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Order 3. Phoudota Weber. 

 Order 4. Tubuudentata Flower. 

 A further examination of the literature re- 

 veals the fact that the term Pholidota Weber 

 (1904), comprising the Manidce, is antedated 

 by PnoLrooTA Merrem (" Tentamen syste- 

 MATis Amphibiobum," 1820), applied to the 

 Reptilia. As Squamata Huxley (1872), 

 which also has been frequently used to desig- 

 nate the Manidw, is itseK antedated by 

 Squamata Oppel (1811), applied to an order 

 or superorder (Osborn) of Eeptilia, it seems 

 necessary to adopt some other name for this 

 group. I therefore propose that the order to 

 which the Manidse belong, be called the Lepi- 

 DOTA [Gr. 7i£TTiSu-6(, scaly]. 



Making this change and listing the fami- 

 lies, our classification of the Edentates is as 

 follows : 

 SUPERORDER EDENTATA Vicq d'Azyr. 

 Order 1. T^eniodonta Cope. 



Family Oonoryotidm Wortman. 

 Family StylinodontidcB Marsh. 

 Order 2. Xenabtkra Gill. 

 Suborder Pilosa Flower. 



Family Bradypodidw Bonaparte. 

 Family Megalcmychidw Zittel. 

 Family Megatheriid<B Owen. 

 Family MyrmecophagidcB Bonaparte. 

 Family Orophodontidce Ameghino. 

 Suborder Loricata Flower. 



Family Dasypodidce Bonaparte. 

 Family Glyptodontidoe Burmeister. 

 Order 3. Lepidota Lane. 



Family Manidre Gray. 

 Order 4. TuBULmENTATA Huxley. 



Family Orycteropodidw Bonaparte. 



H. H. Laue 

 State UinrEBSiTT of Oklahoma, 

 NoEMAN, Oklahoma, 

 February 15, 1910 



THE NORTH CAROLINA ACADEMY OF 

 SCIENCE 



Tece ninth annual meeting of the North Caro- 

 lina Academy of Science was held at Wake Forest 

 College, Wake Forest, N. C, on April 29 and 30, 

 1910, with thirty-one members in attendance. The 

 meeting of the executive committee, held on the 

 afternoon of April 29, was followed by a general 

 meeting for the reading and discussing of papers. 

 At night in Wingate Memorial Hall, the academy 



was formally welcomed to Wake Forest College 

 by President W. L. Poteat. President W. C. 

 Coker, of the academy, then delivered the presi- 

 dential address, " Science Teaching in the Schools 

 and Colleges of North Carolina." 



Because of their interest to the general public, 

 the following papers were then given with lantern 

 slide illustrations and diagrams : " Pellagra," a 

 preliminary report, by Professor J. J. Wolfe, of 

 Trinity College ; " Halley's Comet," by Professor 

 A. H. Patterson, of the University of North Caro- 

 lina; "The Comet, What is It?" by Professor 

 John F. Lanneau, of Wake Forest College. 



On Saturday morning, April 30, the academy 

 reconvened for the annual business meeting. The 

 reports of the secretary-treasurer and of various 

 committees were heard. Forty-six new members 

 were received into the academy. These, together 

 with the 43 former members, give a total mem- 

 bership of 89. The report of the treasurer showed 

 the finances of the academy to be in a very flour- 

 ishing condition. A large and representative com- 

 mittee was appointed to collect data and report 

 to the next meeting of the academy a course of 

 study in the sciences for the high schools of the 

 state. It is the purpose of the academy to trans- 

 mit this with its recommendation to the state 

 superintendent of public instruction and to the 

 North Carolina Teachers' Assembly. 



The following officers were chosen for the en- 

 suing year: 



President— W. H. Pegram, Trinity College, Dur- 

 ham, N. C. 



Vice-president — W. S. Rankin, State Board of 

 Health, Raleigh, N. C. 



Secretary-Treasurer— 'E. W. Gudger, State Nor- 

 mal College, Greensboro, N. C. 



Executive Committee — F. L. Stevens, A. & M. 

 College, W. Raleigh, N. C; H. H. Brimley, State 

 Museum, Raleigh, N. C. ; H. V. Wilson, Univer- 

 sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. 



In point of attendance, number of new mem- 

 bers added, number of papers read, general in- 

 terest as shown in the discussion of papers, this 

 meeting excelled any since the founding of the 

 academy. 



The following papers were presented: 



The Cause of Pellagra (a preliminary report) : 

 Jas. J. Wolfe, Trinity College, Durham, N. C. 

 Believing that pellagra must be an infectious 

 disease, and that, because of its generalized na- 

 ture, the organism was most likely to occur in 

 the blood, the writer, last September, began a 



