New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-28
AMERICAN sCIBHTIFYO SOCIETIES.

aners were,r resented at this meeting te business
consisting chiefly Of announcements of donations o.
books ami specimens.
WORCESTER. Mass: NATURAL History SOCIETY
Feb IA paper was read by Mrs. Baker upon tte
position Of Prof Agassiz in relation t. the develop
ment-1heory of Darwin
SAIEN. MASS: ESSEX INSTITUTE: Feb. 2.--in |
accosntvas given by the Secretary OF coliec'lon
of Cersinental paper currency. Photographs oil |
blacktieh were exhibited,
B,1tn,oEE. M,RYI,cp FPIDIs ILLOGICAL FoCI- |
Erv, Feb 8-Dr. Stuart presented paper o. the
Germ Theory in which he took the ground that
ZymcF diseases were induced by germs oil animals
and plants carried by water
BpgFMo: SOCIETY ~ NkTUr Al SCIENCE Feb.
y3--6nnual meeting satisfactory report was pre-
ser4d of the condition of the library of the museum,
and the anticpsiiOn expressed OF many Nalua-
ole additions during tue coming year.
ALBANY, n. Y: ALBANY INSTITUTE: Feb. 3.-hr
NV. l.. Pruyn was chosen President and Mr. Leon
ard Kipp Corresponding Secretary. The report on
the condition of the Society and its finances for 1873
was read and also communication by Prof. George
poelter on late discoveries IN Musical Science
BosToN. MASS: INSTITUTE or TECHNOLOGY:
Jan. 29-Mr II. w Fuller in the chair. paper
was read by Mr.. Albert K. Mansfield of Lowell on
the Theory of Turbines. N answer 10 paper IN Jhe
fpeycqp 5ri;,aa on the value and manner Of apply
ing the Francis formula for the How OF water over
weiTs.
ST. PAUL: MINNEsOIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION:
Feb 3.-The annual meeting of this Association was
held, with moderately large attendance from dii-
feren parts of the State large part of the first day
of the meeting was oecrped in the discussion OF the
question AS 10 whether female doctors should be adj
mitted TO membership and the proposition was EN-
phaticaly decided IN the negative.
HELENA: HIsTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTANA:
Jan. 15Ibis society, which has been In existence
for eight years has lately experienced serious loss
in the destruction of its archives and library by fire.
Al its meeting on the 10Th of January, resolutions
were passed requesting the publishers of newspapers
and magazines the Territory TO present copies OF
their works for the sake of renewing the historical
collections OF the institution.
DAVENPORT: Iowa ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: Jan. |
SO-The President. Bg. c. G. Parry, i'll the chair.
A paper was read by DR.. FarquharsOn on the Pecu-
liar CTauial and other Characteristics of the Pre- |
historic Races III Europe and America. IN which he |
endeayOred to show that the crania obtained from
the mounds at Albany. Illinois, those of the |
true Mound Builders" The COMMITTEES on Photo
graphs exhibited series OF IL prints 0l seven |
different skulls and reported that the photographs
were nearly ready for distribution in exchange with
other societies.
BosToY: Ew-ENGLAND HIsTORICAL AND GENEA- |
LOGICAL SOCIETY Feb. 4-Monthy meeting, the |
President, Marshall Z. Wilder, in the chair. Mr. A.
B. AlcOtt presented communication in reference to
some of the authors Of Concord, Mass, referring
especially to Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hawthorne,
Henry Thoreau, VIM. Ellegy Charming and others.
A communication was read by Mr. VIM. II. Whit
more. setting forth the great Inconvenience of the
terms GTeat-Uaudfather great great grandfather,
etc. and proposing "A substitute to adopt in gen
ealogical works, thu old Engsh-Frcnch law terms,
"ayle' for grandfather "besayle' for great-grand-
ia her. etc.
SAN Francisco, CMFOBNIA: ACADEMY OF SCI
FNCEs: Feb. "A meeting held for the first
time in the new rooms of the Society, in what was
formerly the First Congregational Church of
San Francisco; President Davidson in the chair.
DIR. Blake exhibited cast of skull taken out from
the Ophr Nine on the Comstock lode. This pre-
scented certain peculiaritcs in the presence of large
interpariotal bone, heavy supercary ridges avery
low forehead and great development of the p0ste-
rOT portion Of the skull; peculiar structure of the
cavity for the articulation Of the lower jaw, and |
great development of the processes for the attach
ment Of muscles. The original skull was covered |
with thin metallic scale. deposited bv water, and |
Is in the possession of Prof. Whitney VINO is
gagged IN investigating its pecularities.
Boston: SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: Feb. T.
MIR. J. 4. Allen read a paper on the Geographical |
Variation in Mammals, as illustrated especially by |
the Squirrels The law of decrease in size of indi-
vduals of the species from north, southwark
and of the increase in size Of pepheral parts in the
direction. and also of the increase of intensity
III coloratOn from dry 10 more humid regions was
fully shown by a large series of specimens Prof
Z. Il. Hitchcock read paper on the Heidelberg
rocks of New-ilampsbre which he identified with
the lower Heidelberg series by the discovery of
fossils Mr.. s. II. Scudder exhibited
two collections of paintings of American insects by
John Abbot; one lately purchased aud presented to
the Society, and the other the gift Of Prof. Asa
Gray; aud gave an account of the various cOllec-
lions OF these paintings now in existence the largest
Of which is now In the British Museum.
MADISON: WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS
AND LETTERS Feb. 10-The annual meeting occu-
pied three days, in of which several papers
were presented. Among these we now mention the
following: BY the President on the Life and Ser
wees of the late Rt. Rev. Bishop Armtage 10y Prof
J. f. Davies, Molecular Worthless and the Action
If Magnetism on Light; on the Naming of America,
" Prof J. d. Butler; on Records of Marriages, by
Rev. +. NJ. Holland Ranks and Glasses among
he Anglo-Saxons by Prof. w. F. Allen on the De-
,ivaton of the Word Church, by DIR. Fenlne;
IN the Age of the Copper-bearing Rocks of
nent Of Years of lore, by Dr. Andrews
# Chicago; on the Strength of Materials by |
Capt. John Nadir, U. S. engineers; on Magnetic
SsGtsry P5oIarl5atl9n, by Pr9f. Davies; on the
University; on the Amount Of Arsenic Absorbed by |
-he Human Liver; on the Philosophy IF Evolution,
py Or 8 H. Carpentes. and other papers Of nofe or
less interest
BosroS: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCI
ENcEs; Feb. lO-Prof r. Sterry HINT, after giving
an account of Mr.. Ransome's process of consoNdat-
ing SAND INTO artificial stone by means of silica e of
soda transformed by double accommodation into si-
cate OF lime and of the Improvement through whi III
Inc soda was also hxed in an Dsouble state bv IN
Production OF double siilcaie of Inns and soda 4,
proceeded to consider The subject of the cement in
iatural sandstones and puddingstones. He called
Ittentlon TO the fact that DR.. Hayes more than %
ears ago ascertaned that the strong cement Of the
loXbury cOnRlOnerate was si]icate of lima with
ONE Dsgnesia, probably also with some Notch
aus being OF the same nature as that of the artif-
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