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Ginj Ian or gei principle, regulating the distriba- 111 time .mil (pace, of American earthqoab udeavoriiig U> answer thie question. attention may be direi • tain papers leading to alizations, ou II i by the pre* •nt writer, at varioui times, chiefly to the A \ \ ( ; ami published in their Without specif) ing their generalizations may be ■ ader mori iutelligible the i. in. irk- .in Unericau carthquaki I Tbe earth deriving its existence • on li nuance h ■ habitable plan nerally think) from the sun, ii tl„it t,.,.. should still be de- pendent on solai manifestations mid tli>'ir modifying iiifloen II. As light, heat, eleclri ■ii. chemi ami net ■y arc all convertible mode cnlar motion, ami we derive our lighl and heat from the sun, it - able that we derivi din lly or in- tlv, all th< ,rius oi motion including TV Co •Pat mologicnl Impi IM. In confirmation ments, lei us examine the relation <>( continents, in their configuration, to I rotation and that of revolu- tion or progression oi the earth in l»*-r orbit [f we pass two great circles through the poles "f rotation, and make one of them cul also verticallv through the Caspian sea, and the other he at riglil angles to c 1 1 • - f< ntly tout- bin a South Amer- ica in about the meridian of Pi Sud oui globe divided into four segments dike the four quart an orangoor apple) by lines of d< si. .ii. purattel to tht aat$ of rotation ; and each segment will In. found to sontain a donble continent, pro' msider the isl.-s ,,f the Pacific as indieating the summits ol mountains in a sunken continent Thus one (the central segment) contains Buropi and Al'ri. ,.|. ,m !!„. „.,.»,_ \,,r(l| and Booth Wn third, on the Ilia and Australasia : a fourth, opposite Europe and Africa, may be •iair.1 North ami South I IV. Bui beside this plain shrinkage, al the division lines of four and elevation of continents bmughl about an inclination ,.i thi rotation (amounting at present to about 23 PACIFIC SCIENCE MONTHLY. grees) to the axis of revolution., trans- lation or progression of the earth's orbit, usually called the plane of the ecliptic, and traced on our globe as the apparent path of the sun. then the con- tinents, in the formation-- of their out- lines, assur/ied a trend at right angles to the plane of the ecliptic ; hence cor- responding with the axis of revolution". This fact, that continental outlines thus formed an angle of 23.j degrees with meridians, was pointed out, more than twenty years since by the writer in his r,ork "Key to the Geology of the Globe :" and it has since been admit- ted by various scientists, in their print- ed works, such as Professors Dana and Dawson. V. It was shown further, at a later period, that the eastern trends of con- tinents, beginning at the straits of Macassar and of Lorabok (where Wal- lace found a continental difference be- tween the flora and fauna each side of this region) and measuring, on the equator, 72 360-5 degree*, were respec- tively one fifth of the circumference of the globe apart : viz 1st. The east trend of Africa 72 degrees west of Ma- cassar (or of the east trend of Asia, including Japan) ; 2d — The east trend of South America 72 degrees west of Africa's east trend ; and 3d — The east trend of North America 72 degrees west of the east of South America! 4th — The east trend of South Oceanica (or of South Australasia near New Zealand) 72 degrees west of the east trend of North America. As these trends, running north 23^ degrees east, represent coast lines at right angles to certain phases of the ecliptic, so their mates, i.e. coast lines intersecting these eastern trends at the equator and running north 23£ degrees west, will be found at right angles to other phases of the ecliptic. It is true that the axis of the ecliptic is considered almost or quite invariable ; but its posi- tion relatively to the. axis of the earth's ro- tation is being constantly modified by the attraction of the moon and sun on the equatorial protuberance, giving rise to the precession of the equinoxes. It is further noticeable that each of these general continental trends is made up of minor trends, partly coin- cid:ng with the axis of rotation, partly with the axis of revolution. VI. Subsequent papers pointed out that &ach continent had a geographi- cal center ; and that a radius of 72-2-36 degrees would usually embrace nearly the whole of a continent, while a ra- dius of 23| degrees or 24 degrees would embrace, within its area, most of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic