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[N. S. Vol. LII. No. 1331 



Dr. M. W. Lyon, Dr. "W. E. Matthew, Dr. Jolin C. 

 Merriam, Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer, Mr. Edward A. Preble and Dr. Witmer 

 Stone, directors. 



A program of unusual interest was presented as 

 follows : 



MONDAY, MAT 3 



Morning Session, 10 A.M. 



Modern methods of mammalogical field worTc: 

 Vernon Bailet. Twenty-five minutes. Illus- 

 trated witli apparatus. 



Notes on the howling monTceys and other mammals 

 from British Guiana: William Beebe. Twenty 

 minutes. Illustrated with lantern slides. 



Fetuses of the Gwiana howling monhey: Adolph 

 H. ScHULTZ. Twenty minutes. Illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



Some life histories of African mammals gathered 

 during the Congo expedition: H. Lang. Forty 

 minutes. Illustrated with lantern slides. 



Notes on the mammals of Mount Bainier, Wash- 

 ington: Walter P. Taylor. Thirty minutes. 

 Illustrated with lantern slides. 



MONDAY, MAY 3 



Afternoon Session, S P.M. 

 Besemilances and contrasts lietxveen zoological and 

 paleontological research in mammalogy. Desi/ra- 

 hility of uniform standards and systems in classi- 

 fication, in description, in measurement, in rea- 

 soning: Henry Fairfield Osborn. Fifteen 

 minutes. 

 On the history of tlie gray squirrel: Ernest 



Thompson Seton. Thirty minutes. 

 The Boosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion: Charles C. Adams. Ten minutes. 

 Business session, 3 P.M. (Open only to mem- 

 bers.) 



MONDAY, MAY 3 



Evening Session, 8 P.M. 



Notes on the sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the Pe- 

 ruvian coast : Egbert Ctjshman Murphy. Thirty 

 minutes. Illustrated with lantern slides and mo- 

 tion pictures. 



Preliminary results of the second Asiatic expedi- 

 tion to Chin-a and Mongolia: EoY Chapman An- 

 drews. One hour. Illustrated with lantern 

 slides and motion pictures. 



TUESDAY, MAY 4 



Morning Session, 10 A.M. 

 The mammals of Jamaica: H. E. Anthony. 

 Thirty minutes. Illustrated with lantern slides. 



The Calvert Miocene formation and some of its 

 mammals: William Palmer. Thirty minutes. 

 Illustrated with lantern slides. 



On some ea/rly states in the evolution of mammalian 

 dentition: William K. Gregory. Forty min- 

 utes. Illustrated with lantern slides. 



Some scattered observations about narwhals: Mor- 

 ton P. PoRSHJ). Ten minutes. 



Beginnings of the placental mammals: W. D. 

 Matthew. Twenty-five minutes. Illustrated 

 with lantern slides. 



TUESDAY, MAY 4 



Afternoon Session, S P.M. 



A dissection of a pigmy sperm whale (Kogia) : C. 

 L. Camp and J. P. Chapin. Fifteen minutes. 

 Illustrated with lantern slides. 



(a) Notes on New England. (6) Bison remains 

 in New England, (c) Exhibition of specimens 

 of Myotragns, the remarlcable Pleistocene goat 

 of the Balearic Islands: Glover M. Allen. 

 Twenty-five minutes. Illustrated with photo- 

 graphs and specimens. 



Blue-fox farming and the maintenance of the fur 

 supply : Ned Dearborn. Thirty minutes. 



The fate of the European bison: T. S. Palmer. 

 Twenty minutes. 



Saving the Yellowstone elk herd: E. W. Nelson. 

 Twenty minutes. Illustrated with lantern slides. 



WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 



Members met at The American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History ait 9:30 in the morning, and went to 

 the Bronx Park, where they were conducted 

 through the park and entertained at luncheon as 

 the guests of the New York Zoological Society. 



Hartley H. T. Jackson, 

 Corresponding Secretary 



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