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Mount Baldface, in the White mountains, which is 3600 feet high, 

 and at other points in the White mountains, where I could ob- 

 serve the course of the ancient glaciers by trains of boulders and 

 also by glacial grooves. These peculiar lunoid furrows are evi- 

 dently made by rounded boulders freezing into the bottom of the 

 glacier; the stone being thus frozen solidly into the ice, serves as 

 a rude gouge, wearing out a crescent-shaped depression. The 

 succession of several such furrows appears to be the result of the 

 stone's slipping from the ice and turning over and becoming 

 frozen in again during the advancing and receding motions of the 

 glacier. 



The presence, then, of these furrows is good evidence that the 

 ice moved down the bay seaward. They could not have been 

 made by floe ice, as the polar current flows along the coast at 

 right angles to the direction of the bay, while it also appears that 

 similar marks are abundant on the summits of some of the White 

 mountain peaks. In a future paper I shall have more to say of 

 glacial phenomena in Labrador. 



EDITORS' TABLE. 



EDITORS : A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 



The intelligent press of the country is gradually adopting 



the position taken by the Naturalist, in its August number, 

 on the question of the insanity of Guiteau, the murderer of Presi- 

 dent Garfield. This is, that whether legally insane or not, the 

 mental condition of the prisoner falls within the boundary-line of 

 insanity. 



This was simply an adaptation of the well known views of 

 Herbert Spencer and Dr. Maudsley. It is to be hoped that a 

 full investigation of Guiteau's case will lead to an important modi- 

 fication of the legal definition of insanity, and of the laws relative 

 to the treatment of insane criminals. In the first place, the pres- 

 ent definition, which only admits insanity where the criminal is 

 unable to judge of the consequences of an act, is certainly erro- 

 neous. Persons undoubtedly insane often act with deliberate design, 

 and great forethought. It would be a safe, though not a perfect 

 definition of insanity, to describe it as a state of mind in which 

 acts are committed, which are in direct opposition to the plain 

 and obvious interests, not of persons affected by the act, but of 