forma- tions ; while, outside of it, up to radius 36 degrees, would be chiefly Cenozoie area. VII. It was further shown that Monte Rosa, in Switzerland, is, as nearly as may be, the pole of the land hemisphere ; and that in shrinking the earth has conformed to the law of As- suring from that culminating point (of Miocene age) in radiating lines of 30 degrees apart, forming thereby such depressions as the east coast of Spain to Gulf of Genoa, the Adriatic to Ven- ice (intermediate elevation the Ape- nine*) ; further depressions radiating to Bay of Biscay, German Ocean, Bal- tic, &c. VIII. From Mallet's catalogue of 7,000 earthquakes, the generalization was pointed out that (by comparing places of simultaneous seismic action, or close approximation, in time) earth movements were observed to be fre- quently propagated along great circles : and further that while important /'.! ' m.y. Mowed iii inn.l- ■ Monte '■ itru in Kurupe ■ml. near I.al, in Nurtli A IX In lli'- pa pel ■ hi ' rth- quaki proved that the major- ity pasw (1 aim t-le which • ith 11 the •nl mid center of land, giving rise to the mors tland, which some- ictirred almost daily for rcle, which, pawing izai- iro. in Ne« Zealand, to the evei active in (lie ('ape \ I and, ig the north I south counties of near Uornliolen where ft laU number of ■Nairn. if the numb) while \ i ■iml chiefly along I'm continental bell which mn- paral- kppalachians, and livity in I' igraphy ol that chain, and still giving ! Ha. ill. .in. < '.linn which like Com] ! this mtinued -m on thi iting 2 i- the mate of v i at the equator, trending north - .. 1 trends north STo. S mark* the vi lifornia, ol the Sierra Nevada and ol Alaska, as well .-i- the eartb- lalifornia. portion »' ioh paasea through America, ol th ircle conatitu- ling the Asiatic eastern trend and ing the bell of lim in Kumtchatka, Japan, <£c. In North ica it Follows bain of lakes from • - Man- and tin- center of the continent Superior ; thence the belt he eai thquake region in n ■ i ili Madrid and other portion tbr Mi-- illey disturbed in 1811-12 in ili- W • -■ I udii - ii . belw< - Domingo, In South America il bich was desolate d al abon period N Madrid, - nth Amei i. a t" ili- portion u! Brazil. I he mate to Al stern continental I and iruporlani seismic bell which, ail. i- its circuil from vol .linn) ami from th •i|.h aved ishi - with ilie itOI ill. I" 1 l.-.U.i i :ii our Y- gion .in! running in arly | the earth's n PACIFIC SCIENCE MONTHLY eanic regions of South America as well as some in North America. It is the belt which beginning near Behring's straits traverses the earthquake re- sjimisof Pekin and Canton, the volca- noes of Sumatra and Java, passes along the volcanoes of Chili and Peru, Central America and close to Rainier, St. Helen's and other volcanoes of North America, thus also again tra- versing California. As regards the distribution in time, America has not been long enough discovered to give us sufficient ob- served data to prove a generalization ; but in a paper read before the A. A. A. S. the writer showed from Mallet's Cat- alogue that earthquakes were relative- ly much more numerous in Central Europe about the year 16(53, when the magnetic meridian corresponded with the geographical for that region, than those recorded for more westerly local- ities. Again it was shown that earth- quakes, about the year 1814, when the needle attained its greatest westing for middle Europe, were relatively more abundant in America, as well as re- latively fewer in Europe. Judging then from what we know up to this time, it seems probable that earthquakes would be somewhat more numerous about every 333 years from 1663 in Europe, (as that seems the per- iod of oscillation for the needle as shown in another paper) and about 666 years from 1814 in America, as that is apparently about the period which elapses from the time the magnetic needle occupies its greatest westing, until it oscillates east and returns again to its greatest westing, corresponding, it is thought by some, with great sun- spot periods modifying the earth's meteorology. The chief seismic move- ments in North America it may be seen from the above, if correct, may be expected along the line of the Appal- achians, or centrally through the val- ley of the Mississippi, or along the California and Oregon regions, of the Sierra Nevada. &c. Mr. Edison's Search. Thomas A. Edison says : "The great secret of doing away with the intermediary furnaces, boilers, steam engines and dynamos will