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III. Coues, ELlìott and Yarrow. Notes on the naturai history of fort Macon, N. C, and vici- 

 nity. N. 5 (cont.) . — Meehan. Irritable or sensitive stamens. — Leidy. Notice of a Tetrarhynchus. — 

 Me Quillen. Eecovery of ali the faculties in a pigeon from wich four-fifths of the upper portion of 

 the cerebrum had been removed. — Gresson. Descriptions of Ichneumonids, chiefly from the Pacific 

 slope of the United States and British N. America. — Ghapman. On the structure of the Gorilla. — 

 Slearns. Description of a new species of Dolabella, from the gulf of California, with remarks on 

 other rare or little-konwn species from the sanie region. — Ranci. On a belt of Serpentine and 

 Steatite in Eadnor Township. Delaware Co., Pa. — Griffith. Aspidium aculateum in Pennsylvania. 



tProceedings of the americaa Àcademy of arts and sciónces. New series voi. VI. 

 Boston, '1879. 8.° 



Agassiz. On the young stages of bony fishes. — Mills. Experiments upon Piezometers used 

 in hydraulic investigations. — Jackson and Fielcl. Eesearches on the substituted benzyl compounds. — 

 Agassiz. The development of Lepidosteus. — Dolbear. Eesearches in telephony. — Langley. On certain 

 reniarkable groups in the lower spectrum. — kl. On the temperature of the sun. — Trowbridge 

 and Hill. On the heat produced by the rapici magnetization and demagnetization of the magnetic 

 metals. — Trowbridge. Methods of measuring electric currents of great strength ; together with a 

 comparison of the Wilde, the Gramme and the Siemen's machines. — Lesquereux and James. Descri- 

 ptions of some new species of North American mosses. — Jacques. Distributions of heat in the 

 spectra of" various sources of radiation. — Morley. On the limits of accuracy in measurements with 

 the microscope. — Rogers. On the limits of accuracy in measurements with the telescope and the 

 microscope. — Agassiz. Preliminary report on the Echini of the exploring expedition of H. M. S. 

 « Challenger » Sir. C. Wyville Thomson, chief of Civilian Staff. — Watson. Contributions to american 

 botany. 1. Eevision of the North American liliacese. 2. Descriptions of some new species of North 

 American plants. — Dolbear. A new receiving telephone. — Jackson and White. Eesearches on the 

 substituted benzyl compounds. 



tProceedings of the american association for the advancement of science. Voi. XXVII 

 1878. Salem, 1879. 8.° 

 Thursion. Friction and its laws, as determined by recent experiments. — Michelson. Expe- 

 rimental determination of the velocity of light. — Rees. Outline of the work done by the fort 

 Worth solar eclipse party. — Baker. An improved method of ringing a beli in an exhausted 

 receiver. — Osborne. On the construction of a sensitive wind-vane. — Id. Wind-vane rotations. — 

 ld. On the importance of meteorological observations in vertical section of the atmosphere, with 

 the suggestion of means for their systematic accomplishment. — Nipher. On the determination of 

 the true rainfall , by elevated gauges. — Edison. On the use of the tasimeter for measuring the 

 heat of the stars and of the sun's corona. — Id. The sonorous voltameter. — Barker. On the 

 results of the spectroscopic observation of the solar eclipse of July 29, 1878. — Id. On a new 

 method of measuring the pitch of a tunning fork. — Weyde. On a modifìed forni of telephone, 

 intended to be used as a sensitive electroscope for the detection of feeble currents. — Walling. 

 The relation of adhesion to horizontal pressure in mountain dynamics. — Id. Some indications of 

 recent sensitiveness to unequal pressure in the earth's crust. — Me Gee. On the complete series of 

 superficial forrnation in Northeastern Jowa. — Todd. Eichthofen's theory of the loess , in the light 

 of the deposits of the Missouri. — Whitllesey. Ancient glacial action, Kelly's Island, Lake Erie. — 

 Smith. The iron ores of Alabama , with special reference to their geological relations. — Arthur. 

 On some characteristics of the vegetation of Jowa. — Whilman. Changes preliminary to cleavage 

 in the egg of Clepsine. — Riley. The philosophy of the movements of the Eocky mountain locust. — 

 Id. A new source of wealth to the United States. — Id. Notes on the life-history of the blister- 

 beetles and on the structure and development of Hornia. — Id. On the larvai characteristics of 

 corydalus and chauliodes and on the development of corydalus cornutus. — ld. Biological notes on 

 the Gall-making Pemphiginae. — Perkins. On the osteology of Sciuropterus volucella, Geoff. — 

 Forbes. Notes on the development of Amia. — Belt. Note on the discovery of a human skull in the 

 drift near Denver, Colorado. — Morgan. Description of a bliff-house on the mancos river of Colorado, 



