304 SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 



TiiUHSDAV, 10.30 A.M. Annual Discussion. Subject: Recent 

 Discoveries regarding the Cell. (Addresses limited to 30 

 minutes each.) 



I. Presentation of the subject from the chemico-physio- 

 logical side. (President's address.) 



Prof. R. H. Chittenden, Tale University. 

 II. Consideration of the subject from the botanical side. 

 Prof. W. P. Wilson, University of Penfi. 



III. Consideration of the subject from the zoological side. 



Prof. E. L. Mark, Harvard University. 



IV. General Discussion. 



Thursday, 7.30 P.M. Illustrated Lecture by Professor W. 



Libbey, Jr. Subject: Hawaii. 

 Thursday, 8 P.M. Annual Dinner of the Society of Natu- 

 ralists and affiliated societies at the New Haven House. 



The minutes of the meeting were as follows: 



President Chittenden in the chair. 



About forty-five members present. 



The minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee, held 

 in Boston, were read by the Secretary: 



The Executive Committee of the American Society of Natu- 

 ralists met in Boston on June 6, 1S93. Three members were 

 present. Professor Chittenden, Professor Farlow, and Dr. 

 Morgan. 



Final arrangements were made to meet in New Haven on 

 Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 37, 1S93, and Thursday morning, 

 December 28. 



The annual dinner was fixed for Thursday evening. 



It was arranged that the afternoon session on Wesdnesday 

 should be devoted to the business of the Society, and that the 

 morning session on Thursday should be given up to a discussion 

 of recent discoveries regarding the cell. 



It was thought advisable by the committee not to take any defi- 

 nite action in regard to a closer union of the Naturalists with 

 the affiliated societies, but to refer the matter back to the Society 

 of Naturalists. The committee recommended., however, that 

 a committee be appointed from the Naturalists to confer with 

 two members from each of the affiliated societies, to consider 

 wheliier it ^vas advisable to have a closer union with these 



