l6o SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 



Amounts brotigJit forxvard^ $-77 37 $^5046 68 



Dec. 26. Postage ..... 4 5° 



$281 ^1 

 Balance on hand . . . 764 81 



$1,046 68 $1,046 68 

 Of which $60 has been already voted. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. T. Sedgwick, 



Treasurer. 

 Baltimore, Dec. 27, 188S. 



The presidential address, " On the Study of the Human 

 Cranium, with the Description of a New Craniophore," was then 

 delivered, Prof. W. H. Niles being called to the chair. 



The Committee on the "Journal of Morphology" were called 

 upon and made the following report : — 



The committee appointed at the New Haven meeting to decide 

 upon the method of distributing the copies of the "Journal of 

 Morphology" purchased by the .Society, beg leave to submit the 

 following preliminary report : — 



The object of the Society being to increase the circulation of 

 the Journal, it seemed to the committee undesirable to present 

 copies to individuals or to institutions, where subscriptions could 

 be readily procured without such aid. Accordingly, the members 

 of the committee endeavored by personal correspondence with 

 officers representing various institutions to secure subscriptions, or, 

 failing in that, to elict such information as would guide them in 

 determining what to do with the copies purchased. 



As a result of correspondence with upwards of thirty persons, 

 five subscriptions have alieady been secured, and it is believed 

 that there are several more of those whose attention has been di- 

 rected to the enteipiise who may ultimately aid in its support. 

 Information which will be of value in the proposed distribution 

 has also been received. 



Although the committee was of the opinion that the resolution 

 was intended to confer on it the power of presenting the Journal 

 in the name of the Society, no such presentations have as yet been 

 made, and the committee would prefer, before assuming the duty, 

 to have the Society express its wish to that elTect, if it so desires. 



