ISOS.] 7 [Custodian. 



Resume of observations on the shell-heaps of New England. De- 

 cember 4, 1867. 

 On the after-impression of objects. March 18, 1868. 

 Observations upon crania. April 15, 1868. 



We have elected during the past year one Honorary- 

 Member, two Con-esponding and forty Resident Members. 

 Of the latter, thirteen have not yet ratified their election 

 by complying with the requirements of the Constitution ; 

 two of the thirteen have paid their entrance fee but 

 have not yet signed the Constitution ; while eleven have 

 neither signed the Constitution nor paid the initiation. By 

 a recent change in the By-Law regulating admission to the 

 Society, persons elected to resident membershij? are re- 

 quired to comply with specified conditions within six months 

 or forfeit the opportunity of fellowship ; and, by a vote of 

 the Council, those who were elected previous to 1867 and 

 neglected to respond within a definite time to a recent, spe- 

 cial request to ratify their election to membership, were 

 dropped from the list. Lists of members will hereafter be 

 printed annually and the confusion and mistakes of former 

 years avoided. 



There has been no essential change in the subscription list 

 of our Publications ; a few names have been withdrawn and 

 a few more added. 



Early in the year we issued the second part of our Me- 

 moirs, containing papers by Dr. Coues, on the Osteology and 

 Myology of the Colymbus torquatus; by Mr. Scudder, on two 

 fossil insects from the carboniferous formation of Illinois, with 

 a discussion of the importance, for classification, of characters 

 drawn from the ueuration of the Aving; by Mr. Hyatt, on the 

 occurence of features characteristic of old age among Cepha- 

 lopods, at the period of the decadence of that group ; and by 

 Dr. Packard, on the glacial phenomena he had observed in 

 Labrador and Maine, together with a review of the recent 

 invertebrates of Labrador. Within a few weeks, the third 



