New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-28

| ia and tha,k s.Oye, those oi 80 noab'''n ims'
stonc low b'i us, oIly Oc-Ir n ia Tag gnen.aly
cordi, on Of -olaed i.etl and so,nes, sf'r;iDg in
theu.aeves no clue 20 the cag-'s which may have
operated in their des.ru'ton and esvns u. ~ con-
lecture whether they iei victims 70 c'sea-e " 70 an
injection OF heated water or rOxiOus gfses mo the
| ocean IN which they hved For tie wsnt OF aathOri-
tl,- aud foreign -pe linens, VI. W. hes no. attempted
20 IDENTITY the iossis with similar ones OF Europe.
Still W. msy res-onaby expect thai when e! tae-e
collections have been fully COlsted, many new s2ecss
viii be- aldea to those aresdy known ~ occur 10 the
upper pal,oz ,c. The fOeslls presented we-e only
-nsl paIt Of those which had been collected ID tcat
| region.
Prof AGIsslz rose to speak upon the tos,is exbi)-
tied by Mr WOrther. IL spoke Of the tat .hat Two
varietes of ia remains ere found belonging % TIE
s6me eeoogics PERIOD The difference. found IN these
pIoScs 20 him the fact tha. they must have lived Ia
waters Of different nstre-in O,her words tina. one
variety beongeo 20 fr,sh or bTa:ksh water and the
other to salt Thee specimens brought by Mr. Wor-
then precisely Ike those OF Ireland. TAoe brought
here by Mr. NewbeTy yesterc are ike those found
noar Glasgow in Scotland. Mr.. Wort1ens he holds 70
he uuy marine; i is GOV 20 be found awe only ss
Marie fih, ard in certain pats OF the Pdchc These
fishes lave 10 skeleton, and OF course after desth.
uIees preserved 10y some extra ordinary copuncture 0i
Ccnn tsnces, viii entirely dScay exec? ?tug the teetH,
ard lo,iby bone or two, and the two hard spines OF
the dosa I'm. OF these spnts he found two specimens
among these remains Though he had su0ie the best
collection Of fossil fishes in Elrope yet this one affords
the means Of beginning the study anew and gslrilg
new information upon the subject. These fragments
viii enable the ne urast 10 60 further in reconstruct
ng the animal than all the Ithers. In one of these
sIeclmens he til ds two teeto connected in such man
her a. TO show hn that marks shich be has formerly
published as pioyDg the existence OF two species are
in fact those Ci sing one. lie thought 's coll-c-
ton so fre and valuable as 10 be worth having every
A. cimen carefully depicted The LsPsi0sterus Of this
lection is now found alive 0ny IN the river. OF Sec-
Cca and a. there CesceLds into the salt w2-er
lie nies that these must also have been lresh water
tlh.
DR.. NEwEERRY mentioned that in his collection
shown yesterday, and the one under consideration
there is but specimen common tO both, AMI that
Il geological positong of the two are such a. lG} 10
COZ firm The IDEAS of Prof. gassiZ.
pr. NEwrFRHY followed with "Generalities of the
." Ge ology of Oregon and Northern CaliforniI
| Prof AGAssH said that when he studied the lcsh
sssil hshes the divisions 10 .he carbonerous screen.
tines had not been made; but nov vs. are learning
hom tie discoveries in AIerca that different species
Of fish belonged TO different geological horizons.
Prof pAw sos read short paper ces.slbng piece
OF fossil wood found in Gaspe in which the Original
iuctuic sl visible, and urged the Importance OF
| preserving every such specimen found a. means o;
! finally arriving TO a knowledge OF the arbo.eseence
Of ancient geological era.. Ills specimen was stated
ss being allied TO cOne-bemiug trees, aod was
especially inere sting from having been iound IN q
rock Of the Devonen periCd aud being the frs: spec
Of wood with ,ruciure found III rocks OF that age
in America.
Mr.. ARTHUR ScHoTr closed the session with a paper
of Geological observations on the Ph o-gocanIc slope
Of tie Mountains of Souor, near tue boundary.
SECTION or ZOOLOGY, BOr,Ni AND tTHsoL00Y
Pres ANDFBSOS in the char.