be found, probably, within ten years . I have been working away at it for som« months and have got to the point where an apparently insurmountable obstacle confronts me. Working at the problem now seems to me very much like driving a ship straight for the face of precipice and then you come to grief picking yourself up and trying it again to-morrow. There is an opening in the barrier somewhere and some lucky man find it. I have got far enough in my investigations to know that the thing is possble. I can get quite a current now directly from tbe combustion of fuel. Jablochkofl* , tried his hand in the same thing some years ago, and so did some Germans, but the results were laboratory curi- osities only. I give myself five years to work at it and shall think myself lucky if I succeed in that time. "The unscientific world has no con- ception of what such a discovery would mean. I would pfct an end to boilers and steam engines ; it would make power about one-tenth as cheap as it is now ; it would enabled a steam- ship to cross the Atlantic at a nominal cost ; it would enable every poor man to run his own carriage ; it would revolutionize the industrial world." PACIFIl l MONTHLY. Heat mi, B a The ok) theory that beat ii a sob- the atoms of n abandoned, pari'.', i it could not explain certain ir example, the production t by friction i has been proposed which has explained ir, and the mind i in it, .«i in the Copernican iheory of ■m. liut the phi . of tin- former theory lias been i . particularly the term icity lor heat," since water has icily" to store away 30 timi much be ■ nrj has, wh 1 1 the theory; and of course In cooling, gives oft nidi heal an tin* lame amount of mercury. in be a sub- stance, we ha\ • know that it nply "ii vibratory motion of the ultimate particles of matter," as sound ■ v motion of the string, the bell, the vocal organs, which pre! und The analogy of the B i ong presump- in favor of such a theory; for in ili* - tuch and taste thi ■ a in the • uell Miii-' contract with given off from the odorous body . but in round, which alios jible distance of twenty miles there ontract, only vibratioi n heal ami lighi com s from the sun and from the distant might >\ | ition, instead ■ ct with particles given off. In the process of combustion a 1 with phorphorus and other sul hich burn at i low temperal hted by thi produced by friction, then, as in the candle, the heal whioh slowly melts low, which in raise. 1 to the tlamc plllary attraction ; ami then the atoms of carbon in the heated tallow clash with atoms of oxygen in the sur- rounding air ami the motion of trans- lation is changed to vibration, which is heat. Of COUrM the power which the atoms of carbon and ox together is not gravitation hut chemi- cal a.-tion, a force indefinitely greater, The slowness of combustion is because onlv a few of I mi can I itherat the tame time, while in June, powder, and other explosives, there is a previous mixing of the at in proper proportions, ready t" i when the spark is given. We talk ahout the power of steam; hut .team is only a convenient lever; the power all comes from thi muscular powi from the digested — burned — in the stomach ; for the stomach of every animal Is a furnace, ami the heat of the furnace produces mechanical force, whether in the locomotive -ir In the animal ; and heat and mechanical fore- n re conver- tible each into the other ami hack again, without actual los*. Ami thin is analogous with what we see around u*. There it change every where, but nothing goes out of existence tee mes water ; watei steam, and even hydrogen and oxygen ; the form and qualilii - I atly change, hut not iiom of the in ■ It ; ami all may bi changed hark ngsiin into water. ■••at in the locomotive is chs into the forward motion • f the train, and this sgain into heal when the brske" are put on ;and mi the friction of the axle-, tl the air. and the heal pi stop- pinga train would -tart it again to the PACIFIC SCIENCE MONTHLY. same speed in the same time, if all could be used. The ratio of converti- bility is 772 foot-pounds ; that is, the heat which would raise one pound of water one degree (Fahr.) would lift it 772 feet ; and a pound weight, by stop- ping from a fall of 772 feet, would pro- duce heat enough to warm a pound of water one degree, if all used. In 1844 Mr. Joule, of Manchester, Eng., stirred water, mercury and sperm oil by forces which could be measured, and noticed the heat developed. He also caused pieces of cast iron to rnb together, and forced water through