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the claims of President Hitchcock, for no one can be found per- 

 haps Avho feels more indebted to him for scientific information 

 through his publications than myself. No one probably out of 

 the sphere of his personal influence has given more attention to 

 what has come from his pen. Moreover, I have sat at his table, 

 have been the recipient of personal attention and otherwise expe- 

 rienced his kindness. 



All this I say to show how for from me is the wish to dim the 

 lustre of his great achievements. Far more pleasure would it 

 give me to labor in defence of his well-earned reputation, if there 

 were need of this. But there never will be, for it rests on too 

 enduriuir a basis. ■ 



Prof. Rogers observed, that the conflicting claims of Dr. Deane 

 and Pres. Hitchcock were those which we find accompanying all 

 great discoveries at the present day ; one man makes an original 

 suggestion, and points out the line of investigation, which another 

 follows to some grand and unexpected result. In the present 

 instance, the ornithic character of these tracks had been alluded 

 to by several, even before Dr. Deane ; but he appears to have 

 been the first who convinced himself from comparisons and exam- 

 inations that these tracks were really made by birds. He thought 

 that while to Dr. Deane is due the credit of having made the 

 first scientific examination of these footprints, to Prof. Hitchcock 

 we owe the thorough and comprehensive investigation of all these 

 remains in the light of ample zoological and geological compari- 

 sons, and the creation from these materials of a new and impor- 

 tant branch of American Paleontology. 



Dr. J. M, Warren exhibited a series of skulls and 

 stuffed skins of the anthropoid apes, consisting of skulls 

 and casts of the Gorilla, Chimpanzee, and Orang, of both 

 sexes and of different ages, and two skins of the Chim- 

 panzee. He pointed out the principal characteristics of 

 the three genera, and exhibited several plates from 

 St. Hilaire of the Gorilla. He also exhibited the external 

 and internal genital organs of the large female Chimpan- 

 zee belonging to him. 



Dr. Kneeland expressed the opinion, from the exami- 



