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and again been filled with glacial ice, and the seat of the erosive 

 actions we have tried to trace, and that the face of the land is the 

 record of the wearing of many glacial periods, complicated and mod- 

 ified by the ordinary sub-aerial erosion. 



As an instance of the agency of man in modifying the 

 geographical distribution of animals, Prof. Verrill said that 

 he had been informed by a missionary that, in the Pacific 

 Ocean, the natives were accustomed to transplant a species 

 of living coral, {J^Iontipora)^ hundreds of miles in their 

 canoes, from one island to another. Mr. H. Mann confirmed 

 this statement, saying that this coral was used by those na- 

 tives for scouring the bottoms of their canoes. 



Dr. H. Bryant presented the upper portion of a skull from 

 a cave which must have been used as a place of burial, on 

 Moneague Island, one of the Bahama grou^^. Among the 

 remains of ten or twelve skeletons, there were no complete 

 skulls. This calvarium was greatly flattened, probably arti- 

 ficially, and not symmetrical, as the left parietal bone was 

 more prominent than the other. With these bones had been 

 found, by another gentleman, native tools and a stone hatchet. 



Messrs. R. C. Greenleaf, C. J. Sprague, and Dr. J. B. S. 

 Jackson were aj^pointed a committee to nominate ofiicers to 

 be balloted for at the next annual meeting. 



The Chair appointed Mr. C. J. Sprague and Dr. C. E. Ware 

 a committee to audit the accounts of the Treasurer, and to 

 re2:>ort at the next meeting. 



May 2, 1866. 

 ANNUAL MEETING. 



The President in the chair. 



Forty-two members pi'esent. 



The Acting Custodian made the following Report, em- 

 bodying the Annual Rei)orts of the Acting Librarian and 

 the Curators of the Museum fiDr 1865-6. 



