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J. E. Dawson, struck a sympathetic cord, when he 

 stood up and held forth : " On the economical effects of 

 using cheap gas for gas-meters with a description of 

 the Apparatus for producing it" 



E. Pickwell, treated : " Of Continuous Door-Lochs 

 and Foot-Boards for Railway Carriages." 



Professor Seely : " On the Evolution of the Plesiau- 

 sorus." 



Professor Thorpe : " On Chemical action between 

 Solids." 



The Papers on Geology and Geography were parti- 

 cularly interesting. 



A scientist from our side of the water, Professor 

 0. C. Marsh, ol Yale College, in a remarkable paper, 

 held forth on the characteristics of the Archoeopteryx > 

 an extinct spicies, a Jurassic Bird, half serpent, half 

 Bird ; of which three specimens only were known to 

 exist : one, at Philadelphia, an other, at Munich, a 

 third, in the British Museum : his explanations of the 

 structure of this gigantic individual of the genus 

 Struthyonidae seemed to rivet the attention of the 

 European savants. I felt inclined to say " Welldone " 

 America ! when Professor Marsh sat down amidst hearty 

 applause. A Paris Professor, Cyparissos Stephanos 

 discoursed in French on an abstruse mathematical 

 question : " Sur les faisceaux de forme biquadratique 

 binaire ayant une mSme Jacobienne." 



Professeur Halpen : " Sur une classe a" Equations 

 differ entielles line'aires." 



T. E. Clark, B. S. C. : " On glacial Section at York" 



Ladies and Gentlemen. — Our varied, our jaunty little 

 excursion from home must now draw to a close. 



The time has come for me to bid adieu to the pleasant, 

 hospitable, cultured old land beyond the sea, and to 

 commit myself to the safe-keeping of Capt. Button and 

 his good ship " Sardinian." Westward Ho ! will now be 

 our motto. 



Though I have revelled, whilst abroad in many im~. 



