PROCEEDINGS. XXXV 



Seventy-Fourth Meeting, February 21, 1885. 



The President in the chair, and ten members pi'esent. 



Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. N., read a paper upon The Genital 

 Apparatus of Lingula.* 



Mr. J. L. Wortman described A Method of Exhibiting 

 the Relationship of the Bones of the Skull, the plan 

 consisting in painting the bones with different colors. 



Mr. F. W. True made some remarks on The Recent Cap- 

 ture of Right Whales on Long Island. 



Seventy-Fifth Meeting, March 7, 1885. 



Professor Ward, Vice-President, in the chair, and twenty-five 

 members present. 



Dr. C. A. White described The Use of Gutta Percha in 

 making Casts of Fossils. 



Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. N., read a paper entitled Report on 

 Intracellular Digestion and its Relations to Pathol- 

 ogy.! 



An informal ballot was taken to ascertain the sentiment of the 

 members present with respect to the proposed change in the day 

 of meeting, two-thirds of the members voting against the change. 

 The Secretary was instructed to communicate with all the mem- 

 bers of the Society in regard to this matter, and to report the 

 result at a subsequent meeting. 



Seventy-Sixth Meeting, March 21, 1885. 



Mr. Dall, Vice-President, occupied the chair, and twenty-eight 

 members were present. 



The following paper, by Mr. Robert Ridgway, submitted for 

 publication in the Proceedings, was read by title : Descriptions 



*i886. Beyer, H. G. A Study of the Structure of Lingula (Glotti 

 did) pyramidata Stim. {Dall.) <Studies from the Biol. Lab. Johns Hop- 

 kins Univ., Baltimore, iii, No. 5, March, pp. 227-265, pis. xiii-xvii. 



11885. Beyer, H. G., Surg., U. S. N. Abstract from an Article on 

 Intracellular Digestion by Dr. JSlias Metschnikoff'. <Monthly Jour, of 

 Microscopy, vi, pp. 61-65. 





