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Members will direct tlieir correspondents to address "American Association, &c.," and their letters will be delivered from the post-office in tbt Court House. PROGRAMME FOR WJGBFESDAV, ADGBST 12, 1857. General Session at 10 o'clock. 6 — General Diuinesi. 7.— Adjoumment for one bour to orgamxe in Metions. PBOGHIAMME or THXmSBAY, AUGUST 13, I857. GENERAL SESSION AT TEN O'CLOCK. «KCTJON A: MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. Meeting in Superior Court Room, Second Story. 10 A. Al. I-ROFESSOHA. D. BACHi:. PKUMANKNT . HAiR.MAN. Papers Read. l.-^n the Zodiacal Light. By Charles Wilkes. [Time 8 minutes.] [15 min.J 3.~Hypothesi, concerning Meteoric Stone,. By Robert Burns. [5 min.] 4.~Notes on the Measurement of a Base Line on Epping Plains Wash sf ctl 7:^r""' '" ''' ^""•'^ TrianguIaS'of tTe E^ten" Section of the Coast of the United States.-By A. D. Bache 5.-Solar EcHpse of March 14-15, 1858. B, Thomas Hi J[?S.*] 6.-A Note on Arithmetical Complements. Thomas Hill. [24 min.] 7.-0aSy,tem ofCo^rdinate, in Analytic Geometr^ By Thomas Hill. [1 min.] 8.-Note on the Gyroscope. By Prof. B. Peirce of Harvard. 8.-0n the Diverse Weights employed in Modem Coinage Part I. Troy Weight. By J. H. Gibbon. '""'^.bIcZ^^ '^ *"* ^""''^" ^""' '' "^ ^"**' ®****«- ""r^ [45 min.] SECTION B.-NATURAL HISTORY, GEOLOGY & CHEMISTRY Meeting Circuit Court Room (Fir«t Story.) raOPESSOR J. D. DAiVA, PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Papers Read. 1.— On the Flexures uf the Strata in the Broadtop Coal Field, Penniylra- nia.— By J. P. Leslie. 2.— On the Variety and Preservation of the Stembergia.— By J . W. Daw- son. S.—On the division of the Azoic Rocks of Canada into Huronian and Laurentian.— By Sir W. E. Looan. *"T?"c"°'"® Mineral Waters, and on the origin of Magnesian Rocks.— By T. Sterry Hunt. do / 6— On a subsidence of the Coast of New Jersey and of some of the adjoin- ^ ing States — Prof. Geo. II. Cook, Rutger's College. PROGRAMME Of FRIDAY. AUGUST U, 1857. General Session at4| P.1L SECTION A-MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS, Meeting in Superior Court Room, Second Story, 10 A.M. PROP. A. D. BACHK, PERMANENT CHAmikf AN Mor. J. D. cherrIman; secrItarv; JV. M. OILLESnE, CuAiKMAir. JOHN JOHNSTON. "*'***''• PAIRMAN ROGERS. I Papers Read. ^*~BAc*iE? ■''"'''' °^*^' ^""^' ^°"* °^ ^'•^ United States-Bj A. D. FOQTE 3.-0n a New Source of Electrical Excitation. -By Mrs. Eusha i— On the Thysical conditions det«rmm»tA ^f ♦».. .i:-..*. .,. States—By Prof. Joseph HbnrtT"' " ^"^ '""""^ °' '°* '^""*'* SECTION B : NATURAL HISTOEY, GEOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY. Meet! in the Diitrict Court Room at 10 o*cioek, A.M. PROF. J. D. DANA, PERMANENT CHAlRMAlf. T. STBRRT HUNT, SECfl£TART. « COU CHARLES WHITTLESEY, Chaibmar, I. A. LAPHAM. Em)., PROF. C. DEWEY. Papers Read. 1. — On the Parthenogenesis of Animals and Plants. — By Bkrthold Seemann. 2. — General Considerations on the Metamorpbism of the Sedimentar7 Rocks. Bjr T. Sterrt Hunt. 3. — On the probable sub-di?i800 of the Laurentian series of Canadian Rocks.— Bj Sir W. E. Logan, F.R.S. 4. — Notice of a New System of Dressing Metallic Ores. — Bj B. Silli- MAN, Jr. 5. — On some Debatable Points in Natural Science. — By Prof. £. J. Chap- man, Toronto. 6. — Species of Trilobite from the Potsdam Sandstone of New York. — fij J. D. Dana. 7. — On the place in the Geological series of the masses of Crystalline or Sub-Cr jstailine Stratified Rocks, in the North Highlands of Scotland. By Sir Roderick Murchison, F. R. S., with a note on the Fossils by S. W. SAI.TBR, F.G.S. 3.- i.- 1 r SUB SECTION ! ETHNOLdGY, STATISTICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. PA'SS.k,^^''*®'*. CHAIRMAV J. LSaLET, Ji., HECRETART. HROP. ARNOLD QUVOT. Papers Read. L-— On the Word Celt.— Bj J. P. Lesley. 2.— Tfaongbts on Species.