9.6,0 The American Naturalist. [November, 



attractions doubtless were to blame for the frequently slim 

 attendance at the meetings. 



The close of the session was marked by the departure of a 

 large proportion of the members for Moscow, the starting 

 point of the three excursions which journeyed by different 

 routes toward the Caucasus and the Crimea. Upward of four 

 hundred people participated in these excursions which pro- 

 mised so many and so varied interests. 



Reprinted from The American Naturalist, November, 1897. 



