XLVI BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



January 5 .■ Mr. Grove K. Gilbert. Cliffs and Terraces. 



January 12 : Prof, Otis T. Mason. Child Life among Savage and 

 Uncivilized Peoples. 



January ip: Prof. Edward S. Morse. Social Life among the 

 Japanese. 



January 26: Major J. W. Powell. Win-tun Mythology. 



February 2: Prof. F. W. Clarke. Lightning and Lightning- 

 Rods. 



February p: Capt. C. E. Button, U. S. A. The Hawaiian 

 Islands and People. 



February 16 : Prof. E. D. Cope. The Origin of Human Physi- 

 ognomy. 



February 2j : Mr. John Murdoch. Eskimo Life at Point Bar- 

 row. 



March I : Prof. Harvey W. Wiley. The Sugar Industry of the 

 North. 



March 8 : Prof. Simon Newcomb. Psychic Force. 



March i^ : Mr. John A.Ryder. Protoplasm in the Light of 

 Recent Investigations. 



March 22 : Dr. Frank Baker. The New Phrenology. 



March 2g : Capt. C. E. Button, U. S. A. Volcanoes. 



April ^ : Prof. T. C. Chamberlin. The Great Ice Invasion of 

 North America. 



April 12 : Br. W. W. Godding. What shall we do with the Ine- 

 briates? 



April jp: Prof. J. S. Newberrv. The Industrial Arts as Factors 

 in Modern History. 



April 26 : Major J. W. Powell. The Canons of the Colorado. 



Fifty-Third Meeting, Becember 14, 1883. 



The President occupied the chair. Forty-five members were 

 present. 



Prof. C. V. Riley presented a paper, read by Br. Barnard, on 

 the use of Naphthaline as an Insecticide,* in discussing v/hich 

 Dr. Thomas Taylor and Prof. W. S. Barnard participated. 



* 1884. RiLKY, C. V. The use of Naphthaline as an Insecticide. <^Science, 

 III, pp. 455-45(>. 1884. 



