280 proceedings of the academy of [1893. 



June 6. 

 Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Twenty-four persons present. 



A paper entitled "Notes on the Physical Geography of Texas," 

 by Ralph S. Tarr, was presented for publication. 



The paper entitled " New and little known Paleozoic and Jurassic 

 Fishes," by Edw. D. Cope, was ordered to be printed in the Journal. 



June 13. 



Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Thirty-eight persons present. 



Papers under the following titles were presented for publication : — 



" New North American Myxomycetes^," by Geo. A. Rex, M. D. 

 " The Phylogeny of the Docoglossa," by W. H. Dall. 



June 20. 



Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Twenty-six persons present. 



The death, May 29, 1893, of Prof. Carl Semper, a correspondent, 

 was announced. 



June 27. 

 Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Thirty-six persons present. 



The death on the 25th inst., of James J. Levick, M. D., a member, 

 was announced. 



A paper entitled " Contributions to the Life-Histories of Plants, 

 No. 9," by Thomas Meehan, was presented for publication. 



Note on the mechanism of the act of the expulsion of secretion from 

 the anal sac in Mephitis. — Dr. Harrison Allen invited attention 

 to the anatomy of the anal region in Mephitis. Jeffries Wyman 

 (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. History, 1844) briefly recorded the muscular 

 nature of the act of propulsion of the secretion which was assigned 



