398 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMEEICAN ACADEMY 



" On a New Type of Insects." By Samuel H. Scudder. 



" Curcumin." Second paper. By C. Loring Jackson and 

 A. E. Menke. 



" Tumeric Oil." By C. Loring Jackson and A. E. Menke. 



" On the Fatigue of Small Spruce Beams." By F. E. 

 Kidder. 



Mr. Sereno Watson presented by title the following contri- 

 butions to North American Botany : — 



1. " List of Plants from Southwestern Texas and Northern 

 Mexico, collected chiefly by Dr. E. Palmer in 1879-80." 



2. " Descriptions of New Species of Plants from our West- 

 ern Territories." 



