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? #' >iir.i ,5«S ]:.A'^ ^^A ^ibraro of tijc Susnint OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, AT HARVARD COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. / C/fiur J^JfCcu/ - The gift ofUu^^c^^c/y^^^;^^ TRANSACTIONS OF THE New York Academy of Sciences LATE LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME XIII. October, 1893, to June, 1894. t Edited by the Recording Secretary. <r, NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY, : OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY, 1894—1895. President: J. K. REES. 1st Vice-President: 2d Vice-President: R. P. WHITFIELD. HENRY F. OSBORN. Corresponding Secretary: Recording Secretary: THOMAS L. CASEY. J. F. KEMP. Treasurer Librarian : CHAS. F. COX. ARTHUR HOLLICK. Councilors : J. A. ALLEN, H. CARRINGTON BOLTON, N. L. BRITTON, O. P. HUBBARD, HAROLD JACOBY, R. S. WOODWARD. Curators ; BASHFORD DEAN, G. F. KUNZ, D. S. MARTIN, HEINRICH RIES, W. D. SCHOONMAKER. Finance Committee: HENRY DUDLEY, J. H. HINTON, SETH LOW. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Volume XIII. PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY. PROF. .J. A. ALLEN. Page. Direct Action of Physical Conditions as a Factor in Evolntion (by title) 159 DR. E. S. F. ARlSrOLD. Limouite from St. John's River, Florida 23 AUDUBON MONUMENT COMMITTEE. Report 23 Treasurer's Accounts , 58 DR. H, CARRINGTON BOLTON. An International Index to Chemical Literature 2 PROF. N. L. BRITTON. Altitudinal distribution of Eastern Plants (by title) 7 Species of the genera Dracocephalum and Cedronella (by title) 98 Our Conception of Species modified by the Doctrine of Evolution. 132 GARY N. CALKINS. On the History of the Archoplasm mass in the Spermatogenesis of Lumhricus 135 F. M. CHAPMAN. Birds and Mammals of Trinidad (by title) 7 PROF. A. H. CHESTER. Concerning another Mineral at Franklin Furnace 97 On Caswellite, an altered Biotite from Franklin Furnace 181 Quartz Crystals from EUenville, N. Y 181 IV CONTENTS. O. F. AND A. C. COOK. A Monograph on Scyonotus (by title) 1C9 CHAS. F. cox. Recently discovered deposits of Diatoraaceous Earth in the Adi- rondacks (Additional Notes) 98 PROF. E. D. COPE. Discussion on Transmission of acixuired characters 156 H. B. CRAMPTON, JR. A Case of Reversed Cleavage in a Sinistral Gasteropod (by title) . 130 HERMAN S. DAVIS. Note on Bessel's determination of the relative parallaxes of // and Cassiopeire 75 DR. BASiHPORD DEAN. Experiments in Artificial Culture of Sturgeon 7 Fin-structures of Dipltcrus 22 Experiments in Sturgeon Hatching in the Delaware 69 Note on the Fossil Fish in the State Museum of Kentucky 109 Cladoselacfie Newberryi, A new Cladodont from the Ohio Waverly. 115 Drawings of Dipterus valeneiennesi S. & M. and delacanthus elegans Newb 131 New forms of Coccosteids ; and the relations of Arthrodiran Fishes (by title) 176 HARRISON G. DYAR. A Classification of Lepidopterous Larvfe (published in Annals) . 161 A. s. eakle. Allanite Crystals from Franklin Furnace 102 Tourmaline Crystals from Rudeville, N. J. (abs. ) 185 PROF. THOS. EGLESTON. Piesentation of Audubon Monument 30 Address at Special Audubon Meeting 41 CARL H. EIGENMAN AND WM. L. BRAY. A lievision of the North American Cichlidaj (by title) 110 CONTENTS. V CARL H. EIGENMANN. Notes on some South American Fishes (by title) 110 DANIEL G. ELLIOT, P. R. S. E. Life and Services of John James Audubon 43 PAUL GIBIER. Glycosuria produced experimentally in animals by psychical causes (by title) 176 DR. ARNOLD GRAAF. The Funnels and Vesiculae terrainales of Nephelis, Aulostoma and Clepsine 200 PROF. WM. HALLOCK. Observations on Deep-Well Temperatures at Wheeling, W. Va., Summer of 1893 (by title) (i The Theory of Geysers 75 A new method of making very fine Bolometers (abstract) 171 The Photography of the Manometric Flames in the analysis of Ar- ticulate Sounds (by title) 305 N. D. C. HODGES. A new method of protecting Houses from Lightning (by title) 171 ARTHUR HOLLICK. Observations on the Botany and Geology of Martha's Vineyard. ... 8 Remarks on Dr. Dean's paper on Cladodonts 118 Further notes on the Geology of the North Shore of Long Island. 