2 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [OCT. 7, 



The following papers were then presented and read by title: — 



I. COLEOPTEROLOGICAL NOTICES. 

 BY THOMAS L. CASEY. 



II. A LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA HITHERTO OBSERVED IN THE 

 VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY, WITH NOTES ON THEIR FOOD- 

 PLANTS. 



BY WILLIAM BEUTTENMULLER. 



These will appear in the Annals, Vol. V. 



Eeports of work and observations during the summer were 

 next in order, whereupon, — 



The President, after welcoming the members of the Acad- 

 emy to the beginning of another year's meetings, said that he 

 had travelled but little himself, having been largely in the city, 

 engaged in revising the proofs of his monograph upon fossil fishes, 

 now in course of publication by the U. S. Geological Survey 

 after many years of labor and preparation. This work had pre- 

 vented iiim from visiting the Paris Exposition, as he would 

 otherwise have done; and he had only been able to spend a day 

 or two at the American Association's meeting at Toronto. 



Dr. Franz Boas stated that he had been abroad during the 

 spring and early summer, and had subsequently visited the 

 Pacific coast. In Europe, he had studied methods of instruc- 

 tion in geography, as pursued in the gymnasia of Germany and 

 elsewhere. He had then gone to the west coast of Vancouver's 

 Island, examining the affinities of the native tribes, and thence 

 to the interior portion of British Columbia, also for ethnolo- 

 gical researches. 



In reply to a question by the President, Dr. Boas stated that 

 the interior of Vancouver's Island was still unsettled by whites, 

 and wholly occupied by the natives; but that the latter were 

 peaceful and under control, so that no dangers, such as formerly 

 existed, are now encountered in travelling there. 



Mr. Bashford Deane reported upon work carried on under 

 the Fishery Commission, especially in regard to stocking the 

 ponds of Long Island, of which Lake Ronkonkoma is the most 

 important. 



