24 TRANSACTIONS OP THE 



Dr. Miles Rock read a paper On the Effacing "Bower of Trop- 

 ical Forest Growth in Trinidad Island. 1 



Capt. Edward P. Lull, U. S. N., read a paper On the Deter- 

 mination of the Age of Prehistoric Remains. 2 



Prof. C. V. Riley read a letter from a correspondent, Mr. H. P. 

 Bee, in San Antonio, Texas, relating to the discovery of a remark- 

 able cave in a mountain standing in the valley of the Rio Nazas, State 

 of Durango, Mexico. 3 



Fourteenth Regular Meeting, December 16, 1879. 



President Powell related the folk-story of the "Tar Baby" and 

 the Indian story of the "Three Cranberries."* 



Dr. Elmer R. Reynolds read a paper entitled Turtle-Back Celts 

 and their Uses.* 



Fifteenth Regular Meeting, January 6, 1880. 



Mr. J. D. McGuire read a paper entitled Shell-Heaps of South 

 River, Maryland. 5 



Sixteenth Regular and Second Annual Meeting, January 



20, 1880. 



The annual election of officers took place, with the following 



result : 



President J. W. POWELL. 



M. TONER. 



Vice-Presidents 



J GEORGE A. OTIS. 

 ' 1 GARRICK MALLERY. 



[WILLS DeHASS. 

 Corresponding Secretary . . OTIS T. MASON. 

 Recording Secretary ., . ELMER R. REYNOLDS. 



Treasurer JOHN C. LANG. 



Curator FRANK H. CUSHING. 



fE. M. GALLAUDET. 



Council at Large 



H. C. YARROW. 

 C. A. WHITE. 

 G. K. GILBERT. 

 J. M. WILSON. 

 [ELLIOTT COUES. 



1 Loc. cit., p. 26. 2 Loc. cit., p. 27. 



8 Loc. cit., p. 29; cf. "Bull. No. 3,U. S. Entomological Commission," p. 132. 



i Loc. cil., p. 30. 5 Loc. cit., p. 31. 



