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times signed with the name of the artist ; in this case 

 they are called "autograph proofs," and are much more 

 costly than an ordinary impression. After the artist 

 proofs are printed it is customary to cut the artist's name 

 in the right hand lower corner of the plate, while the 

 engraver's name occupies the left hand portion, bringing 

 them, of course, in just the opposite position in the 

 printed proof; then another series of proofs are struck 

 off, and called "proofs before the letter." Finally the 

 title of the plate is engraved, and then the ordinary series 

 of the plate is printed. 



Mr. James Kimball communicated a paper on the 

 "Journal of Eev. Daniel Shute, D.D., chaplain in the 

 expedition to Canada in 1758." 



Referred to the committee on publications. 



Vice President F. W. Putnam spoke of the Agassiz 

 Memorial Fund, and urged the necessity of aiding, even 

 if in a small way, the promotion of its objects. 



The subject was referred to the curators of the Depart- 

 ment of Natural History. 



Vice President Putnam presented the following paper : 



NOTES ON THE MAMMALS OF PORTIONS OF KANSAS, 

 COLORADO, WYOMING AND UTAH. 



BY J. A. ALLEN. 



The following incomplete lists of the mammals of four quite widely 

 separated localities in the Middle Province of North America are 

 based on observations made by the writer while on a recent collecting 

 tour to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, for the Cambridge 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. Meeting everywhere with intel- 

 ligent hunters, some of whom had spent many ye^rs in the vicinity 

 of the localities I visited, I was able to obtain from them much val- 



