46 The Rodent JR in Evolution. 



On motion the following program prepared for this 

 meeting wavS postponed until some future date : 



1. Physical features of the region around Lake of the 

 Woods, Professor MacMillan. 



2^ The Succession of Paleozoic formations in sovith- 

 eastern Minnesota. 



November 13, 1894. 



Vice President Sudduth presided. 



Thirty-one persons present. 



The subject for the evening was a paper by Dr. Chas. N. 

 Hewitt, chairman of the section of Sanitary Science, ''A 

 city water supply from the viewpoint of a health officer." 



After the paper read by Dr. Hewitt, an explanation of several statisti- 

 cal charts prepared for the occasion was given ; the subject was further 

 discussed by E. S. Kelley, Health officer of the city, N. H. Winchell, Geo. C. 

 Andrews, Dean Sudduth and others. 



A record of the weather of Minneapolis has been pre- 

 pared for the Academy's Bulletin and it will appear in the 

 following pages. Mr. William Cheney for many years a 

 voluntary observer and correspondent of the U. S. Signal 

 Service compiled the record [See Paper H] 



There is also an abstract of the correspondence of 

 Messrs. Bourns and Woacester edited to form a sort of 

 itinerary of the Menage Scientific Expedition to the Phil- 

 ippine Islands. This forms Paper I. 



[Paper A.] 



THE RODENTIA IN EVOLUTION — A PRELIMINARY 



STUDY. 



WITH PLATE I. 



H. L. Osborn. 



It is the great objection constantly brought against 

 evolution by those who have not accepted the doctrine, that 

 no cases of evolutions now in process can be produced. 

 Such objectors claim with reason that evolution, if it be 

 true, must be universal, not onh^ in range of application. 



