1867.1 115 [Bailey. 



the quality of the gold ; the error, being frequently as much 

 as two carats or two twenty-fourths, was considerable. 



Mr. Winwood Reade gave an account of the manner in 

 which the race of Fans, on the west coast of Africa, en- 

 trapped the wild elephant. 



Mr. W. W. Bailey read on behalf of his brother. Prof. L. 

 W. Bailey the following note on Epigcea repens : 



On the lltli of May, 1866, a specimen of Epiga;a repens was handed 

 to me by one of my students who had collected it from waste, rocky 

 ground back of the University at Fredericton, N. B. It exhibited 

 some noticeable peculiarities, among which were a corolla imperfectly 

 salver-form, the petals not thoroughly coherent into a tube, which was 

 not hairy ; the corolla apparently not deciduous ; the stamens reverted 

 into petals of the ordinary kind, more or less united ; some of these 

 showing a transition in having a filament-like base but no anthers. 

 Pistils indistinct (reverted into petals ?) 



Similar specimens from the same locality have been given me on 

 two successive years. Several clusters of blossoms were on the same 

 vine, all possessing the peculiarities above alluded to. 



Mr. Jeffries Wyman exhibited a number of malformed 

 skulls to illustrate the remarks upon that subject, made at a 

 previous meeting ; by means of them he explained at length 

 the theory of Dr. Davis of the mode in which the malforma- 

 tion of unusually elongated skulls is brought about ; he also 

 showed in a foetal skull, brought to his notice by Dr. J. B. S. 

 Jackson, the direct evidence of a closing of a portion of the 

 sagittal suture. 



The Secretary read the following letters which had been 

 recently received : — 



From the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, September 4th, 1866 ; 

 Editor of the Correspondenzblatt fiir Sammler von Insekten, 

 Regensburg; Zoologisch-Mineralogischer Verein, Regensburg, Sep- 

 tember 16th, 1866; Smithsonian Institution, October 20th, 1866; 

 Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Basle, Sejitember 23d, 1866 ; Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, December 20th, 1866 ; Acad- 

 emic Royale des Sciences, etc., de Belgique, Bruxelles, August 1st and 

 October 1st, 1866; Physikallsch-Medizinische Gesellschaft in Wiirz- 



