New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-25

today i tbe rneetlnr of the Ontario chronological
Society. which has a branch III TINS cry.
OF course there were addresses that
of William Saunders of Ontario. the president and
editor of the bug organ of the Dominion. being
notably good. The meeting attracted many Of the
eminent entomOlogsts Of the United States, like
Professor c. V. Riley of WASHINGTON. DR.. Hagan, Of
Cambridge. Dr. J. Linteur. New-York State Ento-
mologist. DR.. j. II. Comstock, Of Ithaca. and b.
Picknan, OF Maine
After the Ontario organization hal transacted It's
business the wise men both sides of the line
spontaneously united rs scientific brotherhood
and began to exchange opinions, exhibit
specimens and have a happy chronological
time. This imprompiu session was so
pleasant that the scientists agreed
TO meet rs club the day before the next annual
session of the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, with determination TO ENJOY the
company Of the bugs without beng distracted by
formal addresses or rules elections of officers or
resolutions of thanks or coincidence or any other
form OF dissipation to which highly organized as
sociations are addicted
The day was pas ed without any sensation, and
good deal of work was done the various depart
ments. The rooms of the section of Histology and
Microscopy seemed to he to-day the centre toward
which floating science eravitated most readily. 1t
w here that DR.. Carpenter Of London. was lectur-
ING on Angular Aperture IN Relation TO Biological
Investigations" and the wise men and women all
I listened while the Doctor explained that a
dissovnC lens of wide angle is not good for gen
er Il biological work one Of more moderate angie
and higher defining power He made a strong point
against working lens beyond its power. not only
because il was unsatisfactory but because II IN
lures the eve by making high eye-pieces n,ce'-
sary. He argued that the extreme
angle is only desirable for special
work and adduoed among other proofs of the cor
rectness OF his position the exact Mathematical
demonstrations Of Professor Abbey. 1t is TO be
feared that several wise men made attempt
to appear absorbed in the discussion account
of the Doctors fame rather than because they
enjoyed it as an intellectual treat. The working
microscoplsts, however. 10 "A man were on the same
side Of the question with the eminent stranger.
The eliminating social event Of the session was
the reception by President Dawson of the
associates in the Peter Redpath Museum,
AID the formal opening Of the latest gift
TO the COLLEGE The building is a handsome one,
and its interior finish Of butternut and cherry is
very tasteful. The collection is a really valuable
one. although the enormous mastodon sit
ting on his launches IN the centre OF looks ike
mesOzoic Joke.
Among the papers read to-day were those Of Pro-
fessor Samuel Lockwood, of Freehold, Y. j.. on
" Tie Mastodon in Ncw-JerSey"; Professor Meehan
The Fertilization of Yucca y; Professor Elliott
on International Time -: Professor Breweron The
Apparent Size of Magnihed Objects ". l.. Stevens
on Vision by Electric Spark -; Joseph Letolie. of
Ottawa" a Review Of subjects Of Atmospheric Cur
rents Electricity and Gases. with view to Practl-
cal Aerial NavIgation'by Balloons" and Professor
Mupan on Variations IN Nature 4
paper on How Physical La shculd
be Taught, was read bV Vice President
Mendenhall. Professor Trowbridge. of Harvard
University deliyrred an I'd rass on Ihe iHPoT
Science" VcoPresident OK. Of San Francisco. read
a paper on Geography and &colorv Topography
of the Rockies and SIerra'. Professor Han READ an
address on " Shells OF America"
DISCOVERIES Oh MAsTODoNs N NEw-JERsEY.
Professor Lockwood. in his paper gave the par
ticuars Of his discovery and elimination Of the re-
mains Of a mastodon IN a peat meadow about two
miles west of Freehold y. J. He had previously
discovered IN peat-bog near the same
vilIage a fossil beaver-dam, which enabled him to
detect resemblances, and thus 10 suspect that
this mastodon had been actually buried by beavers.
This suspicion became IN induction warranred by
the facts which the digging disclosed, for frag-
ments of beaver sticks We're found living across the
neck of the skeleton. which lay on is right side,
the tusls being detected under the neck The re-
mains Law on the hard pan beneath the peat. 1t
was shown that the monster died on the right bank
Of the ancient stream. that the beavers aiter"ard
damned it, and the pond covered the skeleton. In
due time the pond was abandoned and the dam wall
as it sunk down by decay drained the pond. A. ITS
area decreased the Of swamp increased. and a
growth Of sphagnum peat buried TIA. bo lcs The
drainage finally became such that meadow re-
suited.
The writer mentioned three instances Of his fluid
ing III Monmouth County mastod0n relics
on the coast ! vice at long intervals
were teeth obtained out AZ sci from Long Branch
in the other instance part OF "a tusH and other
bones were got from an ancient buried swamp about
fifteen miles south Of Long Branch, winch swamp
was unc vered by severe storm from the sea
The point, made In the paper were: 81 The pre-
seutatOn tOr the first tlme OF the evidence OF the
mastOiOu for the suDslcng of par of the east I'm
coa-t-line of the United states. - he long life
range OF the ma-tOdOn. Beginning wlth the
Floceue it shown that tAe individual ID
question IVlng ut "A period Wei up
iEtO very recent o0lle time. I3I NE hd'io'oL
came I'm with the great extinct fossil beaver Wulch
il outIved. and became contemporary win the
modern beaver. a. The mas DION lived 10 be con-
teuporar, with the American autoeh homie nau,
an 3, probably as tOol supply before MN lhIs
BcheInoth mel ed away.
Dr Lockwood sad tuat the tu,5s which were
pounds of ivory but these aud the bones eXceIting
four teeth, literally crHmbied away on reaching
the ar, to his iueXpresaiole grief
A SCHEME OF ANIIIE POLoGY.
A paper was also read by Professor Ma
son, Of the Smithsonian Institution, in
explanation Of A sch me Of An
thropolozy." All sciences have their several
stages of development Steps IN a complete system
Authrop0logy is no exc p-loa TO tic rule. Taking
the -four Greek WORDS geua origin OrGghe writ
ing; logos science; and R0as) law. % Indicate tAe
variou, parts Of this science of man, the speaker
by means of series Of technical terms,
some Of which were new, aimed to show
each student whers he stood in relation to
the whole 1t was not urged that the