1 882.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 843 



species, and hopes for the loan of rarities qnd even common spe- 

 cies from conchologists at home and abroad. 



— The Darwin memorial fund amounts to £2500, and the 

 memorial will take the form of a marble statue, to be placed in 

 the large hall of the new Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. 



— Our readers will deeply regret the untimely death of Pro- 

 fessor F. M. Balfour, who was killed in July at the age of 31, by 

 a fall on a glacier on Mont Blanc. His career had been a 

 remarkably brilliant one, his work was critical and yet profound, 

 and he had done perhaps more than any one else to advance em- 

 bryological science in England. His " Comparative Embryology" 

 will be a lasting monument to his genius as an investigator and 



— William Stanley Jevons, professor of political economy in 

 University College, London, was drowned while bathing at Bex- 

 hill, near Hastings, England, Aug. 15. His greatest work, " The 

 Principles of Science," gave him a wide reputation; it fully recog- 

 nized the place of the doctrine of evolution in the philosophy of 

 science. His text book on logic is widely used in American 

 colleges. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, Montreal, Aug. 23-30, 1882.— The attendance on this ses- 

 sion was nearly a thousand, being almost as many as met at 

 Boston two years ago; the citizens of Montreal gave a most 

 generous and warm reception to the association. The address of 

 the retiring president, Professor Brush, was on min< 

 present state and early history in America. The association will 

 meet in 1883 at Minneapolis, Minn., under the presidency of 

 Professor C. A. Young, Principal Dawson having been president 

 of the Montreal meeting. 



Professor Wm. B. Carpenter, of England, was present, and 

 delivered an evenino- lecture on the temperature of the deep sea, 

 and Mr. T. Graham Bell lectured on visible speech. Besides 

 Dr. Carpenter, Professors Szabo from Buda Pesth, W. Kowalevsky 

 of Moscow, and Haughton of Dublin, were present, and assisted 

 at the meeting. On the evening of the 24th the Peter Redpath 

 Museum of McGill University was formally opened. The excur- 

 sions were a pleasurable feature of the meeting. 



Following is a list of the papers read in geology : 



sof Dictyophyton, Phragmodictyum and similar forms with Hyphon- 

 2S.CE Shlo Black Shale (Huron Shale of New- 



