4 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [oor. 8, 
Pror. J. J. STEVENSON and Dr. Britron remarked further 
on the same subject. 
October 8, 1888. 
The First Vice-President, Pror. O. P. HUBBARD, in the 
chair. 
Twenty-two persons present. 
The letter of Pror. H. LERoy FarrcuHiLp, addressed to the 
Council, resigning the office of Recording Secretary, in conse- 
quence of removal from the city, was read to the meeting by 
his successor in that office, Dr. H. C. Boiron. 
Pror. D. S. Martin spoke of the admirable manner in 
which Prof. Fairchild had discharged the often onerous duties 
of his position, and the obligations of the Academy to him for 
the services so ably rendered. 
It was voted to embody these sentiments in the records of the 
Society, and to send a copy thereof to Prof. Fairchild. 
Several gifts of books were reported. Mrs. ANNA RANDALL 
Dieu. presented her volume ‘‘T'wo Thousand Words not in 
Webster’s Dictionary;” and Dr. Bouton presented two small 
but remarkable pamphlets, which he had procured as duplicates 
from the Librarian of the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes at 
Paris. These were, (1) a leaflet of eight pages by C. S. Rafi- 
nesque, dated Philadelphia, 1838, and containing a list of all 
his works, both actual and prospective, and (2) an Address by 
Doctor Samuel L. Mitchill, the first President of the Lyceum, 
delivered to the Medical Staff of New York, 1820. 
The Librarian, Dr. N. L. Brirron, spoke of the great in- 
terest attaching to these additions to the library. 
Dr. Franz Boas presented the paper of the evening, exhibit- 
ing and describing a series of Indian skulls from British Colum- 
bia, with further illustration in the form of drawings and pho- 
tographs. These were a selection from a large number of skulls 
collected by him in his recent tour in that region, and had been 
procured with special reference both to natural and artificial 
