Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [April, 1882. 



Middlesex Institute, January ir, 18S2. — Mr. Herbert Glea- 

 son read a paper on Structural geology as illustrated by the 

 formation of the American continent. E. H. Capen, president of 

 Tufts College, Professor John P. Marshall and Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Jr., were elected honorary members. 



February 8. — President Dame read a paper on Schools of for- 

 estry. A paper from Warren H. Manning, of Reading, on the 

 cultivation of trees, was read by the secretary, and followed by a 

 general discussion. The executive committee announced a course 

 of instructive lectures in the different departments of botany for 

 the remainder of the winter season. 



February 15. — Professor Edward S. Morse delivered a lecture 

 on the Ancient glaciers of North America. 



SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 



American Journal of Science, March. — Gold-bearing rocks 

 of the province of Minas Geraes, Brazil, by O. A. Derby. The 

 flood of the Connecticut River valley from the melting of the 

 Quaternary glacier, by J. D. Dana. Geographical distribution of 

 certain fresh-water mollusks of North America, and the probable 

 causes of their variation, by A. G. Wetherby. Description of a 

 new genus of the order Eurypterida from the Utica slate, by C. 

 D. Walcott. Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying 

 the outer banks off the southern coast of New England, No. 4, 

 by A. E. Verrill. Origin of jointed structure in undisturbed clay 

 and marl deposits, by J. LeConte. 



Geological Magazine, February. — Cyrena fluminalis at Sum- 

 mertown, near Oxford, by J. Prestwich. On Spermophilus be- 

 neath the glacial till in Norfolk, by E. T. Newton. Supplement 

 to a chapter in the history of meteorites, by W. Flight. Traces 

 of a great post-glacial flood, by H. H. Howorth (concluded). 



