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thic, John G. McKendrick. On the hitherto unknown mode of oviposition in 

 the Carabidse, C. V. Riley. Preliminary notes on the delicacy of the special 

 senses, E. H. S. Bailey and E. L. Nichols. The adventitious inflorescence of 

 curcuta glomerata, C. E. Bessey. On a special function of the external third of 

 the lenticular nucleus of the corpus striatum, Charles Porter Hart. Observations 

 upon the amphibia brain, from a comparison of amphiuma, menopoma, meno- 

 branchus, Henry F. Osborne. Fertility in hybridization, R. B. Roosevelt. On 

 tbe skin of insect, C. S. Minot. Hibernation of the lower vertebrates, A. W. 

 Butler. The develoyment of limulus, J. S. Kingsley. Do the cerebellum and 

 oblongata represent two encephalic segments or only one ? Burt G. Wilder. On 

 the morphology and evolution of the tail of osseous fishes, John A. Ryder. On 

 the mammalian affinities of the saurians of the Peruvian epoch, Edward D. Cope. 

 The hood of the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata), C. Hart Merriam. Remarks 

 of delegates from the Ornithologischer verein in Wein, C. Hart Merriam. Polarity 

 of leaves of Erigeron Canadense, W. J. Beal. On some points in the develop- 

 ment of pelagic teleostean eggs, George Brook, Jr. The dynamics of the insect 

 crust, George Macloskie. Some questions in anatomical nomenclature, Burt G. 

 Wilder. Experimental researches on the so-called thought transference, L. F. 

 Barrett. Alleged sensory effects of magnetism, L. F. Barrett. On the finger- 

 muscles in Megaptera longimana, and other whales, John Struthers. On the pres- 

 ence of eyes and other sense organs on the shells of chitonidae, H. N. Moseley. 

 Utncularia vulgarus with young teleostean fishes entrapped in the bladder-traps of 

 that plant, H. N, Moseley. Feathers of the Dodo, H. N. Moseley. Larval 

 theory of the origin of tissue, Alpheus Hyatt. Objections to some commonly 

 accepted views of heredity, Alpheus Hyatt. Structure and affinities of Beatricea, 

 Alpheus Hyatt. Structure of the siphon in the Endoceratidge, Alpheus Hyatt. 

 Researches on growth and death, Charles S. Minot. 



Section G (Histology and Microscopy) spent the day in the hall of the Col- 

 lege of Physicians. T. G. Wormley, of Philadelphia, presided and Romyn 

 Hitchcock, of New York City, acted as secretary. Following are the papers : 



Methods of cultivating rnicro-organisms, George M. Sternberg. Remarks 

 on fluid and gelatinous media for cultivating micro-organisms, with description of 

 Salmon's new culture tube and demonstration of the method of using it, R. Hitch- 

 cock. On the reproduction of short standards of length, William A. Rogers. 

 On some new microscopic devices, R. H. Ward. Recent studies on the theory 

 of the microscope, and their practical results as regards the use of the microscope 

 in scientific investigations, R. Hitchcock. On some points in microtomy, John 

 A. Ryder. Upon a microscopic method of studying the amphibian brain, Henry 

 F. Osborne. Histology of Lingula, H. G. Beyer. Description of the Schroder 

 camera lucida, R. Hitchcock. Demonstrations of perforations in the cellulose 

 walls of plant-cells, Louis Elsberg. Electric illumination for microscope, with 

 practical illustration, W. H. Walmsley. Celloidine as an imbedding mass, Wm. 

 Libbey, Jr. An immersion apparatus for the determination of the temperature 

 of the critical point in the fluid cavities of minerals, A, A. JuUen. 



