6 JOURNAL OF THE [January, 



The Annual Report of the President was read by the Corres- 

 ponding Secretary. 



The reading of the reports of the Treasurer, the Librarian and 

 the Curator, was, on motion, postponed until the next meeting. 



The resignation of Active Membership by Mr. John A. Bag- 

 ley, aaid Prof. A. M. Mayer, was accepted. 



Prof. Samuel Lockwood, Ph. D., made some remarks supple- 

 mentary to his paper of December 17th, 1886, on " Raising Dia- 

 toms in the Laboratory." He dwelt particularly on the great 

 variety of hitherto unknown forms developed in his experiments, 

 and suggested the title — " Heterogeny of the Diatom " for his 

 paper. He further presented a sheet of very delicately made 

 drawings, by Prof. Alfred C. Stokes, of these curious forms. 



Mr. P. H. Dudley read a paper, illustrated by photo-micro- 

 graphs and specimens of the White Cedar {Chamcecypafts sphcz- 

 roided) showing its structure, and also showing its fungus {A^ari- 

 cus canipanella). 



The President announced the closing of the polls, and the 

 following was declared the result of the balloting : — 

 For President, J. L. Zabriskie. 

 For Vice-President, P. H. Dudley. 

 For Recording Secretary, H. VV. Calef. 

 For Corresponding Secretary, B. Braman. 

 For Treasurer, C. S. Shultz. 

 For Librarian, A. Woodward. 

 For Curator, W. Beuttenmuller. 



F. W. Devoe, 

 For Auditors, \ W. R. Mitchell, 

 F. W. Leggett. 



Meeting of January 2ist, 1887. 

 Mr. B. Braman, President//-^ tern., in the chair. 

 Twenty persons present. 

 Summary of the Report of the Treasurer, Mr. Charles 



S. Shultz. 



Balance, Jan. 15th, 1886 $122.69 



Receipts, to Jan. 7th, 1887 337-50 $460.19 



Disbursements to Jan. 7th, 1887 381.08 



Balance, Jan. 7th, 1887 $79.u 



