Duncan and W. P. Sladen. A Post — 
tertiary Beds of Grinnell Land and North Greenland, by H 
Feilden. The Nomenclature of the Groups of Ratitæ, by Alfred 
Newton. ; 
1 The articles enumerated under this head are, for the most part, selected. 
