APPENDIX VIII. 



Lectures and Meetings of Societies. 



The course of Saturday lectures for the season of 1892-'93 was as fol- 

 lows: 



March 5:7.— The Hiiinau Body. By Dr. D. S. Lamb. 

 April 1. — The Anthropology of the Brain. By Dr. D. Kerfoot Shiite. 

 Aprils. — Status of the Mind Problem. By Prof. Lester F. \Yard. 

 ApriJ 15. — The Elements of Psychology. By Maj. J. W. Powell. 

 April 22. — The Evolution of Inventions. By Prof. Otis T. Mason. 

 April 29. — The Races of Men. By Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. 

 May C— The Earth, the Home of Man. By W. J. McGee. 

 Mnxj IS. — Primitive Industries. By Dr. Thomas Wilson. 



At the meetiug of the Aniericau Ornithologists' Union, which was 

 held from November 15 to November 17. 1S92, the following papers 

 were presented: 



1. Birds of Lewis and Clarke in 1892. By Dr. Elliott Cones. 



2. Summer Birds of Indiana and Clearfield Counties, Pennsylvania. By "\V. E. 

 Clyde Todd. 



3. The Geographical Distribution of the Genus Meijascops in North America. 15y 

 E. M. Hasbrouck. 



4. Summer Birds of Prince Edward Island. By .Jonathan Dwight, jr. 



.">. A Partial List of the Birds of White Head Island, Maine. By Arthur H. Norton. 



6. The Origin and Geographical Distribution of North American Birds. By Dr. 

 J. A. Allen. 



7. The Life Areas of North America, considered especially in relation to their 

 Classification and Nomenclature. By Dr. .1. A. Allen. 



8. Tlie Fly-catchers of the 'Mxjiarclxus mcricannH nwiS. M. cincrascens groups. By Dr. 

 J. A. Allen. 



9. Notes on Birds observed in C'tiba. By Frank M. Chapman. 



10. Remarks on the origin of West Indian Bird-life. By Frank M. Chapman. 



11. A Review of the Faunal Literature of North America. By Frank M. Chapman. 



12. Some Eccentricities in Geograi)hical Distribution. By D. G. Elliot. 



13. Habits of the Knot ( Triiif/a cduuiKs) in Massachusetts. By Georgt H. Mackay. 



14. Migration of Charadrius domiuicus in Massachusetts in 1892. By George H. 

 Mackay. 



15. The Autumnal Plumage of the Hooded Warbler. By William Palmer. 

 It). Food-habits of the Common Crow. By Walter B. Barrows. 



17. A Preliminary investigation of the Food-hahits of Ampel is cedrorum. By F. E. 

 L. Beal. 



18. Notes on Helminihophila chrysoptera, jnnus, leiicobronchialis, and hucrcnai in 

 Connecticut. By John H. Sage. 



19. Additions to the List of Manitoban Birds. By Ernest E. Thompson. 



20. Feeding and Breeding habits of the Manitoban Icteridse. By Ernest E. Thomp- 

 son. 



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