PROCEEDINGS. 41 



consisting of Messrs. Goode, Riley, Ward, Rathbun, and Gill, 

 having been appointed by the Council to arrange for the same, and 

 having anticipated the action of the Society by making certain pre- 

 liminary arrangements. 



Mr. Edmund B. Wilson, of Johns Hopkins University, a corres- 

 ponding member, presented a paper on The Embryology of 

 Renilla.* 



Mr. Frank H. Gushing spoke on the topic Zuifi Biology, descri- 

 bing some of the peculiar plants and animals occurring in the 

 deserts of the Southwest, and referring to the manner in which 

 animals are regarded by the Zuui Indians. 



Eighth Saturday Lecture, April 29, 1882. 



About six hundred persons listened to the lecture of Dr. Swan 

 M. Burnett upon the topic How We SEE.f 



Special Meeting, May 5, 1882. 



The President occupied the chair. Thirty-eight members were 

 present. 



Mr. Goode presented the report of the Committee on the Dar- 

 win Memorial Meeting, which was accepted. Prof. Ward submit- 

 ted the report of the Committee on the Consolidation of the Scien- 

 tific Societies in Washington, as follows : 



The joint committee composed of the several committees appointed by the 

 Philosophical, Anthropological, and Biological Societies of Washington to con- 

 sider the desirability of a federation of those societies — 



Recommend to the several societies a federation on the following basis, and 

 for the purposes set forth : 



* The remarks of Mr. Wilson were in part included in the following papers : 

 1880. Wilson, Edmund B. The Early Stages of Renilla. ^American Jour- 

 nal of Science, XX, 1880, pp. 446-9, plate VII. 



18S2. Wilson, Edmund B. On Animal Polymorphism. <Johns Hop- 

 kins University Circulars, No. 15, May, 1 882, pp. 203-4. 



f 1882. Burnett, Swan M. How We See. <The Saturday Lectures, 

 &c. pp. 163-185. Also separate, with title page. 8vo.,pp. 25. Three wood- 

 cuts. 



