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A. W. Wright; 16. On the phosphorescence of sulphate of qui- 
nine, by A. W. Wright; 17. Further generalızations regarding 
complex inorganic acids, by Wolcott Gibbs; 18. The Fauna of — 
the Gulf of Mexico, by A. Agassiz; 19. On the great object-glass — 
made by Alvan Clark & Sons for the Pulkowa Observatory, by 
Otto von Struve. ‘ 
The following foreign associates were elected: Struve, Adams, — 
. Cayley, Clausius, Dumas, Helmholtz, Kirchoff, Pasteur, Stokes, — 
Sylvester, Hooker, Thomson, Anvers, Bertrand, Huxley, Virchow, — 
Berthelot, Boussingault, Chevreul, De Candolle, Kölliker, Oppol- 
zer,.Richthofen, Wurtz. 7 
The following members were elected : Gilbert, Bell and Billings — 
of Washington, and Hill and Jackson of Cambridge, Mass. 
The following officers were elected: O. C. Marsh, president; 
Simon Newcomb, vice-president; Asaph Hall, home secretary; — 
and Professor Young, to fill a vacancy in the council. at 
SITZUNGSBERICHT DER GESELLSCHAFT NATURFORSCHENDER — 
FREUNDE zu BERLIN. 1882.-—Jan. 17. Herr P. Ascherson ex- — 
hibited some leaves of Sar safsaf Forsk., and some petals r 
Alcea ficifolia L., brought by Herr G. Schweinfurth from the 
to the twentieth dynasty. Salix safsafis at the present timè — 
common in Egypt and in the oases, and the dried leaves ex bited, | l 
though at least 3437 years old, closėly resemble those of the fe 
cent plant in texture and nervation. Alcea ficifolia is not indigem ; 
ous in Egypt, but is commonly cultivated there, and its ocom 
assertion of Blackwall, viz., that it is effected by means of 
dation of a gummy nature; Herr Max Bertels show e 
made by A. Bosjesman, and spoke of the coexistence of 
power of design, with a low state of culture in other res 2 
men, Eskimo, etc.; Herr W. Peters described three new S| i 
Hyperolius and one of Limnodytis, batrachians from 908 aes 
rica. pecimens eok 
W. Eichter spoke upon © 
apan; Herr W. Peters described a new 
marked variety of the ophidian genus Macroprotom™ 
rocco. 
