290 proceedings of the academy of [1896. 



June 2. 

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

 Seventy persons present. 



June 9. 

 Harrison Allen, M. D., in the Chair. » 

 Thirteen persons present. 



Papers under the following titles were presented for publication : — 



" Contributions to a Knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, 

 No. 1. Scoliidie," by William J. Fox. 



" The Mesenteries of the Lacertilia," by Edward D. Cope. 



" Eevision of the Slugs of North America : Ariolimax and 

 Aphallariou," by Henry A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vauatta. 



June 16. 



Mr. Charles Morris, in the Chair. 



Nineteen persons present. 



Papers under the following titles were presented for pubHcation : — 

 " A Collection of Fishes obtained at Swatow, China, by Miss 



Adele M. Fielde," bv Cloudslev Rutter. 



"A Collection of Fishes made by the Rev. Joseph Seed Robeits 



in Kingston, Jamaica," by David Starr Jordan and Cloudsley 



Rutter. 



June 23. 

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

 Twenty-eight persons present. 



June 30. 

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

 Twenty-one persons present. 



