636 Proceedings of Scientific Societies, [June, 1885. 
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Sept. 19, 1884.—The Secre- 
tary presented a series of thermometrical observations taken at 
Quito, Ecuador, between Sept. 17, 1858, and June 18, 1859, by Mr. 
C. B. Brockway. : 
Oct. 3.—Mr. Wall exhibited a full-size ‘canvas tracing of a large 
group of Indian pictures cut on the top and sides of a half-buried 
block of sandstone, lying near the bluff of the Monongahela valley, 
in Fayette county, Pa., 290 feet above the river. Photographs of 
this and also of carvings on the shore of the same river, near Ge- 
neva, and of a carved rock on the Evansville turnpike, West Vir- 
ginia, were also exhibited. 
Mr. Lesley read a paper upon the possible origin of the double 
crown of Egypt; and also exhibited a square pipe of limonite, 
deposited against the walls of a vertical drain at the Eagle shaft, 
near Pottsville. 
r. Syle presented a Chinese translation of Herschell’s Out- 
lines of Astronomy, published at Shanghai, Dec., 1859. 
Oct. 17.—Dr. D. G. Brinton presented a communication upon 
the language and ethnographic position of the Xinka (Shinka) 
Indians, with two vocabularies of three dialects. Mr. Ashburner 
read some notes upon the origin and dimensions of the Natural 
Bridge of Virginia. A communication upon the doubtful char- 
acter of Professor Lewis’s alleged continuous -inge of trap 
through Southern Pennsylvania, was made by Dr. Frazer. 
Nov. 7.—Dr. Syle made a verbal communication on the struc- 
ture of the Chinese language and exhibited copies of the Shanghai 
Chinese ///ustrated News. Professor Cope presented a paper by 
Miss Helen C. D. Abbott, entitled An analysis of the bark of the 
Fuquiera splendens. Professor Cope proposed to communicate 
oe of the Reptilia and Batrachia of Mexico and Central 
erica, 
Dec. 5.—Professor J. J. Stevenson communicated Notes on 
metamorphism; Dr. P. Frazer exhibited and explained his inven- 
tion of an improvement on the pocket compass; and Mr. Ash- 
burner exhibited a new map of the anthracite region, 
Dec. 19.—Professor Cope read by title Twelfth contribution to 
the herpetology of Tropical America. 
Mr. Ashburner communicated some notes on the recent publi- 
hic cations of the Second geological survey of Pennsylvanig. 