— B/ Jamis D. Daka. 3 — On the supposed Uniformity of Ct aoial Type throughout all Vtrieties of the American Race. By Danibl Wn.soN. 4.— Remarks on the ClassiBcation of the Varietius of Man.— Br M. B. AlfDBIUOlf. PEOGRA^MME OF SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1857. General Session at 4i P.M. SLCTION A— MATIIEMATJCS AND PHYSICS, Meeting in Superior Court, Room, Second Story, 10 A.M. A. D. BACHE, PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. J. B. CHERRIMAN, SECRETARV.| W. M. GILLESPIE, Chairmas. JOHN JOHNSTON. FAIRMAN ROGERS. Papers Read. 1.— On the warped surfaces occurring in Road Excavations and Embank- raents — By W. M. Gillespie. 2.— Preliminary Researches on the alleged Influence of Solar Light on the Proms of Combustion.~By John Lkonte, of South Carolina 3.-.0n some specml relations of the Straight Line and the various orders ot Curves. By Stephen Alexander. 4.— On the diverse Weights employed in modern Coinage. Part II.— On Karat Gram Weights.—By J. H. Gibbon. 5.-Som^on^^PhMomena of the Texas « Norther" and Climatology.-. 6.-0n the Heights of the Tides of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, xJy A. 1). Bache. 7 — On some Phenomena of Ice.— By Prof. Joseph Henry. 8— Improvement in the construction of the Achromatic Telescope. Br H. L. Smith, Kenyon Coll., Gambier, O. ^ ^ >i > t 57. f S I c s, 11 SECTION B : NATUitAL HISTORY, GEOLOGY & CHEMISTRY Meeting in the District Court Room at 10 o'clock, A.M. J. D. DANA, PERMANENT CHMRMAN. T. STERRY HUNT, SECRETARY. CHARLES \VHITTLE8EY, Chaibma:?, I. A. LAPHAAT, Es<)., C. DEWEY. bt on the Carolina >i > us orders II.— On ology.— 1 States. pe. By t Embank- Fapek.. Read. 1. — On the Newer Pliocene Fossils of the St. Lawrence Valley. — By J. \V. Dawson. 2.-»0n the Fluctuations of LeYel in the North American Lakes. — By Chas. Whittlesey. 3. — On the Parallelism between the Rocks of the Laurentian and Silurian Systems.~By T. S. Hunt. 4t. — On the Physical Break and the Br jak in the Succession of Life in the British Rocks. — By A. C. Ramsay. SUB-SECTION : ETHNOLOGY, STATISTICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. ^•|?.o^§5^?^2' CHAIRMAN. J. LESLEY, Jb.. Es(i., SECHLTARY JDiANlEL AVILSON, ARNOLD OUYOT. JOSEPH LLSLtY, Jic Papers Read. l.-i«0» Arrow-liead or Wedge Inscriptions.— By J. *i. McIivaiwjr, 2.^0n the Ethnological Bearing? of certain Architectural formt.—Br J. P. LESur. ' S.-^-On a Unirersal Language. — By Hugo Reid. > JTICAL IMJK. rmt. — Bj PROGB-A.MME OP MOSTDAY, AUGUST 17. 1,857. General Session at 4i P.M. SECTION A: MATHEMATICI^ AND PHYSICS. Meetioj^ io Superior Court Boom, Second Stor7, 10 A.M. PROF. A. D. BACHE, PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. PROF. J. B. CHEBRIMAN, SECRETARY. «3aoTzoM'*ao3McaiCXTTaB. W. If. OILLEaPIE, CausauH. E. S. 8NKLU F^IRMUUfilOa^BS, Papers to be Bead. 1.— On an improred conitrBetioiiof Rufapli^'s loductioD Apparatu^-^B/ £. S Ritchie. 3.—0n]'tbe Electrical HTpotiiens of the Auronit B 15 SUB-SECTION : ETHNOLOGY, STATISTICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. r- 'V Papers to be Bead. 1.— On the Ancient Mining Operations of Lake Superior.— By Cha&US Whittlesey. 2.— Remarks on the Collectiort of Indian Paintings and Antiquities exhibit- ed by Mr. Paul Kane, at the request of the Local Committee.— By Daniel Wilson. 3.— The Behistun Inscription (Arrow-head.)— By J. H. McIlvaine. 4.— The Laws of D'-^cent among the Iroquois.- 1st, Descent in the Female Line. — ^2nd, Degrees of Consanguinity. — ^By L. H. Morgan. 5.— On certain peculiarities of the Languages of Southern Africa.— By J. CONSTANTINB APAMSON. 6.— On some Ethnological Specimens from the Island of Aneiteum, New Hebrides.- By J. W. Dawson. 7.— Comparison of the Religious System of the Iroquois with that of the Ancient Persians.— By L. H. Morgan. 8.— The Universal Science.— By Clinton Rosevelt.