122 DR. E. O, HOVEY. Note on the Petrography of Certain Basaltic Boulders from Thet- ford, Vermont Ifil PROF, O. p. HUBBARD. Notice of an Ancient Beaver Pond at Plainfield, N. H 115 On the discovery of Basaltic Boulders containing large nodules of Olivine at Thetford, Vermont 161 Account of an ancient Beaver Pond and of cut sticks found therein 177 DR. GEO. S. HUNTINGTON. The Gross Anatomy of the Kidney of Elephas Indieus 110 The Morphology and Significance of the Biceps flexor cubiti (by title) 132 VI CONTENTS. DR. HARWOOD HUNTINGTON. Certain New Derivatives in the Aromatic Series (printed in Annals) 101 PROF. HAROLD JACOBY. Report on the Meetings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 Notice concerning the motion of Gl Cygni 120 On the rednction of Astronomical Photographs (by title) 121 MORRIS K. JESUr. Address at Special Audubon Meeting 39 DR. A. A. JULIEN. A recently discovered fossil fungus from a petrified forest near Cairo 131 PROF. J. F. KEMP, Ore-deposits at Franklin Furnace, N. .J. (by title) 22 Ore-deposits at Franklin Furnace 76 Nugget of Native Antimony from Kern Co., Cal 139 An Orbicular Granite from Quonochontogue, R. 1 140 On the occurrence of Leucite in New Jersey 144 Notes of a Trip to the Iron Mines at Cornwall, Pa. (by title) 205 Nickel Mine at Lancaster Gap, Pa. (by title) 205 GEO. F. KUNZ. Mineralogical Notes 144 DR. F. S. LEE. Functions of the internal ear (by title) 7 The Scope of Modern Physiology (by title) 98 W, G. LEVISON. Standard Sizes of Trays, Drawers, etc 140 DR. L. m'i. LXJQUER. Preliminary notice of Sodalite from new localities (by title) 139 A. C. MATHEWS. The morphology and physiology of the pancreas coll Cby title) 176 W. D. MATTHEW. The intrusive Rocks near St. John, N. B 185 CONTENTS. Vll PROF. A. J. MOSES. Cavities in Quartz from Montclair, N. J 184 Zincite from Franklin Furnace (Abs.) 184 Atacamite from Globe, Arizona (Abs.) 184 PROP. E. S. MORSE. Discussion on Transmission of Acquired Characters 156 PROF. H. F. OSBORN. New forms of fossil Titanotheres from the Upper Bridger (by title), 7 Restorations of the Lower Miocene Mammals (by title) 110 Water Color of a Miocene Landscape 131 A Division of Eutherian Mammals into Mesoplacentalia and Ceno- placentalia 175, 234 C. L. POLLARD. Note on Fossil Leaves from Great Neck, L. 1 180 C. A. POST. Plates of Pleiades and Cygni 121 PROF. M. I. PUPIN. Electrical Resonance (by title) 122 PROF. J. K. REES. Report on work at Columbia College Observatory in connection with the Naples Observatory 6 Work of making a photographic Catalogue and Chart of the Heavens 121 Solar Facula; shown in Rutherford's Photographs 205 PROF. p. DE p. RICKETTS. On an Auriferous Deposit in Buckingham Co., Va. (abs.) 122 HEINRICH BIES. A Pleistocene Lake-bed at Elizabethtown, N. Y 107 On new forms of Wollastonite from New York State 146 Microscopic Organisms in the Clays of New York State 165 Additional note on Wollastonite from New York State 207 Notes on artificial Crystals of Oxide of Zinc (by title) 208 Preliminary Notes on the Pyroxenes of New York State (by title) . 208 EDWARD D. SELF. A Visit to the Falls of Bassasseachic 148 Notes on a Trip in the State of Oaxaca, Mex 204 . Vlll CONTENTS. GARRETT P. SERVIS. Astrology (public lecture) PROP. C. H. SMYTH, JR. Diabase Dikes of the Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River 313 O. S. STRONG, The Origin and Distribution of the Cranial Nerves of Amphibia (by title) 176 Au Improvement of the Golgi Staining Method (by title) 206 On Lithium Bichromate as a hardening Reagent for the Golgi Method 206 W. S. VALIANT. On the Stratigraphical Relations of the bed yielding Triarthrus Beckii, near Rome, N. Y. (abstract) . , 109 GILBERT VAN INGEN. Notes on the TrentoQ Limestones in the Lake Champlain Valley (by title) 115 Notes on the Geology of Ulster County (by title) 165 THEODORE G. WHITE. The Geology of Essex and Willsboro' Townships on Lake Cham- plain 214 PROP. E. B. WILSON. Visit to the Pacific Coast in behalf of Marine Laboratory 7 Method of preparing sections of the testis of the lobster (by title) . 110 Discussion on Transmission of Acquired Characters 156 Experiments upon the Horizontal Isotropy of the Egg (by title) 206 PROP R. S. WOODWARD. The Iced Bar and the Long Tape Base Apparatus of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (by title) 6 Periodic Errors of the Graduated Circle (by title) 205 DR J. L. WORTMAN. Field Expedition of the American Museum of National History 122 Patriofelis, Skeleton and description of 131 Discussion on Transmission of Acquired Characters 156 TRANSACTIONS OF THE New York Academy of Sciences. Regular Business Meeting. October 2ncl, 1893. President Bolton in the chair, and fourteen persons present. The following Amendment to Chapter XII., of the By-Laws, proposed at the meeting of May 1, 1893, was adopted : To follow Section 8 and be numbered " 4," the present Sec- tion 4 to be changed to " 5." 4. The following shall be considered the order of procedure at meetings assigned to Sections : 1. Reading the minutes. 2. Reports of committees. 3. Exhibition of specimens. 4. Session of the section under the direction of the Chairman and Secretar}^ of the Section. (a.) Reading minutes of the last meeting of the Section. (b.) Presentation and discussion of papers previousl}' an- nounced. (c.) Any other Scientific communications relating to the work of the Section. 5. Adjournment of the Section and resumption of the chair by the President. The Secretary announced the completion of Vol. XII. of the Transactions during the summer. The President exhibited the newly engraved seal of the Acad- emy, adopted by the Council.