PEOCEEDINGS. XV 



ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH MEETING, March 5, 1887. 



Prof. Ward, Vice-President, in the chair, arid twenty-eight 

 persons present. 



Mr. P. L. Jouy presented a communication entitled COREA ; 

 THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE, and exhibited a large series 

 of native implements and utensils, and also many photographs. 



Dr. Frank Baker described SOME UNUSUAL MUSCULAR VARI 

 ATIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY,* which had recently come under 

 his notice, illustrating his remarks with the aid of diagrams and 

 prepared specimens. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam exhibited and described A NEW SPECIES 

 OF WOOD MOUSE, EVOTOMYS CANADENSIS, recently received 

 from the mountains of North Carolina. 



Dr. H. G. Beyer made some remarks upon THE PRESERVA 

 TION OF BOTTLED MUSEUM SPECIMENS, especially in the line of 

 Materia Medica. 



ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH MEETING, March 19, 1887. 



Prof. Ward, Vice-President, in the chair, and twenty-two per 

 sons present. 



Mr. L. O. Howard read a paper entitled A ROCK CREEK PHI 

 LANTHROPIST,! the philanthropist being the larva of a species of 

 Hydropsyche, which preys upon the abundant larvae of the black 

 fly {Simulium venustum) . 



Mr. Charles Hallock described THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL 

 RANGE OF THE MOOSE, ALCES MACHLIS, IN NORTH AMERICA. J 



Dr. T. H. Bean compared AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN WORK 

 IN DEEP SEA ICHTHYOLOGY, much to the credit of the former 

 country. 



Mr. F. A. Lucas noted THE OCCURRENCE OF NOCTURNAL 

 LEPIDOPTERA AT SEA, mentioning some twelve or thirteen spe 

 cies which had been found distant from land. 



* Published in the New York Medical Record, December 31, 1887, vol. 

 xxxii, No. 27, under the title, " Some Unusual Muscular Anomalies." 



f 1886. Published in part in Annual Rept. , Dept. of Agriculture, 1886, 

 p. 510. 



J 1887. American Field, xxvii, 15, 344, April 9. 



Science, April 8, 1887. 



