1888.] 30u 
Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urge- 
schichte, Physiologische Gesellschaft, K. P. Meteorologisches 
Institut, Berlin; Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen; 
K. Sachsischer Alterthumsverein, Verein fiir Erdkunde, Dres- 
den; Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Emden; Oberhessische 
Gesellschaft fiir Natur und Heilkunde, Giessen; Prof. Japetus 
S. Steenstrup, Copenhagen; R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome; 
Station Séricicole, Montpellier ; Société de |’ Histoire de France, 
Paris; Royal Dublin Society; Rev. Edward EH. Hale, Rox- 
bury, Mass.; Conn. Historical Society, Hartford; Prof. W. D. 
Whitney, New Haven; Dr. Charles B. Dudley, Altoona; Rev. 
Dr. Geo. W. Anderson, Rosemont; Dr. Benjamin Sharp, Phila- 
delphia. 
A letter with change address from Der Naturforscher to 
Die Wissenschaftliche Wochenschrift, Berlin (N. W. 6), 
Preussen. 
The Committee on Publication reported that it had exam- 
ined the paper of Prof. Branner and was of the opinion that it 
should be published, which, on motion, was so ordered. 
The Special Committee appointed to examine-a paper for 
the Transactions by Dr. R. A. Hare, entitled “The Pathology, 
Clinical History and Diagnosis of Diseases of the Mediastinum 
other than those of the Heart and Aorta,” reported that it was 
not desirable for publication, being too technical; and, on mo- 
tion, the Committee was discharged and paper returned to 
the author. 
Dr. D. G. Brinton read, by appointment, an obituary notice 
of the late Philip Howard Law. 
Prof. Cope presented a paper by Charles R. Keyes (Burling- 
ton, Iowa), on “The Attachment of Platyceras to Pallio Crin- 
oids and its Effects in Modifying the Form of the Shell.” 
A paper by Prof. Charles Sprague Sargent, Cambridge, 
Mass., entitled “‘The Diary of André Michaux in the United 
States and Canada, 1785-1796, with an Introduction and 
Notes,” was presented through the Secretaries. 
On motion, the paper was referred to a special Committee 
