CONTENTS. 



PACK. 



Officers and Committees for 1887 iv 



Officers and Committees for 1888 v 



Joint Commission vi 



Proceedings, February 20, 1886, to January 20, 1888 vii-xxii 



Saturday Lectures, 1886 xxii 



" " 1887 xxiii 



Baird Memorial Meeting xxiii 



Notice of Botanical Section xxiv 



Addresses and Communications : 



Description of a new species of Bat from the Western United 

 States i Vespertilio ciliolabrum, sp. nov.), by C. Hart Mer- 



riam (December 17, 1886*) 1-4 



Description of a new Mouse from New Mexico (Hesperomys 



anthonyi, sp. nov.), by C. Hart Merriam (April 15, 1887*) . 5-8 

 The Beginnings of Natural History in America The Third 

 Century Annual Address of the President, G. Brown Goode, 



January 22, 1887 9-94 



Some American Conchologists. Annual Address of the Presi 

 dent, William H. Dall, January 28, 1888 95~i34 



Description of a new Fox from Southern California ( Vulpes 



macrotis, sp. nov.), by C. Hart Merriam (February 18, 1888.*) 135-138 



* Author's separates of the special papers here enumerated were published on the dates given 

 in the parentheses following the author's name. 



Ill 



