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Acting-Governor Van Zandt has appointed George H. Wilson 



scientific survey of the State of Rhode 1 Island, in place°of Hon. 

 _ Rowland Hazard, declined. 



Prof. M. Foster and A. G. Dew-Smith lately read a paper 

 before the Royal Society "On the behavior of the hearts of mol- 



Prof. Asa Gray, at a meeting of the French Academy held 

 on the 10th March, was elected an honorary member in the depart- 

 ment of science. 



Just as we are going to press, we learn that the bill for the 

 scientific survey of Massachusetts failed to pass the House, but 

 the vote (nearly a tie vote) in its favor was so large as to indicate 



The movement in Ma-a. hu^ IN ha> extended to Connecticut and 

 Rhode Island, while the recently published report of Prof. Hitch- 

 cock, as state geologist of New Hampshire, is a credit to that state. 

 We look confidently to the institution, within the next year or two, 

 of resurveys of nearly all the New England states. 



It seems that our paragraph taken from a Swiss paper rc-anling 

 the block of granite designed to cover the grave of Agassiz, con- 

 tained some errors. The bowlder in reality came from the terminal 

 moraine. Judging from its position when removed, it must have 

 formed part of the median moraine, and have been about 7,000 

 feet higher up where Agassiz lived on the Aar glacier. It prob- 

 ably came originally from the "Abschwung." 



The University of Wisconsin at Ann Arbor has received an 

 appropriation of $80,000 from the legislature for building a Sci- 

 ence Hall. 



We have received from Mr. C. F. Dennet an interesting pam- 

 phlet entitled "Vegetable Fishes," with special reference to the 



