186 
And thus, at the present critical juncture of Educational 
Progress, was a very summary ending put to my hopes, of 
realizing for a second time, the most efficient material for 
object teaching, in connection with Natural History and 
Geology. 
The reading of Mr. Hawkins’ paper was followed by 
considerable discussion, in which several members took part. 
Pror. C. A. Joy made some remarks detailing the condition 
and doings of these portions of the Central Park, devoted to 
Natural History, up to the time when Mr. Hawkins took 
charge of the Museum, and subsequent thereto, with the 
present status of affairs. 
The President, Dr. J. 8. NEwBERRY, followed with some re- 
marks illustrative of the great value of Mr. Hawkins’ contribu- 
tions to science, in the restorations of extinct animals which 
he had put up at Sydenham, England, and the interest which 
all Naturalists took in the work he had been engaged upon 
in this city; at the same time expressing the regret which 
he, in common with all interested, felt in the, it was hoped, 
temporary suspension of his labors at the Central Park. 
Farther remarks were made by Hon. E. G. Squier and 
Dr. I. WaAuz, when, on motion of Dr. L. FeucHTWANGER, a 
Committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Joy, Walz and 
Squier, was appointed to draw up resolutions expressive of 
the feelings of the Society, as relating to the work accomplished 
and sketched out to be done by Mr. Hawkins, at the Central 
Park. 
There was laid upon,the table, a donation from Brevt. Lt. 
Col. J. J. Woopwarp, of the Army Medical Museum, 
Washington, D. C.—four Photomicrographs of Microscopic 
Test-objects. 
Pror, A. M. Epwarps remarked upon these photographs, 
and described their peculiarities and what it was intended to 
show by means of them. 
He pointed to the remarkable results obtained by Dr. 
Woodward, as illustrated in these pictures, which showed 