Mr.. VI. Il. ScHOoLcRAFT read paper or the struc-
! ture of the Algonquin langusge III which he dset
uIon lis extent its word-builciug power, and its lack
OF distractions They piled up sentences into words,
ard the detheness of the lang usge was 20 imperative
tLat an IIoian cOulG not say l love Only De mIs-
add to il the particular object 0i hls passion. Ihey
| generally bult their verbs fIom nouns. Ora.oiy ws
the great accomplishment 70. whici the aspiring Indian
ttrove.
DR.. GInroy observed thst the English snd Greek
carita alp abets were formed OF line found in TIE L.
al angle which We had in the A, and cr;le When
appeared in the O. The word eternal in Greek was
| al: the Hebrew word for God was succession OF
vowes. Was there anything like this IN the Indian
| language?
Mr.. Scroo1cR.rr sail that they Lad word, used
only on the hCo K oCcasODs; Il Was dfcc3N anu eiiy
| the pres's gave Il.
| Mr.. J. H. COTrIS read paper on so-called Human
Peiiiiacons He said that edipOcea which was torDed
by the change OF hbrlne was sometimes ms aken iot
pehifaction. Adipccea vas So much hgher wa'er
that il foeted if the gave filed with water and
when boGie. were found tn. ned after burial 1t might
| geLersly be referreo TO TIN. ca lie.
Pref. HoR-fORD gave another explanation OF the
| formation of aoipocee. The fbrne Was Dissolved and
washed away, leaving nothing but the fatty mstter.
lie heard last Winter of an rstance in which ne bones
of an irebt hac been changed into phosphorus, the
llps ard oxygen OF the phosphats Of lime, OF which
bone we've gre at sure cODposed )e nS extracted
leaving July the phosphorus The Prof ssor attributed
| this, however, 10 another cause.
| DR.. GIBBoS noticed a in which the body Of
exhibited H. and ancther il which the rig Of the suG
| wes etaic.
Prof AGAssIz tLen gave bis third lecture on Animal
Development. He said thet hardly thirty year. ago,
Sciwan ssccrtained that tie Tissues of the animal body
identical with thoe ofpants and that all orgar
lied beings were made up o. cells The investigation
Of these cells had been the chief jet OF the physi
! coogsts since thst discovery. Some twelve
years ago. tie possibility suggested Of there being
animals as wei M plants composed of but one cell.
Nothing could be Of more importance than an nsigh,
INTO the true CIR acer of cels. II It could be shown
that single cell might be organized being, capa-
bic of reproducing itself and having as precise
characters any other being Of higher structure, tns
importance OF cells in the development of animals which
grow to be composed off large number of cells, mast be
considered 8s much greater than had been thus f.
Botansts have proved that there celed plants
| An English boianst whose name il almost unpro-
rouucesbe fo, me- Dwight, has shown this very beau
tiully Alex. Brown, of Berlin, has published another
I6Ier upon tie subject and j, longer mat
ter Of ooubt Similar invess at ions have been tracei
by others IN the animal kir gdom out they have gone
only 'aT as TO prove that there are animals which
ext ibt pLoDomens sln Lar to oneceled plants. In
fortunately The -tigations Of Sebod and Others who
have mace ,his stuCy, have been confined to beings
which are still not asce,taDed TO be plants or anm.,
! cetrely. The irvesti6 cations Of Brown have shown
theta number of the beings which ca inf -oriss
bc.Crg to Of the four ca.ees OF amin ste ure
AL the Aneltcra Of FL h'enberg h.ve been shown by
Brown 20 be ole celed Al4y Only tl1se are left
which have mouth and ar alinentary canal. But I
lave ascetained tnst some Of these tho embyos
OF Pa1ara ard Dastoina, which make them the
tmbyos Of worms and the presumption is tina, all of
t.tm bic the enbryos of WORMS. This took away
a the iniu-oia, tie Ro teIs ahd been shown 20 be
1ustacta by Liebg and by Dana in this county from
enoIyoogicale g. ideDce Nha nen the one.celed
bniuols EFF They were the Enterodea. We must
recur 10 the EGG. IN some animals the yolk digite.
frst halves and then by continued process of SUB
oiyisicn become cells, embryonic cells. In other
mas this segmeDtston was confined 10 portion OF the
egg. In some of these. in the fIog this regmenta
ton revoved upon itself. 1t in the ga.teropo.s
Tbs mot wss that of the young animal itselr. Ii
was ike the revolution Of solar bodies. The frs. mo-