Recent Proceedings of Societies. 



Torry botanical club, New York. 



Feb. 9. — Dr. J. S. Newberry gave an account of 

 the fossil flora of the New Jersey cretaceous clays, 

 as far as known up to date, illustrated by the draw- 

 ings thus far made. New material is constantly 



coming in, much of it new to science. Mr. Dudley 



exhibited specimens of unusually large hickory-nuts 

 (Carya alba, Nutt). supposed to be abnormally de- 

 veloped. Mr. Merrill showed a fungus of the 



genus Coprinus, collected in the Hibernia mine, 

 New Jersey, five hundred feet from the surface. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Engineers' club, St. Louis. 

 Feb. 3. — M. L. Holman, Commercial brick for 

 engineering purposes ; C. M. Woodward, The theory 

 of ammonia refrigerators. 



Entomological club, Cambridge. 

 Feb. 12. — E. Hay ward, On the male of Dytiscus. 



Philosophical society, Washington. 

 Feb. 13. — J. H. Kidder, Historical sketch of deep- 

 sea temperature observations : E. B. Elliott, Annual 

 profit to banks on national bank-note circulation ; 

 Quantity of U. S. subsidiary silver coin existing and 

 in circulation ; Asaph Hall, The new star in the neb- 

 ula of Andromeda. 



Publications received at Editor's Office, Feb. 8-i6. 



Bourke, J. G. An Apache campaign in the Sierra Madre. 

 New York, Scribner, t886. 6-!-ii2 p., illustr $i. 



De Morgan, A, the late. Newton: his friend : and his niece. 

 Ed. by his wife and A. C. Ranyard. London, Elliot Stock, 

 1885. 6+161 p. 8°. 5s. 6d. 



Greely, A. W. Three years of arctic service, an account of 

 the Lady Franklin Bay expedition of 1881-84. New York, Scrib- 

 ner, 1885. 2 vols. 25+428, 14-I-444 p. 8°. (Subscription only.j 



Lancaster, A. Tableaux-resumes des observations meteorolo- 

 giques faites a Bruxelles pendant une periode de cinquante annees. 

 Part i.: Temperature de l'air. Bruxelles, Hayez, 1886. 79 p. 16 . 



Prestwich, J. Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphi- 

 cal. In 2 vols. Vol. i.: Chemical and physical. Oxford, Claren- 

 don pr., 1886. 24+477 6 pi., illustr. 8°. (New York, Mac- 

 millan, $6.25 ) 



Roig y Torres, R. Memoria acerca de la primera exposicion 

 internacional de electricidad celebrada en Europa. Barcelona, 

 La casa provitu ial de caridad, 1885. 12+64 p. 8°. 



Rred, A. Z. Evolution versus involution, a popular exposi- 

 tion of the doctrine of true evolution, a refutation of the theories 

 of Herbert Spencer, and a vindication of theism. New York, 

 Pott, 1885 12+273 P- 8°. $2.50. 



Scribner's statistical atlas of the United States. New York, 

 Scribner, 1883. 120 p , 151 maps, illustr. f°. 



Servo-Bulgarian war, maps to illustrate the, with abstract of 

 the treaty of Berlin, etc. Edinburgh, Johnston, 1885. 8°. 



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