THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Under the auspices of the Board of Education : 

 Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock, 



December 2. — Mrs. J. H. Haynes, "The Bedouins of the 

 Euphrates." 



December g. — S. W. Naylor, "Jerusalem and Her 

 Environs." 



December 16. — G. C. Mars, "Cairo." 



Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock, 



December 6. — W. T. Elsing, "Ants and Bees." 

 December 13.— Wm. Harper Davis, "Snakes." 



No tickets of admission are required. 



MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The programme of the meetings of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences for the month is as follows : 



December i. — Business Meeting and Section of Astronomy, 

 Physics and Chemistry. 



December 8. — Section of Biology. 



December 15. — Annual Meeting and Presidential Address. 

 December 22. — Section of Geology and Mineralogy. 

 The public is invited to attend these meetings, which are held 

 in the assembty room of the Museum. 



The Linnaean Society of New York will hold its regular meet- 

 ings at the Museum on December g and 23. 



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