54 SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 



The Secretary announced that the Executive Committee 

 recommended the following amendments to the constitution, as 

 follows : to amend Art. viii., so as to read : — 



Art. viii., Sect. i. By-Laws recommended by the Executive 

 Committee may be adopted at anv meeting by a majority vote. 



Sect. ii. By-Laws may be repealed at any meeting, upon 

 recommendation of the Executive Committee, by a majority 

 vote. 



It was moved and carried that this amendment be adopted. 



It was announced by the Secretary that the Executive Commit- 

 tee recommended the adoption of the following : — 



By-Law iii. At the opening of the annual meeting a commit- 

 tee of five shall be appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing 

 year. 



By a vote of the Society this By-Law was adopted. 



It was moved and carried that the Chair appoint this commit- 

 tee. The Chair appointed the following persons the Nominating 

 Committee : Profs. Goode, Osborn, Gage, Niles, and Lewis. 



After some discussion it w^as moved and carried that the Ex- 

 ecutive Committe be directed to consider the desirability of found- 

 ing a bureau of information concerning vacant posts in the Natural 

 History Departments of Educational and other institutions. 



The following new members were elected : W. K. Brooks, 

 Edward G. Gardiner, William H. Howell, T. Sterry Hunt, N. 

 S. Shaler ; R. Ramsay Wright. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Dr. Charles S. Minot. A new cabinet for microscopical 



specimens. 



2. . A new feeding-trough for grain. 



3. . An apparatus for calcidating intervals of days 



rapidly. 



4. Prof. Simon II. Gage. On the use of Miiller's Fluid for 



the preservation of the natural colors of animals. 



5. • On the use of collodion for the preservation of 



rubber rings and stoppers, etc. 



6. . Glass-bulb canula^ for the injection of silver 



nitrate, etc. 



