196 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Feb., 



February 17. 

 Dr. Benjamin Sharp in the chair. 



Fourteen persons present. 



The Publication Committee reported the reception of the following 

 contributions to the Proceedings : 



"On a collection of mammals from Ecuador," by Witmer Stone 

 (January 24). 



"The olfactory sense of Hymenoptera, " by N. E. Mclndoo, Ph.D. 

 (January 27). 



"Description of a Tsantsa in the ethnological collection of the 

 Academy with notes upon another specimen," by H. Newell Wardle 

 (January 30). 



"Description of a new echinoderm," by Henry A. Pilsbry 

 (January 31). 



R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., Amos P. Brown, Frederick Prime, Edgar T. 

 Wherry, and Charles D. Walcott were appointed to constitute the 

 Committee on the Hayden Memorial Geological Award. 



Joseph McFarland, M.D., was elected a member. 

 The following were ordered to be printed: 



