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February 16. 

 The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., in the Chair. 



Seventy-eight persons present. 



The PubHcation Committee reported that the following communica- 

 tions had been received : 



"The Fossil Land Shells of Bermuda," by Addison Gulick (February 



3). 



"Xew, Little Known and Typical Berycoid Fishes," b}^ Henrj^ W. 

 Fowler (February 8). 



"Description of a new Race of Notropis chalybseus from Xew 

 Jersey," by Henry W. Fowler (February 8). 



"The Larval Eye of Chiton," by Harold Heath (February 10). 



Prof. Arthur W. Goodspeed made a communication on radium 

 and the relation of its phenomena to general physical laws, especially 

 those of radiant matter. (No abstract.) 



The following were accepted for publication : 



