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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 55. 



D., Professor Descriptive and Surgical Anat- 

 omy, Cincinnati College of Medicine and 

 Surgerj^ John Lindsay, M. D., Assistant 

 Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of 

 Pennsylvania. Alfred L. T. Schaper, De- 

 monstrator of Histology and Embryology, 

 Harvard Medical School. Geo. D. Stewart, 

 M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy, Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical College. B. B. Stroud, 



D. Sc, Instructor in Physiology, Vertebrate 

 Zoology and Neurology, Cornell University. 

 Joseph P. Tunis, A. B., M. D., Assistant 

 Demonstrator of Anatomy, University 

 Pennsylvania. George Woolsey, M. D., 

 Professor Anatomy, Universitj^ of City of 

 New York. 



The following were elected to Honorary 

 Membership : Prof Wm. Henry Flower, 

 London, England ; Sir Geo. Murray Hum- 

 phry, Cambridge, England. 



The following members resigned : Tracy 



E. Clark, B. S., Professor of Natural His- 

 tory, Clinton Liberal Institute, Ft. Plain, 

 N. y., and Maurice Howe Eichardson, M. 

 D., Assistant Professor Anatomy, Harvard 

 Medical School. 



Dr. Frank Baker, of "Washington, was 

 elected President for the next term ; Dr. 

 Addinell Hewson, of Philadelphia, Delegate 

 to the Executive Committee of the Congress 

 of American Physicians and Surgeons ; and 

 Dr. A. D. Bevan, of Chicago, a member of 

 the Executive Committee. Dr. Geo. S. 

 Huntington, of New York City, was added 

 to the Committee on the Table at Naples. 



The Committee on Anatomical Nomen- 

 clature made the following report : 



The Committee report general progress 

 in the consideration of the complex subject 

 entrusted to them and express the opinion 

 that substantial improvement will result 

 from the work of the Committee of the 

 Anatomisclier Geselhchaft.. 



Your committee recommend to anato- 

 mists that, other things being equal, terms 

 consisting of a single word each be em- 



ployed rather than terms of two or more 

 words. Harrison Allen, Chairman; Thomas 

 Dwight, Frank Baker, Frederick H. Ger- 

 rish, Burt G. Wilder, Secretary. 



The committee on the collection and 

 preservation of anatomical material, con- 

 sisting of J. Ewing Mears, J. D. Bryant 

 and Thomas Dwight, made the report which 

 is appended (see page 77). 



The Secretary was instructed to have a 

 copj' of the amended report and a copy of 

 the Presidential address sent to the Pro- 

 fessors and Demonstrators of Anatomy in 

 the United States and Canada. 



The Secretary reported that there were 

 115 active members and live honorary. 



The following papers were read: 



1. ' Myology of the extremities of Lemur 

 Bruneus.' Illustrated by drawings and 

 casts of muscles. Dr. George S. Hunting- 

 ton, New York City. 



2. ' History of the Ciliary Muscle.' Dr. 

 Frank Baker j Washington, D. C. 



3. 'Absence of Fibrous Pericardium of 

 left side.' Illustrated by specimen. Dr. 

 Addinell Hewson, Philadelphia, Pa. 



4. ' The Descriptive Anatomy of the Hu- 

 man Heart.' Dr. Wm. Keiller, Galveston, 

 Texas. 



5. ' Nomenclature of Nerve Cells.' Dr. 

 Frank Baker, Washington, D. C. 



6. ' The Cerebral Fissures of Two Philos- 

 ophers.' Illustrated by specimens and 

 photographs. Dr. B. G. Wilder, Ithaca., 

 N. Y. 



7. ' The Human Paroccipital Fissure; 

 Should it be Recognized and so Designated ?' 

 Illustrated by specimens and photographs. 

 Dr. Wilder. 



8. 'Practical Histology for Large Classes.' 

 Dr. Chas. S. Minot, Boston, Mass. 



9. ' Some Novel Methods of Description 

 of the Human Skull.' Dr. Harrison Allen, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



10. ' Fossa Capitis Femoris, with Observa- 

 tions on the Trechanteric Fossa.' lUus- 



