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Twenty-Fourth Meeting, February 3, 1882. 



The President occupied the chair. Thirty-three members were 

 present. 



An animated discussion concerning the form of the tail, as well 

 as the relationship and history of the Arctic Sea Cow, Rhytina Stcllcri, 

 took place. This was participated in by Messrs. Elliott, True, 

 Coues, and Gill. 



Twenty-Fifth Meeting, March 3, 1882. 



The President occupied the chair. Ninety members were present. 

 Mr. G. Brown Goode, chairman of the Committee on Lectures 

 appointed by the Council, announced that, in co-operation with a 

 similar committee, appointed by the Anthropological Society in 

 response to an invitation from the Council of the Biological Society, 

 a course of lectures had been arranged for; these lectures to be 

 given on consecutive Saturdays, at 3 : 30 P. M., in the lecture room 

 of the National Museum. These lectures were to be free, and the 

 public was to be invited. The discussion of the form of the tail and 

 affinities of the Arctic Sea Cow was resumed ; and by special vote, 

 continued until 10:30 P. M. The speakers were Messrs. Elliott, 

 Coues, True, and Gill. 



First Saturday Lecture, March 11, 1882. 



An audience of about six hundred were present on the occasion 

 of the first Saturday lecture. 



Prof Theodore Gill delivered a lecture entitled Scientific and 

 Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.* 



The introductory address was delivered by Major J. W. Powell. f 



* 1882. Gill, Theodore N. Scientific and Popular Views of Nature Con- 

 trasted. <[The Saturday Lectures, | delivered in the | Lecture Room of tlie U. 

 S. National Museum, | under the auspices of the | Anthropological and Bio- 

 logical Societies | of Washington, | in March and April, 18S2 | — | D. Lothrop 

 & Co., I 30 and 32 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. | Washington, D. C. : — Judd 

 & Detwciler, Printer^ and Publishers. | 1882. | 8vo., pp. (4) 183 : (pp. 5-22). 

 Also separately as Saturday Lecture No. i, with title page, pp. 24. 



f 1882. Powell, John W. Introductory Address (to the Saturday Lec- 

 tures.) <;The Saturday Lectures, pp. 1-3. 



