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January 17, 1866. 

 The President in the chair. 



Thirty-nine members present. 



Dr. II. R. Storer remarked upon the rej^roduction of lost 

 parts in man, and instanced cases of amj^utation in foetal life 

 by bands of lymph, and the pressure of the umbilical cord. 



Prof Wyman stated that young animals reproduced lost 

 parts more completely than the adult, and the lower more 

 readily than the higher. He had seen in South America a 

 man whose arm ended in a stump, on which were five spheri- 

 cal bodies representing the fingers, which had been repro- 

 duced after amputation, probably by the umbilical cord. He 

 also mentioned other instances of the reproduction of fin- 

 gers after artificial amputation. 



Mr. Putnam referred to the experiments of Brant and Sie- 

 bold on Cryptobranchus. He had known instances of the 

 reproduction of the toes and tail in our native salamanders. 



Mr. Shaler made some further remarks on the formation 

 of continents. 



Prof Wyman made some remarks on the cells of bees, 

 and adverted to the honey and brood cells of 3IeUpona^ 

 which as Darwin remarks, are a mean between the regularly 

 hexagonal cells of the honey bee, and the rude cylindrical 

 cells of Bomhus^ the humble-bee, being partially hexagonal 

 in form. The question was raised whether the bee intends 

 to make a hexagonal cell, or if left by itself would construct 

 a cylindrical cell. He thought that if left alone to build a sin- 

 gle cell, this would most probably be round. In the cells of 

 Melipona^ as Huber's plate shoAvs, they are only hexagonal 

 when in contact with the adjoining cells. 



M. De Selys Longchamps, Brussels, Belgium, was elected 

 .' Corresponding Member. Messrs. Samuel H. Savage, W. 

 Wickersham and John E. &iight were elected Resident 

 Members. 



