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Professor Cope read a paper ‘On a new fossil reptile from the 
cretaceous strata of Kansas,” which was named Cynocercus incisus. 
The vertebral articular faces were deeply excavated above and 
below, so as to give them a transverse character. A new Croc- 
odilian from the same region was named Hyposaurus Vebbii. 
Professor H. Hartshorne read a paper on * Organic Physics,” of 
which the following is an abstract : 
1. The expression ‘‘ organic physics” is as well justified as 
“organic chemistry” and *“ animal mechanics.” For, 
ital force is clearly correlated with other physical forces, as 
heat, light, ete. 
3. But the correlation is not identity. 
4. Advocates of the ‘‘continuity” theory have endeavored to 
make it appear to be identity ; but they will not succeed ; because, 
Oe The effects of heat, light, electricity, magnetism and gravita- 
tion are known, and they always tend (in the absence of life) to, 
an opposite kind of change to that which occurs under life-force ; 
namely, ' 
6. They form of C., H., N., S., P., and C., compounds of few 
equivalents and stable equilibrium; while, under life-force, the 
same elements are made to produce compounds of many atoms or 
equivalents and of unstable equilibrium; the first are mainly erys- 
talloids, the second always colloids. 
The directness of this opposition is especially demonstrated 
by the result of death (arrest of life-force), which is attended b 
the resolution of the complex, unstable, colloidal organic substances 
Into more simple, stable erystalloids and gases. 
able, at least, though not proven, that the assumption of particular 
forms, under given circumstances, is (analogous to crystallization) 
the property of the bioplasm ; i.e., given the matter, the form results 
as its property or attribute. k 
9. But chemists have never succeeded in making organizable 
l r by synthesis. Nor is it likely that they ever*will. All com- 
k eX organic substances made in the laboratory (as urea by Wöhler, 
atty acids, ete., by Berthelot, and even, if made, crystallizable 
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Fesults of the downward or retrograde metamorphosis ; produced 
ce be- 
