PROCEEDINGS, OCTOBER. 



OCTOBER, 1888. 



The usual monthly meeting of this Society was held at the Museum 

 on Monday, the Sth October, the president (His Excellency, Sir Robert 

 G. C. Hamilton, K.C.B.) in the chair. There was a large attendance 

 of Fellows of the Society. 



List of additions to the Library during the months of August and 

 September. 



Annual report of the chi2f signal officer of the Army to the Secretary 

 of War for the year 1SS7. (Washington, bound). In two parts, part 

 1. — From Brigadier-General A. W. Greely. 



Abhandlungen der Mathematisch — Physikalischen classe der Kune- 

 glich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1SS7. — From the 

 Department. 



Anales del Museo Nacioual Republica de Costa Rica Tomo I. Auo de 

 18S7. — From the Department. 



Annals and Magazines, Natural History. 



Annual Report of the Board of the Smithsonian Institution, showing 

 the operations, expenditures, and constitution of the Institution to 

 July, 1887. Pts. 1.2 (bound).— From the Institution. 



Annual Report of the Candian Institute Session, 1886-7, being part 

 of Appendix to the R-eport of the Minister of Education, Ontario, 

 1887. — From the Institute. 



Annual Report of the Chief Signal Offices of the Army to the Secre- 

 tary of War for the year 1S85-1S86, Washington, bound. — From the 

 Department. 



The Athenctum. 



Boliettino della Societa Gengrafica Italiana. Serie III., Vol. I., 

 Fascicolo VII. Luglio 1888, Roma. — From the Society. 



Boliettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della 

 R. Uuniversita di Tornio, X. 44 to 48. Vols. III. (pamphlets). — 

 From the Society. 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 

 Vol. XIII. No. 9. The superior incisors and cauine teeth of sheep, by 

 Florence Mayo, with two plates. (Pamphlet). 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard Col- 

 lege, vol. XIII., No. 10. "The Rattle of the Rattlesnake." By 

 Samuel Garman, 



Vol. XVIL, No. 1. — Studies from the Newport Marine Labor- 

 atory. — Communicated by A. Agassiz. XX. — On the development of 

 the calcareous plates of Asterias. By W. Fewkes. — From Professor 

 A. Agassiz. 



Bulletin de la SociutL- Imptriale des Naturalistes de Moscow, 

 No. 2. Moscow, 1887. — From the Society. 



Bulletin of the Californian Academy of Sciences, vol. 2, Nos. 6, 

 7, 8. January, June, and November, 1SS7. — From the Academy. 



Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Article 

 I.— The West Indian Seal (Monachus tropicalis). By J. A. Allen. 

 Article II. — Note on Squalodont remains from Charleston, S.C. By 

 J. A. Allen. Vol. II., No. 1. — From the Department. 



Bulletin de la Societec de (Jcographie. Pts. I to 4, 1887. From 

 the Society. 



Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem. January to December, 

 1886. Vol. 18, Nos. 1 to 12. From the Institute. 



Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Vol. V.. No. 

 2. The Gape Wonn of Fowls (Syngamus trachealis). The Earth 



