RECORDS. I I I 



publication of the papers read to-day in some of the scientific or 

 educational journals of the country. 



The Committee on Nominations made the following report to 

 the Society : — 



" Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29, 1886. 



"To the President a7id Members of the American Society of 

 Naturalists : — 



"Your Nominating Committee beg to report that it has the 

 honor to make the following nominations for officers for the en- 

 suing fiscal year : — 



'■'For President. — Dr. Harrison Allen, of Philadelphia. 

 ^'•For Vice-Presidents. — Prof. Edw. D. Cope, of Philadelphia. 



Prof. George L. Goodale, of Har- 

 vard University, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Prof. Henry Shaler Williams, of 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 

 '-'-For Secretary. — Prof. Samuel F. Clarke, of Williams Col- 

 lege, Williamstown, Mass. 

 '•'-For Treastirer. — Prof. William T. Sedgwick, of the Mass. 



Inst. Tech., Boston, Mass. 

 '•'■For Members at Large of the Executive Committee. — Prof. 

 Henry F. Osborn, of Princeton College, Princeton, N.J. 

 Dr. C. V. Riley, Entomologist of the U.S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D.C. 



" Very respectfully, 



" W. G. Farlow. 

 " Angelo Heilprin. 

 " W. M. Davis. 

 "W. J. McGee. 

 " Horace Jayne." 



The annual dinner, given at the rooms of the University Club 

 on the evening of the twenty-ninth, was a thoroughly enjoyable 

 occasion to the thirty members who were present. 