capillary tubes ; and in every case the ratio was sub- stantially the same ; and the figures "772" are the mean of 110 experiments, and are now universally accepted. With this ratio it has been figured that the mere stopping of the earth in its orbit would cause as much heat as the burning of 14 worlds of solid coal as large as our earth. Then in starting us in our course around the sun, as much power as this was exerted, whether given at a separate impulse, or in common with the whole solar system according to the Nebular Hy- pothesis. And since such power was exerted in starting our little speck how much more was used in giving their motion to all planets, the sun and all the stars which the telescope reveals. In practical matters, we see that the enormous capacity of water to store away heat explains why the ocean never freezes, and never becomes hot as the desert's burning sand. There- fore the mildness of our ocean climate, both in winter and in summer; and especially when an ocean current like that of the Gulf stream flows by the banks of New Poundland, and wraps the British Isles, it gives off in that high latitude the enormous heal ceived in the tropics. So with the Japan current of the Pacific Coast. So also of the "water protection" to fruit on the shores of eastern lakes. But more than this; water reaches its greatest density at 39 degrees, seven degrees above freezing, and the surface drops cooling toward this point give place to warmer drops from below, and thus nearly all the. heat of the whole lake to its bottom is given oft' to warm the fields around, before its tempera- ture falls to the freezing point. Thus spring buds are saved, and corn from a June fro»t, and the unripe grapes of autumn. But further; in freezing, water gives off 143 degrees of heat. So that, a pound of water at 112 degrees in merely changing into ice at 32 degrees would warm 143 pounds of water one degree. So steam in turning to water at th™ same temperature, gives off beat enough to warm 907 pounds of water one degree; and of course ice in tinn- ing to water consumes 143 degrees of heat, and water in turning to steam consumes 967 degrees . Therefore a fire which quickly warms a kettle of water to boiling, must burn a long time to boil it all away. True, boiling water, is as hot as steam ; but it is still water, and an enormous amount of work must be done to pull its molecules apart, and left them to occupy 770 times their present room. Now all the world's work is done by the sun. The power of every water- fall was given by the sun when it lifted water from land and sea into the clouds to fall as rain and go over the mill-dam and Niagara. The power of every steam engine came from the sun as it caused the wood to grow, and the vegetation which formed the coal. All muscular power of man and beast PACIFK ' KWTHLY. And the heat which our earth re- in the sun i- only aa one to .khhhmi. Whew e come* to th.- ■uo the supply for all this iii diameter,) and i its win. I.- outer surface with a layer ol IT mil< h thick ; and the burning pf all this coal would supply the sun with heat only one y«-;tr. Whence comes so much coal every year'.' And extravagant ofita heat ever since the in began ; and if the Nebu- [yphothesia is even substantially indefinitely earlier then the earlii si geologic time Bui the human race is especially concerned with the future supply ; for if t ti >• sun -hull have i" pi n :i littleecon- omy it may In- hard for the children of in. ii Meteor* may possible give a partial supply. Stopping the earth in ■it would prnduco as much beat . burning fourteen world and if the earth should fall to .:> produced would equal thai >al ; and this would keep up the sun's heal i, if -.li.-n. onci in 822 j • ■ world as beavj aa oon should fall to in from our distan miles, the supply would be furnished ; or. if u corresponding number of smaller m in our w. - ug sky there is .1 f:iint briglil called the "zodiacal light," some ■ • wide at the base and reaching al- te senith, which may l»- the ii.,n of thi 1 [lit from ■ bell of meteoric ma • ■und ill'- Min ; and some have though) that by falling to the sun mighi up its supply of heal Bui "revolving around" ia not "failing to;" and though some might fall, as to th* earth, yet, Since our great met* shower of 1833 did not perceptibly our temperature, we must look for sonn" mora promising soun Supply. Beside^, all meteoric matter must he exhausted in the • time, even if the sun is traveling through a universe full of it. in the universe is absolutely