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ing of a tribute to Herbert E. Spencer was 

 the occasion of discussion regarding the 

 Spencer Tolles Fund which had grown to 

 nearly eight hundred dollars. It was the 

 general opinion that a united effort should 

 be made to bring this fund at once to a 

 point where its income would be available 

 for the encouragement of research, and a 

 committee was appointed to carry out the 

 plan. 



The Eeport of the Limnological Commis- 

 sion and papers on various subjects of fresh 

 water biology occupied the afternoon session 

 of Friday, and this program aroused active 

 interest and discussion of the plan offered. 



On Saturday morning the reading of 

 papers was concluded, and the final busi- 

 ness session closed the meeting. The fol- 

 lowing oflBcers were elected : 



President, Professor C. H. Eigenmann, 

 Bloomington, Ind. ; First Vice-President, 

 Chas. M. Vorce, Esq., Cleveland, Ohio ; 

 Second Vice-President, Edward Pennock, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Election Members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. Dr. C. A. Kofoid, Urbana, 111.; 

 John Aspinwall, New York, N". Y. ; Dr. A. 

 G. Field, Des Moines, Iowa. 



After the installation of the President 

 and the customary resolutions of thanks, 

 the Society adjourned. 



The following papei's were presented at 

 the meeting in the order given: 



' Photographing the Spectra of Colored Fluids, ' by 

 Dr. Moses C. White, New Haven, Conn. 



' A Method for the Measurement and Demonstra- 

 tion of Size of Minute Bodies,' hy Professor Henry B. 

 Ward, Lincoln, Nebr. 



' Herbert Spencer's Work,' by Henry E. Howland, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



'Methods in Embryology,' by Professor S. H. 

 Gage, Ithaca, N. Y. 



' A Comparison of the Development of the Larynx 

 in Frogs and Toads, ' by Professor S. H. Gage, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. 



' On the Distribution of Growths in Surface Water 

 Supplies and the Method of Collecting Samples for 

 Examination,' by Dr. F. S. Hollis, Boston, Mass. 



' The Necessity of maintaining a System of Field 

 Work on Surface Water Supplies,' by H. N. Parker, 

 Boston, Mass. 



' The Cladooera of Nebraska, ' by Dr. Chas. Fordyce, 

 University Place, Nebr. 



' Biological Work at the Mount Prospect Labora- 

 tory,' by G. C. Whipple, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



' Some New Forms in the Cave Fauna, ' by Professor 

 C. H. Eigenmann, Bloomington, Ind. 



' The Modern Conception of the Structure and 

 Classification of the Desmidiaceae,' by Professor 

 Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebr. 



' Some North American Hydrachnidae hitherto 

 Undescribed, ' by Dr. R. H. Wolcott, Lincoln, Nebr. 



' Limnological Studies at Flathead Lake,' by Pro- 

 fessor M. J. Elrod, Missoula, Mont. 



' Methods of Producing Color and Tone Eiiects in 

 Lantern Slides ' (illustrated by a series of lantern 

 slides), by John Aspinwall, New York, N. Y. 



'Some Notes on Bibliographic Methods in Micro- 

 scopical Work, ' by Dr. E. H. Ward, Troy, N. Y. 



' A New Ear Fungus of Man, ' by Dr. Eoscoe 

 Pound, Lincoln, Nebr. 



' Methods in Killing and Staining Protozoa, ' by 

 Professor M. J. Elrod, Missoula, Mont. 



' Synthetic Alcohol as a Fixing Agent for Tissues, ' 

 by Dr. T. E. Oertel, Savannah, Ga. 



Heney B. Ward, 



Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 The Birds of Celebes and Neighbouring Islands. 

 By A. B. Meyer and L. W. Wiglesworth. 

 Two Volumes. 4to. Berlin, R. Friedlander 

 & Sohn. 1898. Vol. I., pp. i-xxxii, J -130, 

 1-392, pll. 17 (14 colored), and 7 colored 

 maps ; Vol. II., pp. 393-962, pll. 28, colored. 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth's ' Birds of Cele- 

 bes' marks an era in the history of East India 

 ornithology. It consists of two volumes in 

 quarto, with over eleven hundred pages of 

 text and fifty-two plates and maps, nearly all 

 colored. Although published in Berlin, by the 

 well-known German publishers R. Friedlander 

 & Sohn, it is in excellent idiomatic English, 

 and should thus be especially welcome to Eng- 

 lish readers. In scope and character it is all 

 that could be desired, being in short just the 

 kind of work we should anticipate from such 

 a source, the senior author especially having 

 many years since attained an enviable promi- 

 nence among the leading ornithologists of the 

 world. 



