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the last week in March. The exhibition opened Tuesday, March 
26, at 10 o'clock, A.M., and closed on Friday, the 20th, at r0 
o'clock, pM. Pictures of scenery among the mountains of New 
England were exhibited. 
April 4, a special meeting was held to hear and discuss a paper 
by Prof. H. F. Walling on some recent views of mountain struc- 
ture, 
April 10, a communication from Prof. A. Lakes, on an ascent 
of Long’s Peak, was read and an account of some barometrical 
observations in the White Mountains was received from Prof. F. 
W. Clarke. 
CINCINNATI Society or Naturav Hisrory.—This Society held 
its regular meeting in its building, corner of Broadway and Arch 
streets, on Tuesday evening, 3d inst. This was the occasion for 
annual reports by the retiring officers, and the election of their 
successors. The report of the Treasurer showed a balance in 
the treasury of over $40,000, so invested as to produce an annual 
gratifying results. The Society owns its own buildings, and has 
no outstanding debts whatever. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: 
President, V. T. Chambers; Vice-Presidents, ae 
and S. S. Cotton; Treasurer, I. A. Wright; Recording Secretary, 
Florien Giasque ; Corresponding Secretary, I. W. Hall; Libra- 
rian, I. C. Shroyer; Custodian, Dr. I. H. Hunt. The Curators 
elected were as follows : Mineralogy, Dr. R. M. Byrnes; Palæon- 
tology, Ed. O. Ulrich; Botany, Davis L. James; Conchology, 
Prof. A. G. Wetherby ; Entomology, I. W. Shorten ; Ornithology. 
Charles Dury; Icthyology, Dr. D. S. Young; Herpetclogy, Frank 
W. Langdon ; Comparative Anatomy, Dr. A. J. Howe; Astrono- 
my, Prof. Ormond Stone; Physics and Chemistry; Prof. R. B. 
Warder: Meteorology, Prof. Geo. W. Harper; Microscopy, Fred. 
Eckstein ; Archeology, Dr. H. H. Hill. The Society will now 
issue a regular quarterly journal of proceedings, the editors being _ 
Prof. I. F. Judge, Prof. G. W. Harper and Prof. A. G. Wetherby. 
The buildings are situated at the corner of Broadway and Arch 
Paice mecinnati, Ohio, and are always Opes to the public— 
A. G. 
yaoi GEOGRAPHICAL SocieTy.—March 21. W. Wright 
Hawkes, LL.D., delivered a lecture on the eaid Celtic monu- 
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ELMIRA Acapemy oF Scrence—March 15. Dr. W. H. Gregg 
remarked on time and the evolution theory, and F. Collingwood 
made a communication on the new moon of Mars versus the neb- _ 
ular hypothesis. Scientific progress in 1877 was then discussed, a = 
phonautograph was exhibited, and singing and talking with Bloss- . : 
burg by telephones was listened to by the members. a 