infinite in extent. Then from the utter failure uf every effort to find an adequate supply fur the sun'a heat, lei us lit to the firm voice of analogy from the Nebular Hyp teni has been gradually cooling since before the ti r »t planet, Neptune. thrown off. Our human race, with its history of an hour, came intoexistence at tin I cooling proci -j ; and We and our children and your chil- s children to thousands of gener- ations may live and enjoy before the sun is perceptibly cooler Hut modern ii tends no more strongly to any conclusion than thai the sun roust sto|. shining, stop warming. The clock must run down and Stop, and Byron's tin of Darkness." be realised, un- less some hand, outside the clock, shall wind it. Hut if the sun mut out in tim ■■. it begs 1 its shining in time, just aa a clock, which cannot run forever, has not been riming for- iie.1 men's id. the duration oftime back enormously ; and the Nebular Hypothesis taking on more and more of the apnearani truth, earned our ideas hack indefin- further still. But whether our clock is a day clock ..1 an eight-day clock, or a clock of a thousand J orof a thousand million years; if it is running down it has not been running illy, or it would have run down long ago, What must have an end. 8 PACIFIC SCIENCE MONTHLY. has had a beginning, It is not the enormous quantity of heat the sun is giving off, but the fact that it is giving it off, which proves that it is going out. The clock is runing down, some- body wound it once. Somebody made it and wound it. If he made it so that it would run 6,000 years, this is wonderful. If he made it so that it would run 6,000 times the length of all geologic time— this is almost infin- itely more wonderful. If he made it so that it would run well -ill this time, so we nee it is still running well, so much the more wonderful his power, wisdom, goodness and righteousness. Now, if Darwin's development hy- pothesis, shall prove true, (as I have no idea it will.) Vet, if we shall find that in making and endowing the nebulous mist the Creator planned it so skillfully that not only the physical part of the solar system should run smoothly to the end, hut that when the world be- came fitted for vegetable and animal life, these appeared in their untold variety, each perfect after its kind, without his immediate hand ; and not only vegetable and animal life, but al- so the mind, and especially the heart of man with his conscience and free will, how much more utterly lost we shall he to express the greatness, wis- dom and goodness of the great first cause, a personal God. The Effect of Tobacco. Science has scrutinized boy smokers in France, and has discovered that the majority of them suffer from disturbed circulation, palpitation of the heart, "sluggishness of the intel- lect," and craving for alcoholic stimu- lants, while the rest were troubled with intermittent pulse, sleeplessness nose-bleeding, chronic nightmare and all other ills, all of which disappeared where the boys were induced to give up smoking. The investigation, says the San Diego Union, but confirmsthe results of many Other inquiries. The cigarette seems harmless, because it is so small and dainty, and even fragile in appearance. But its smoke of min- gled tobacco and paper, drawn in upon the lungs, will unucrmine the strength of manhood; to youth it is deadly. The habit of cigarette smoking is in- creasing among the hoys of the land at an alarming rate, and threatens to endanger the manhood of the coming generations. There is need of a good deal of educational work in this direc- tion among the voting and it is a work distinctively for parents to undertake. Oauern Near Ventura. JN company with I). H. Bailey we vis- J ited a spot about two miles up the coast, where it was sa;d a cave had been discovered some years ago. In ascending the ridge of the Coast Range mountains about two hundred feet above the ocean, we came 'o a descent to this subterranean vault, but found it surrounded by perpendicular walls from thirty to fifty feet high. We traced the cavern about one hundred yards further where we reached another opening surrounded by perpendicular walls, but that on the west was but ten or twelve feet in height. Fastening a rope to some bushes we let ourselves down and were enabled to penetrate the opening about 100 feet into the mountain. We found the passage narrow at the bottom, but widening toward the top toa dozen feet, or more. The roof or ceiling is nearly thirty feet high. Both walls and ceiling are of indurated clay, and with the side excavations seem to be a resort foi PACIFIC S'C7i V / UOXTHLY Hi.' main excavation ..