THE LINN^AN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



was fouiuled March 7, 1878, b\' the following-named gentlemen : — 



H. B. l^ailey, Franklin Henner, Eugene P. Bickncll, 



John Burroughs, Harold Hcrrick. Dr. Frederick H. Hoadley, 



F>nest Ingersoll, Ncwbold T. Lawrence, C. Hart Merriam, 

 William C. Osborn. 



The original Officers were 



C. Hart Merria.m, 

 Harold Herrick, 

 Ernest Ingersoll, 

 H. B. Bailey, 



President. 



Viee-President. 



Secretary. 



Carres. Secy and Treasurer. 



Abstracts of the proceedings of the Society, and papers read before it, 

 have appeared in different scientific serials, but much valuable matter 

 has been withheld from lack of a direct medium of publication. The 

 necessity for such an organ has now become manifest, and the present 

 volume is designed to be the first of a series in which papers coming before 

 the Society may be permanently preserved. 



The Frontispiece accompanying this numbei- is after an old engraving in tlie possession of 

 Mr. L. S. Foster, by whom it is conlrilniled. 



