April 28, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



617 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ICHTHYOLOGISTS 

 AND HERPETOLOGISTS 



On March 8, 1916, at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, occurred the inaugu- 

 ration and first general meeting of a new biolog- 

 ical organization, ' ' The American Society of 

 Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. ' ' 



Officers were elected as follows : 



President, Professor Bashford Dean. 



Vice-presidents, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, Dr. 

 Barton W. Evermaun, Dr. Charles E. Eastman. 



Treasurer, Mr. Eaymond L. Ditmars. 



Secretary, Mr. John T. Nichols, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



Fublieation Committee of Copeia, Messrs. J. T. 

 Nichols, Henry W. Fowler and Dwight Franklin. 



According to the by-laws adopted, the object of 

 the society shall be to advance the science of 

 fishes, batraehians and reptiles. Members shall be 

 chosen from among persons interested in the sub- 

 jects, and the business of the association shall be 

 vested in the hands of a board of governors who 

 are not to exceed fifty in number. Membership 

 dues are two dollars a year, a certain proportion 

 of the receipts being assigned to the support of 

 the publication Copeia, which has been issued 

 monthly since December, 1913, to advance the sci- 

 ence of cold-blooded vertebrates. 



The president of the society. Dr. Dean, presided 

 at the morning and afternoon sessions of the pub- 

 lic meeting, during the presentation of the follow- 

 ing twenty -two papers : 



"The iStatus and Needs of Our Study of 

 Fishes," by Professor Bashford Dean. 



"Origin of the Anura" (lantern slides), by Dr. 

 W. K. Gregory. 



"The Life-history and Habits of the Star-gazer, 

 Astroscopus" (lantern slides), by Professor Ulric 

 Dahlgren. 



"Some Features of Ornamentation in the 

 Cyprinodonts, ' ' by Mr. Henry W. Fowler. 



' ' On the Discovery of the Great Lake Trout, 

 Cristivomer namaycush, in the Pleistocene of the 

 Middle West," by Dr. L. Hussakof. 



"Hibernation and Food Supply," by Dr. W. 

 H. Ballon. 



' ' Some Life Habits of the Hog-nosed Snake ' ' 

 (lantern slides), by Mr. J. Fletcher Street. 



" Anorrudops, a New Genus," by Mr. C. F. 

 Silvester. 



"The Year's Herpetological Activity at the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology," by Mr. G. K. 

 Noble. 



' ' The Dean Bibliography of Fishes about to be 

 published by the American Museum, ' ' by Dr. 

 Charles K. Easfcman. 



"Development and Habits of Amhystoma tig- 

 rinum on Long Island" (lantern slides), by Mr. 

 George P. Engelhardt. 



' ' Some Congo Amphibians and Eeptiles ' ' (lan- 

 tern slides), by Mr. James P. Qiapin. 



' ' Some Eeptiles of the Colorado Desert, with 

 Eemarks on Their Associational Distribution and 

 Environmental Relationships," by Mr. Charles L. 

 Camp. 



"Native Congo Fisheries" (lantern slides), by 

 Mr. Herbert Lang. 



' ' Collecting Amphibia and Eeptiles in Florida, ' ' 

 by Mr. Eichard F. Deekert. 



"Snakes of Santo Domingo" (lantern slides), 

 by Mr. Clarence E. Halter. 



"Collecting in Borneo" (lantern slides), by Mr. 



D. D. Streeter. 



"Notes on Long Island Sharks," by Mr. J. T. 

 Nichols and Mr. E. C. Murphy. (By title.) 



' ' Albinism in the Western Gopher Snake, ' ' by 

 Mr. Tracy I. Storer. (Eead by Mr. C. L. Camp.) 



' ' The Need of a Critical Study of the Squama- 

 tion of Serpents," by Captain J. C. Thompson. 

 (By title.) 



"Conservation of Eeptile Life," by Mr. P. D. 



E. Euthling. (By title.) 



' ' Eeptiles and Amphibia Collected in the Painted 

 Desert" (illustrated with specimens and photo- 

 graphs), by Mr. Dwight Franklin. 



Egbert C. Murphy 



the indiana academy of science 

 The Indiana Academy of Science met in Indi- 

 anapolis, December 3-4, and presented the follow- 

 ing papers: 



President W. A. Cogshall 's address on ' ' The 

 Origin of the Universe. ' ' 



THE SYMPOSIUM ON HEREDITY 



"A E6sum€ of the Work on Heredity," by Dr. 



F. Payne. 



' ' Fifteen Years of Mendelism ; Mendelism, the 

 Key to the Architecture of the Germplasm, ' ' by 

 Dr. Eoscoe E. Hyde. 



' ' Heredity in Man, ' ' by Dr. Charles B. Daven- 

 port. 



"A Memoir of Donaldson Bodine, " by H. W. 

 Anderson. 



"Memoir of Josiah T. Seovel," by Charles E. 

 Dryer. 



' ' Twelve of Nature 's Beauty Spots in Indiana ' ' 

 (lantern), by Edward Barrett. 



