66 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [pEc. 10, 
STATED MEETING. 
December 10th, 1894. 
An attendance of twenty-eight. Prof. H. F. Ossorn in the 
chair in the absence of Prof. Britton. The minutes of the pre- 
vious meeting and of those of the general meeting of the Bio- 
logical Section were read and approved. 
The report of Prof. D. 8S. Martin, representing a committee of 
the Academy appointed to consider the matter of standard sizes 
of trays and boxes for mineralogical specimens, etc., was pre- 
sented, approving the character of trays exhibited by Mr. Levi- 
son, and requesting that action be taken regarding the work of 
the committee. After considerable discussion the report was 
referred to Geological Section of the Academy. 
The following were nominated for resident-membership: Prof. 
William Stratford and Mr. Isaac M. Dyckman, and the names 
were referred to the Council. 
The Biological Section organizing, a paper was read by 
Dr. J. G. Curtis “On the unpublished portion of Galen’s Trea- 
tise upon Practical Anatomy and Experimental Physiology.” 
The writer had, by the courtesy of the authorities of the 
Bodleian Library, secured photographs of an Arabic manuscript 
which contained the latter books (partly and imperfectly trans- 
lated, and as yet unpublished) of the treatise on technical 
anatomy. The careful translation will, it seems justly probable, 
give a more exact knowledge of the anatomical learning of the 
ancients. 
The following three papers, owing to the lateness of the hour, 
were deferred to a subsequent meeting. 
F. M. Chapman, “ Remarks on the Habits of certain Tropical 
Birds.” 
J. L Wortman, “On the so-called Devil’s Corkscrew, Dai- 
monhelix, of Nebraska.” 
