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port on intracellular digestion and its relations to pathology; by 
. G. Brown Goode, remarks on the velocity of animal motion. 
March 21.—Communications were made by Mr. Wm. H. Dall 
on the Marsupium of Milneria; by Prof. J. W. Chickering, Jr., 
exhibition of some botanical drawings and paintings ; by Dr. Tar- 
leton H. Bean, some features of collecting at Cozumel island, 
Yucatan ; by Dr. J. A. Ryder, on the development of the mam- 
mary glands in the Cetacea; by Mr. Lester F. Ward, phyllotaxy 
of Paulownia imperialis. — 
New York Acapemy oF Sctences, March 2.—The following 
paper was read: Meteorological and hypsometrical notes in the 
islands of the Curaçao group, West Indies, by Dr. Alexis A. 
ulien, 
March 23.—The following paper was read: Notes on building- 
stones (with illustrations), by Mr. Arthur H. Elliott. ; 
March 30.—The following paper was read: On the trigono- 
metric and topographic surveys of the United States (illustrated 
by lantern slides, and the exhibition of instruments actually 
employed in the field), by Prof. Wm. P. Trowbridge. 
Boston Society oF Natura History, March. 4.—Dr. E. G. 
Gardiner spoke of the development of the bill and epidermis in 
the chick. 
March. 18.—Mr. C: E. Ridler read papers on some of the rare 
plants of Kingston, Mass., and on some ancient stone implements 
from the same locality. y 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society, March 19.—Mr. Ernest In- 
gersoll delivered a lecture entitled, How the settlement of North 
America has affected its wild animals. ; 
APPALACHIAN MounTAIN Crus, March 11.—The following 
papers were presented: Some of the hills of Plymouth county, 
by C. E. Ridler; altitudes in Massachusetts, with a sketch of the 
Massachusetts trigonometrical survey conducted by Simeon Bor- 
den, 1830-1840, by E. G. Chamberlain; a week in the Pemige- 
wasset wilderness, by Rev. H. P. Nichols (read by R. F: Curtis). 
Special Meeting, March 20—An ascent of Ben Nevis, illus- 
trated with a few lantern views, was presented by A. E. Scott; a 
trip from the Connecticut lakes to the Rangeley lakes, was read 
by R. B. Lawrence. : 
PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Jan. 27.—Miss 
A. M. Fielde gave the results of a series of experiments upon the 
power of regeneration of lost parts possessed by earthworms 
