38 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON. 



TWENTY-SIXTH MEETING, March 17, 1882. 



The President occupied the chair. Forty-five members were 

 present. 



Dr. Elliott Coues read a paper entitled ON RECENT ADVANCES IN 

 ORNITHOLOGY, on the occasion of laying before the Society, in ad 

 vance of publication, a complete copy of the work below cited.* 

 Remarks were made by Messrs. Gill, Ward, and Coues. 



Dr. Edward Foreman exhibited a map of the Cretaceous fossil 

 beds of Maryland. 



SECOND SATURDAY LECTURE, March 18, 1882. 



About six hundred persons listened to the lecture of Prof. Otis T. 

 Mason on the topic : WHAT is ANTHROPOLOGY ? f 



THIRD SATURDAY LECTURE, March 25, 1882. 



An audience of about six hundred persons listened to the lecture 

 by Prof. J. W. Chickering, Jr., on CONTRASTS OF THE APPALACHIAN 

 MOUNTAINS. J 



TWENTY-SEVENTH MEETING, March 31, 1882. 



Prof. Lester F. Ward, V. P. , occupied the chair. Eighty mem 

 bers were present. 



Dr. D. Webster Prentiss read a paper entitled MESMERISM IN 



*iSS2. COUES, ELLIOTT. The | Coues Check List | of | North American 

 Birds. | Second Edition, | Revised to Date, and entirely Rewritten, under Direc 

 tion of the Author, | with a Dictionary of the | Etymology, Orthography, and 

 Orthoepy j of the | Scientific Names, | the Concordance of Previous Lists, and a 

 Catalogue of his | Ornithological Publications. | [Monogram.] | Boston: | Estes 

 and Lauriat. | 1882. I vol., imp. 8vo., pp. 1-165. 



f 1882. MASON, OTIS T. What is Anthropology? <The Saturday Lec 

 tures, &c., pp. 25-43; also separate as Saturday Lecture No. 2. with title page, 

 8vo., pp. 21. 



J 1882. CHICKERING, JOHN W., Jr. Contrasts of the Appalachian Moun 

 tains. <The Saturday Lectures, &c., pp. 44-59; also separate with title page as 

 Saturday Lecture No. 3, 8vo., 16 pp. 



