RECORDS. 281 



Basiifokd Deax. Ph.D., Assistant in l^iology, Columbia 

 College. 



D. G. Elliot, American Museum of Natural History. 



B. D. Halsted, D.Sc, Botanist and Horticulturist at the 

 Agricultural Station, New Brunswick, N.J. 



Ida a. Kellar, Ph.D., Lecturer of Botany, Bryn Mawr 

 College. 



Edwin Linton, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Geology and J^iol- 

 ogv, Washington and Jefterson College. 



T. P. LoTSV, Ph.D., Fellow by Courtesy, Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



J. L Peck, A.NL, Assistant in Biology, ^\'illiams College. 



H. S. Pratt, Ph.D., Holder of Townsend Scholarship, Har- 

 vard University. 



J. E. Reighard, Professor of Animal Morphology, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. 



William E. Ritter, A.M., Instructor of Zoology, Univer- 

 sity of California. 



J. P. Smith, A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Palasontol- 

 ogy, Leland Stanford, Jimior, University. 



O. S. Strong, M.A., Preparator in Biology, Columbia 

 College. 



R. Thaxter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cryptogamic Bot- 

 an}^, Harvard University. 



H. H. Wilder, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Smith College. 



Arthur Willey, B.A., Assistant in Biology, Columbia 

 College. 



J. L. WoRTMAN, M.D., Assistant in Palaeontology, American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



The committee appointed to consider the question of a closer 

 union between the American Society of Naturalists and the Ana- 

 tomical, Morphological, Physiological, and Geological Societies 

 reported as follows : 



Recommend that the Society of Naturalists invite the Morpho- 

 logical, Anatomical, Physiological, and Geological Societies to 

 unite with them in a general association of professional naturalists, 

 with a common treasury and a common general secretary, and to 

 effect a union at the next annual meeting, on terms to be deter- 



