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The following are the Officers of the Detroit Meeting :— Presi- 

 dent, J. E. Hilgard, of Washington ; Vice-President, Section A, 

 H. A. Newton, of New Haven ; Vice-President, Section B, J. W. 

 Dawson, of Montreal ; Chairman of Chemical Subsection, S. TV. 

 Johnson, of New Haven ; Permanent Secretary, F. W. Putnam, 

 of Salem ; General Secretary, S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge ; Sec- 

 retary of Section A, S. P. Langley, of Alleghany, Pa. ; Secretary 

 of Section B, N. S. Shaler, of Newport, Ky. ; Treasurer, W. S. 

 Vaux, of Philadelphia. 



Standing Committee .-—Past Presidents, Wm. B. Rogers, of Bos- 

 ton ; Joseph Henry, of Washington ; Benjamin Peirce, of Cam- 

 bridge ; James D. Dana, of New Haven ; James Hall, of Albany ; 

 Alexis Caswell, of Providence ; Stephen Alexander, of Princeton ; 

 Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia ; F. A. P. Barnard, of New York ; J. 

 S. Newberry, of New York ; B. A. Gould, of Boston ; T. Sterry 

 Hunt, of Boston ; Asa Gray, of Cambridge ; J. Lawrence Smith, 

 of Louisville; Joseph Lovering, of Cambridge; the President, 

 Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and Treasurer of the Detroit Meet- 

 ing. As Officers of the Hartford Meeting, John L. LeConte, of 

 Philadelphia ; C. S. Lyman, of New Haven ; A. C. Hamlin, of 

 Bangor ; from the Association at large, Six Fellows to be elected 

 on the first day of the meeting. 



Local Committee:— Chairman, His Excellency, Governor John 

 J. v B;igley ; Treasurer, William A. Butler, Esq. ; Secretary, Fred- 

 erick Woolfenden, Esq. ; also special sub-committees on Recep- 

 tion, Rooms, Excursions, Entertainment, Printing, etc. 



Bulletin No 2, second series of Hayden's geological and geo- 

 graphical Survey of the Territories was issued May 14th by the 

 Department of the Interior. It contains important papers as 

 follows:— I, Monograph of the genus Leucosticte, Swainson ; or, 

 Gray-crowned Purple Finches, by Robert Ridgway. II, The cra- 

 nial and dental characters of Geomydae, by Dr. Elliott Coues. 

 HI, Relations of Insectivorous Mammals, by Theodore Gill. IV, 

 Report on the Natural History of the United States Geological 

 and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1874, by Ernest 

 Ingersoll. 



This was followed on the next day by a third Bulletin, being a 

 "Topographical and Geological Report on the San Juan Country" 

 by A. D. Wilson, the topography illustrated by a map ; with a 



