1893. | NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. il 
Srarep MEETING. 
October 16th, 1893. 
Vice President Osporn in the chair and twenty-eight persons 
present. 
Prof. Osborn stated that the Committee on Public Lectures 
had secured the hall of the New York Academy of Medicine for 
this season’s course. 
SECTION OF BroLogy. 
Professor Osborn took the Chair, and after a short address, 
called upon members of the section for brief reports of summer’s 
researches. 
Mr. F. M. Chapman spoke of the revision of his collections 
of birds and mammals from the Island of Trinidad; Dr. F. S. 
Lee of his continued investigation of the functions of the in- 
ternal ear; Prof. E. B. Wilson of his recent visit to the Pacific 
coast, undertaken in behalf of the University of California, with 
the view of determining a locality best suited for the proposed 
Marine Laboratory ; Dr. Bashford Dean gave a brief account of 
his experiments in the Delaware in the artificial culture of 
sturgeon carried on in the interests of the United States Fish 
Commission; Prof. N. L. Britton reported on his summer re- 
searches at Pocono, Pa., noting some of the results of himself 
and of his students in studies of the altitudinal distribution of 
Eastern plants; Prof. Osborn, in conclusion, spoke of his visits 
to the collecting ground in the “ Bad Lands,” and reported 
briefly upon recent discoveries of new forms of fossil Titano- 
theres in the Upper Bridger. 
The following officers of the section were elected for the en- 
suing year: 
Chairman: Prof. H. F. Osporn. 
Secretary : Dr. BAsHrorp DEAN. 
