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Furthermore, the difference of rank among existing forms 
is thus mainly due to the difference of time during which, or 
the number of times which, regeneration has occurred ; the 
difference of direction in which development has taken place 
being due to the modifying or adapting influences with which 
the organism has been surrounded. 
The paper concluded as follows: ‘Man has not been most 
recently created, but earliest. Weare really the descendants, 
or the ascendants, of the oldest inhabitants of our globe.” 
June lst. Business Meeting. 
PresipENT NEWBERRY inthe chair. T'welve persons present. 
On the recommendation of the Committee on Nominations, 
the following gentlemen were elected to membership in the 
Lyceum :— 
As aresident member, Mr. Carlos Cobb. 
As corresponding members, Prof: George H. Cook, of New 
Brunswick, N. J., Prof. Oran Root, of Clinton, N. Y., Prof. 
Albert H. Chester, also of Clinton, Prof: J. W. Dawson, of 
Montreal, Canada, and Mr, James Macfarland. 
The Committee on Publications laid on the table No. 14 of 
Vol. X, of the Annals (the closing part, containing index, 
addenda, ete.), and reported the first number of Vol. XI, as 
in press. Part 3 of the Proceedings (October to December, 
1873, inclusive) was also presented. 
THE PRESIDENT read a letter from the trustees of the 
American Museum of Natural History, inviting the members 
of the Lyceum to attend the ceremony of laying the corner- 
stone of the building for the museum, in Manhattan Square, 
on June 2d. On motion, the invitation was accepted. 
The meteorological reports for the three spring months, as 
recorded by Dr. O. W. Morris, at the Cooper Union, may 
be summed up as follows:— 
Marcu, 1874. Temperature. Pressure. Humidity. 
Maximum 63.5° 30.291 Saturation. 
Minimum aiieg 29.338 21.1° 
Range 46.5° .926 18.9° 
Mean 39.06° 29.837 62.63° 
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