PROCEEDINGS. XXXVII 



Vice-Presidents— ?x<:){. Theodore Gill, Prof. C. V. Rilev, Prof. 

 L. F. Ward, Mr. Willl^m H. Dale. 



Secretaries — Mr. G. Brown Goode, Mr. Richard Rathbun. 



Treasurer — Dr. Tarleton H. Bean. 



0;////^//— Prof. O. T. Mason, Dr. George Vasey, Dr. D. Web- 

 ster Prentiss, Mr. Frederick W. True, Dr. Elliott Coues. 



Saturday Lectures, 1883. 



The second regular course of Saturday Lectures, under the au- 

 spices of the Biologfcal Society and the Anthropological Society, 

 was begun January 13, 1883, and the following programme was 

 carried out : 



January 13 : Capt. C. E. Dutton, U. S. A. On Rivers. 



Januai-y 20 : Prof. O. T. Mason. The Races of Men. 

 January 27 : Mr. GEORGE Kennan. Mountains and Mountain- 

 eers of the Caucasus. 



February j : Dr. D. W. Prentiss. Mesmerism in Animals. 



February 10 : Prof. Theodore Gill. Mythical Animals. 



February ly : Dr. John S. Billings, U. S. A. Germs and Epi- 

 demics. 



February 24: Prof. Lester F, Ward. The Plant Life of the 

 Globe, p^ast and present. 



March J : Mr. William H. Dall. Pearls and Pearl Fisheries. 



March 10 : Major J. W. Powell. Indian Mythology. 



March // .• Prof. C. V. Rilev. Adaptation and Interdepend- 

 ence between Plants and Insects. 



March 24 : Prof. C. A. White. The Teachings of Paleontology. 



March 31 : Dr. Robert Fletcher, U. S. A. Human Propor- 

 tion in Art and Anthropometry. 



Thirty-Ninth Meeting, January 19, 1883. 



Thirty-one members were present. 



Professor C. A. White, the newly-elected President, took the 

 chair, and, after a few remarks, introduced the retiring President, 



