268 proceedings of the academy of [1896. 



May 5. 

 The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in tlie Chair. 

 Forty-five persons present. 



May 12. 



The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 



Thirty-three persons present. 



A paper entitled "Remarks on Filaria," by Fred'k P. Henry, M.D., 

 was presented for publication. 



May 19. 



The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair 



Ninety-eight persons present. 



A paper entitled " The Planktonokrit, a Centrifugal Apparatus 

 for the Volumetric Estimation of the Food-Supply of Oysters and 

 other Aquatic Animals," by Charles S. Dolley, M. D., was presented 

 for publication. 



Specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects and mollusks 

 collected in western Somali Land and the Galla Country, northeast- 

 ern Africa, by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith, were presented to the Acad- 

 emy and commented on by Messrs. A. E. Brown, A. Donaldson 

 Smith, Samuel N. Rhoads, Witmer Stone, Henry Skinner, William 

 J. Fox and H. A. Pilsbry. (No abstract). 



^[ay 26. 

 The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 

 Twenty-nine persons present. 



A paper entitled "Catalogue of the Species of Cerion, with 

 Descriptions of New Forms," by H. A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vauatta, 

 was presented for publication. 



The death of Auguste Salle, a correspondent. May 5, 1896, was 

 announced. 



The following were ordered to be printed : — 



