PROCEEDINGS. 29 



Tenth Meeting, April 8, 1881. 



The President occupied the chair, except when reading his paper, 

 at which time he was replaced by Vice President Ward. Twenty- 

 three members were present. 



Prof. Gill read a paper entitled A Critical Rkview of Gun- 

 ther's Study of Fishes,* and a short discussion upon the merits 

 of this article ensued, participated in by Messrs. Goode, Gill and 

 Ward. 



Eleventh Meeting, April 22, 1881. 



The President occupied the chair, and thirty-eight members were 

 present. 



A committee of the Council submitted the following report upon 

 the formation of sections, in accordance with one of the provisions 

 of the Constitution : 



The committee recommends, (1.) That five sections be formed as follows: I, 

 Vertebrates; II, Articulates; III, Mollusks ; IV, Radiates; V, Plants. For 

 these sections the following members are suggested as chairmen : I, Mr. Goode ; 

 II, Prof. Riley; III, Mr. Dall ; IV, Mr. Rathbun ; V, Prof. Ward. (2.) The 

 members of the Society shall be requested to inform the Secretary what section 

 or sections they desire toco-operate with. (3.) New members on joining the 

 Society shall be requested to signify to the Secretary what departments of Biology 

 they are each respectively interested in. Signed by the Committee : C. V. Riley, 

 O. T. Mason, George Vasey, G. Brown Goode, Robert Ridgway. 



The President announced that the temporary chairman would be 

 authorized to call meetings of the sections, and that members were 

 expected to hand in their decisions as to the sections which they 

 desire to join. 



Dr. George M. Sternberg, U. S. A., Secretary of the National 

 Board of Health, read a paper entitled A Fatal Form of Septi- 



*i88i. Gill, Theodore. Reprinted from the "Forest and Stream." | 



I Giinther's | Literature and Morphography of Fishes. | A review of | Dr. 



Gunther's introduction to the | study of Fishes. | | By Theodore Gill, M. A., 



M. D., Ph. D., I Member of the National Academy of Sciences, etc., etc. | 



I New York : | Forest & Stream Publishing Co., | 18S1. l2tno., pp. 16. 



See also The Critic, 1, (May 21, 1SS1,) pp. 132-3; The New York Times, May 

 29, 1881 ; Forest 6° Stream, XVI, p. 428, (June 30, 1S81;) Science, VII, pp. 

 323-6, (July 9, 1881 ;) The Nation, XXXIII, pp. 120-2, (August II, 18S1.) 



