96 BULLETIN OF THE 



Mr. C. E. Button made a communication 



ON RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ECONOMY OP EUEL. 



Mr. J. W. Powell read a paper 



ON THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NUMAS. 



{This paper will be published in full in a forlhcomhxj Report to the Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, on the Survey of the Colorado River.) 



63d Meeting. February 14, 18t4. 



The President in tlie Chair. 



The President announced the names of gentlemen recently 

 elected members of the Society. 



Mr. Wm. Harkness read an abstract of a paper 



ON THE DISTRIBUTION OP TEMPERATURE OVER THE SURFACE OP THE 



GLOBE. 



The author presented to the Society by means of a series of 

 diagrams projected on a screen, fac-similes of tables and curves 

 elaborated by himself, and which embodied the results obtained by 

 the study of the annual variations of temperature at over nine 

 hundred stations, embracing about TOGO years of observations. 



( This paper loill he published in fall by the Smithsonian Institution.) 



Mr. Theodore Gill made a communication 



ON THE PRIMATES AND THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN. 



64th Meeting. February 28, 18T4. 



Vice-President W. B. Taylor in the Chair. 

 Mr. Elliott Coues made some remarks 



ON THE STRUCTURE AND HOMOLOGIES OP THE LIMBS, ESPECIALLY IN 



AVES. 



^Following this communication Mr. Theodore Gill made some 



