38 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Twenty-Sixth Meeting, March 17, 1882. 



The President occupied the chair. Forty-five members were 

 present. 



Dr. Elliott Coues read a paper entitled On Recent Advances in 

 Ornithology, on the occasion of laying before the Society, in ad- 

 vance of publication, a complete copy of the work below cited.* 

 Remarks were made by Messrs. Gill, Ward, and Coues. 



Dr. Edward Foreman exhibited a map of the Cretaceous fossil 

 beds of Maryland. 



Second Saturday Lecture, March 18, 1882, 



About six hundred persons listened to the lecture of Prof. Otis T. 

 Mason on the topic : What is Anthropology ? f 



Third Saturday Lecture, March 25, 1882. 



An audience of about six hundred persons listened to the lecture 

 by Prof. J. W. Checkering, Jr., on Contrasts of the Appalachian 

 Mountains.^ 



Twenty-Seventh Meeting, March 31, 1882. 



Prof. Lester F. Ward, V. P., occupied the chair. Eighty mem- 

 bers were present. 



Dr. D. Webster Prentiss read a paper entitled Mesmerism in 



*iSS2. Coues, Elliott. The | Coues Check List | of | North American 

 Birds. I Second Edition, | Revised to Date, and entirely Rewritten, under Direc- 

 tion of the Author, | with a Dictionary of the | Etymology, Orthography, and 

 Orthoepy | of the | Scientific Names, | the Concordance of Previous Lists, and a 

 Catalogue of his | Ornithological Publications. | [Monogram.] | Boston: | Estes 

 and Lauriat. | 1882. — 1 vol., imp. 8vo., pp. 1-165. 



f 1882. Mason, Otis T. What is Anthropology? <The Saturday Lec- 

 tures, &c, pp. 25-43; also separate as Saturday Lecture No. 2. with title page, 

 8vo., pp. 21. 



J 1882. Chickering, JohnW., Jr. Contrasts of the Appalachian Moun- 

 tains. <The Saturday Lectures, &c, pp. 44-59; also separate with title page as 

 Saturday Lecture No. 3, 8vo., 16 pp. 



