Sabbatia dodecandra, (L.) [S. chloroides, Pursh.,) was re- 
ported by Mr. E. M. Eadie from near Chelsea. It was found 
in the Autumn of 1887 growing abundantly on the salt 
meadow near Kreischerville. 
Dr. N. L. Britton showed specimens of yellow gravel and 
kaolin and remarked upon a recent discovery of another ex- 
posure of the Cretaceous strata which are known to underlie 
a considerable portion of Southfield and Westfield. This new 
exposure is on the Fingerboard Road about a quarter of a 
mile east of Grassmere Station. A cutting in the north side 
of the road shows a section of glacial and modified drift, under 
which may be seen some of kaolin similar to that which is so 
extensively dug near Kreischerville. This is associated with 
a small amount of yellow gravel. He stated that it could 
not be positively determined whether the kaolin was exactly 
in place or had been ploughed up from below and enclosed in 
the moraine as at the Prince's Bay bluff, already described in 
the Proceedings, November 8th, 1884. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Natural History at the Paris Exposition. — Although 
the Paris Exposition has no special biological department, it 
cannot be said that biology is entirely unrepresented. The 
Woods' and Forests' Building, in the Gardens of the Troca- 
; composed of trunks and branche 
naturalized in France, all labelled with their botanical and 
French names, and the gallery around its interior has a col- 
lection of the seeds, leaves, resins, etc., of those trees, as well 
as of the fungi and insects injurious to them. Around this 
building are planted examples of native and introduced trees. 
The exhibit of the Transvaal Republic, in the Invahdes 
Gardens, has a series of the eggs of many South African 
birds; the Argentine Republic, besides an extensive collection 
of woods, including many Legumenosae and R\xh\C3i, Zuglaus 
Australes, species of Myrsine, and large sections of Cedrcla 
brasiliensis, has a set of fishes, reptiles, etc., preserved in alco- 
hol, and Gautemala puts forward a fine collection of insects, 
and quite a number of birds. Most of the exhibits of the 
smaller and less important countries devote, in fact, a consid- 
erable space to their minerals, plants and animals, and this is 
true not only with regard to America, Australia and Africa, 
