PROCEEDINGS. XLV 



discussion of this incident, and of other topics suggested by it, was 

 participated in by Prof. Riley, Mr. N. P. Scudder, Mr. A. B. John 

 son, Mr. Benjamin Miller, Prof. Ward, Dr. Toner, and others. 



FIFTY-SECOND MEETING, November 30, 1883. 



The President occupied the chair. Fifty members were present. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Philosophical Society 

 of Washington, inviting the Biological Society to attend the meeting 

 of the Philosophical Society, to be held at the National Museum 

 lecture-hall on the 5th proximo, when the President's annual ad 

 dress would be the order for the evening. 



Dr. Thomas Taylor described OIDIUM TUCKERI, THE FUNGUS OF 

 THE FOREIGN GRAPE VINE,* which has of late years been so de 

 structive to European vineyards, giving an account of his discovery 

 of the highest stages of its fruit on the foreign vines now under 

 cultivation in the U. S. Agricultural grounds. 



Dr. Frank Baker read an interesting paper entitled THE LOGICAL 

 METHOD OF TEACHING ANATOMY,-)- which elicited much discussion, 

 participated in by Messrs. Seaman, Prentiss, Johnson, Gill, Norris, 

 Schaeffer, Scudder, Cope, and Ward. 



Prof. Theo. Gill exhibited drawings of a very curious deep-sea 

 fish discovered during the past summer in the North Atlantic, at a 

 depth of about two miles, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross. It belonged to a new family, which the speaker has de-- 

 nominated the Stephanoberycidae. J 



The Committee on Lectures announced a provisional programme 

 for the course of Saturday Lectures for 1884, under the auspices 

 of the Anthropological and Biological Societies. 



Four courses of these lectures were given, consisting of seven 

 teen lectures, a list of which, as finally arranged, is subjoined. 



* 1884. TAYLOR, THOMAS. On the Fungus of the Foreign Grape Vine. 

 <^ American Microscopical Journal, V, p. 5, 1884. 



f 1884. BAKER, FRANK. The Rational Method of Teaching Anatomy. 

 <^Medical Record, N. Y., April 19, 1884; also as extra, 16, pp. 20, with special 

 title. 



J 1884. GILL, THEODORE. Three new families of fishes added to the deep- 

 sea fauna in a year. <^ American Naturalist, XVII, p. 433, 1884. 