■t imi><>sinc \ M-uctrating to ,f .me liundrul feet, we ■ if about j, which we found impossible 'h<' aid • >f a ladder, compelled to re- The cave is well ,,rti, id should he thorough- plonnl . A ladder, r..p. •* ami lan- would be in (or the under * Editor's Department. : l < I out the li,--i number of the ai in. - niim- r» of which we trust it* readers will ii.l ol ' interesl erv i r binding. It will be issued e first of each month, and will con- in fr..m twelve • prepared to p n.v f..r one year and at the ceedingly low price ..f kitty i his brings it within the range • Irho are inti rested in Scii nee \\ ■rilling t.. admit a few advert •n the second and third Wi - nd the Pacific Monthly t any •oribers, trusting thai they will it tend in their names accompanied l., LL !> in I which we oommend t.. both the advocates and oppoeeri ol the theory of evolution : — The manner In which this whole SUbji I I is very far from edifying. Khst, the in ncientists, from a few partially si ■ 1 end \. i ectly c illated fa.-is. |, .i |„ ,| i,, the ci inclusion they had effectually overthrown ever] >rm and degree of supernatur- nli-ni. an.l they -• proclaimed with undisguised pleasure \nd then the friends of the Bible, biking the alarm, began t.i discredit, uol simply the eon- elu- nts, hut their indubitable fact*, and the few clearly ed piiiicij.l. • deduced from tliem. The result a a war of - IJOl at all (I uilal.le to either paiiy. Bill a third class — neither in- blinded - of tradi- l opinions — I. ed to look into these things in order to Sod what they do really teach. The full n of their studii iminations bat I — probably it n v nd complete as ■lo lougi ble of additions but this much is lined — that all has been arches made in the I nature has failed to east the doubt opon any of the 10 VAC C SCIENCE MONTHLY great and saving truths of r ,inii, as they are revealed in the Be iptures, and cherished in the hearts nelh v- ers, and conserved by t! living Church. Sor is there any cause for misgiving in respect to anything that science may hereafter deinonstntt — for tin plane of its operations and that of the supernatural truth i 'ion are not the same, and by no pox ble extension can the former ■ - ■ into collision with the latter. The high- way of faith is all its own ; the eagle's eye has not seen nor the lion's \\h Ip trod it . The worst so vice Hint can be done for religion, in this business, is that rendered by its incompet< nl would-be defender-, who, with more zeal than discretion, rush into the contest against more expert antagonists, either to be discomfited in attempting to defend what is not true, or to give sWay their cause by false concessions. A large ■hare of the discussions of these mat- ters, heard from the pulpit or found in the newspapers, come within rang ■ of this criticism. Only those thoroughly learned in the points at issue can dis- cuss them in thepulpit, except to he- tray the cause they would defend. and the lies! learned will not be apt t" bring them there at all. There is reasons to believe that this folly is not much less in fashion than it was a few years ago. The history of ecclesiastical proceed- ing in respect to the finding of science is not altogether an honorable one, as may be seen in such cases as that of Galileo. The literalistic theory of bib- lieu! interpretation which controlled the thinking mind of Christendom from a very early age of the Church down to the immediate past — and is still powerful to mislead — has com- pelled the Church, first to antagonize the progress of science, and then tore- treat before it. So it fought theCoper- tiican system, but was compelled ai last to yield the j oint : and .-o, for a long time, it held on longer. Perhaps it has not yet fully given it, up. Bui a better method of thinking is now al- most universally accepted by those wdio must dictate the opinions of tie Church of the future, which demands that spiritual Christianity shall not be subjected to scientific test of modes of thought. Such subjects as the methods of creation, the age of the world, He? genesis of living things, and the devel- opment of speeies, all belong to the same class with the laws of gravitation, the motion of the heavenly bodies, and the precession of the equinoxes ; and none of them fall within the sphere of theology. They are all of the earth earthy, and should be left lor .secular men to deal with. "We have a more sure word of prophecy." Society of Natural History Meetings in February. Feb.6. — The Society net at the Li- brary rooms at 7 :30p. ni. Dr. Bowers, the president in the chair. The min u ll \\ tpproved I lor membership It was reeolved bo invito I i >l John Murray mertoinmeni under tl,. Mi \ ,,,„ ..