64 BULLETIN OF THE 



33d Meeting. * November 2, 18T2, 



The President in the Chair. 



This being the annual business meeting, the Secretary read the 

 order of proceedings as determined on by the General Committee, 

 and also read the names of those entitled to vote in the election 

 of officers. As the result of the election, Mr. Joseph Henry 

 was declared unanimously re-elected as President. For Yice- 

 Presidents there were elected Messrs. J. B. Hilgard, W. B. 

 Taylor, M. C. Meigs, and J. K. Barnes. As Treasurer, Mr. 

 Peter Parker was unanimously re-elected. Mr. B. F, Craig 

 having declined a renomination for the Secretaryship, there were 

 elected as Secretaries Mr. T, Gill and Mr. S. Newgomb. As 

 members at large of the General Committee, there were elected — 

 N S. Lincoln, S. F. Baird, 



E. B. Elliott, J. H. C. Coffin, 



A. Hall, J. J. Woodward, 



B. F. Craig, A. A. Humphreys, 



T, L. Casey. 



On the close of the election the President, in a few remarks, 

 reviewed the condition and activity of the Society during the 

 past year. 



34th Meeting, November 16, 18T2^ 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Theodore Gill read a paper 



ON THE homologies OF THE SHOULDER GIRDLE OF FISHES. 



{The substance of this communication tvas published in the author''s '■'■ Ar~ 

 rangement of the Families of Fishes," pp. xiii.-xix.. 1872, and, under 

 the title, " On the Homologies of the Shoulder Girdle of the Dipnoans: 

 and other Fishes," in the '^Annals and Magazine of Natural History''^ 

 {London), 4th series, v. 11, pp. 173-178, March, 1873.) 



Mr. W. Harkness read a paper 



ON SOME measurements OF HEIGHTS BY A POCKET ANEROID, 