( hj Iraulic from Mi Tl" Mrs. [da M read a highly interestin* p«- ,„., on earthquake* in lb< United m Prof I ''■ "' mony.lnd. Thii waa illoatra ,,,]! inthehai * ••'• nl All ",,e "f ""' ly d '"■' * and Prol i tdlallj thanked for hie able p*| v "■ ;.l ■ paper ting. 16th - day.) veni " P '"■ "■'• B '' rnard pr< which is publiahed in ol than! author for hie abli . ect WM '1 Prol Meredith waa paper at I • - So isaural History. Society ol Nal nized June 16th, and the - illustrating Mm Datura I h arch«e log) , botany, entomolo gy, p '■■ archaeol By the kindneea of Roy. ty baa th< dda much to ita i„t,. held twice .lltll and arc well attended a» illustra- , and mineral- rtI,,l i continually. The of the m Id i, Clarence pben let Bnrlow. Mr* C \ Boc I B I Breweb r, J. - I IV B irnard, I. Itn l Blackbu 8 12 PACIFIC SCIENCE MONTHLY. Collins, J. S. Collins, Mrs. .1. S. --, . . ./-Means Carnnchay Dunning, Mrs."Ella Foster, E. P. Foster, Mrs. E. P. Faddis, Miss Minnie Gilbert, Miss Fannie Guiberson, Dr. S. P. Hall, E. S. Hare, L. H. Keene, Josiah Kendall, A. C. Kendall, Miss Estella McKeeby, L. C. McKeeby, Mrs. L. C. Meredith, C. T. McMillan, Miss Morrison, Thos. H. Morrison, Mrs. T. IT, Murphy, Rev. T. D, Mercer, L. E. Reese, Miss Ada Robinson, Capt. R . Robinson, Mrs. R. Seward, Rev. F. D. Steepleton, Mrs. T. B. Baxby, Mrs. I. T. Saxby, Bert J. Seward, A. D. Shepard, Dr. J. H. Seward, Miss Anna Seymour, Miss Marie Surdam, R. G. Tag-art, Mrs. E. Vandever, Gen. Win. Vance, T. L. Walker, John A. Walker, Mrs. Ida M. Wiikin, E. Wilkin, Mrs. R. Wagner, Misa Anna Wooley, Mrs. Nellie CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. Prof Richard Owen, LL. I)., New Harmony, Indiana, D. E. Collins, Oakland, Cal. Publications Receioed. Message and Documents of tub Inter- ior Department, vol. 3. 1883-4. 8 vo . pages 473. eighty-five pistes and fifteen figures Govennno.it Printing office, Washington. Memoir of the National Academy op Sciences, vol. II, 1884. quail... pag«S268: Plates and figures. Government Printing office, Washington The Medical and Sbroicai. History or •i he Wa r of the Rebellion, Part III. vol. II, 1884 Quarto, pages 2C2. Plates and figures Government Printing Office. Smithsonian Reports, 1882. 8 vo., pages BS6. Figures and maps. Government Printing Office. Third Report of the XI 8. Entomolog- ical Commission, 8 vo., pages 452, Gf plates. Government Printing Office. Ciiineie Gordon, by Archibald Forbes, 61 mo., pages 215. John B. Alden New York. Quarterly Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 8 vo., pasres 249. 1885. Washington. Circulars of Information of the Bu- reau of Education, Rural Schools, 8vo.. pages 90. Washington Production of Gold and Silver in the United States. Burchard, 8 yn., pages 838. Washington. United States Fish Commissioh ion 1882, 8 vo. pages XCII and 1100 with plates And figures. Washington. 1884. Cotton Production hi the Undian Tek- ritory.4 to pages 34 Government Printing office 1884, Ship Building Industry of the U. 8 4to. illustrated pages 27G. Government Printing office. 1884. Cotton Production in the .State of Vir iiinia, 4 to pages 25. Government. Printing office, 1884. Report on Cattle, Sheep, and Swikb, 4 to pages 1G2. Government Printing office 1884. Report of the National Academy of Sciences, 8 vo., pages 115 Washington, 1884. 1 i. n ■ (•>r lly good - V(l(l ditoi FOH KXVBA \ - Dr , al. miiI ninrii I • • v \l Wxu FOR KXCUA ' II < al. PAL/EOZOIC CRINOIDS INK Crawtorttsviile Beds. THE MOST UOttD DSPQ3I7S 0? THESE mi M fflWOT FOSSILS OF THE WOBLf. n the subject, ami liable un- to furnish -p. .'inii-ii< unequal!* d and beauty, The follow- i Dg testimonial i* from u ooni|> judge. \l i - * .\ Fordsville, hid. We have jusl >f 1 1 A. I:..--, i, a In noidri of ilii* \ iiiii it> The writer has the criiioids (.f nil the .lire tii'ii^ in this country . and I impure in 1 "iili th i cf Prof. "ii. Hi' brin the wui k, the ti i n-~t betid in I lie i -kill thai arc inher- w i| l.\ long |\|„-| . and, what in, pcihit|>x, mwl ini|Mirtant, ntific knowledge of the subject fectly familiar with the demands of n museum. The only oighl of In nd 'lie most faatidi- lor will b JOHN M COULTEK, ogy. Iher information send foi circul PROF, l> A BAfi Crawfordsville, fndhv