RECORDS OF MEETINGS 381 



Harry Fielding Reid, The Seismograph and What it Teaches. 



Professor Reid described the characteristics of the seismograph, which 

 has now been sufficiently perfected to record strong earthquakes occur- 

 ring at the antipodes. The revelations of the instrument and problems 

 awaiting solution were discussed and what happens at the time of an 

 earthquake was explained. The lecture was illustrated with lantern 

 slides. 



The Section then adjourned. 



Chaeles P. Berkey, 



Secretary. 



LECTUEE. 

 6 December, 1912. " 

 (In co-operation with the American Museum of Natural History.) 

 Hugo de Vries, Experimental Evolution. 



SECTION OF BIOLOGY. 

 9 December, 1912. 



Section met at 8:15 p. m., Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn 

 presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and 

 approved. 



The following programme was then offered : 



C.-E. A. Winslow, A Museum of Living Bacteria. 



A. J. Goldfarb, The Influence of the Nervous System upon 



Growth. 

 A. J. Goldfarb, A New Method of Fusing Eggs of the Same 



Species. 



Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Winslow said in abstract: The American Museum of Natural 

 History is the first museum of its kind to recognize that the relation 

 between man and his microbic foes is fundamentally a problem in 

 natural history and a problem of such interest and importance as to 

 warrant the creation of a special Museum Department of Health. The 

 prime function of this department is of course to present in the form 

 of effective exhibits the main facts about the parasites which cause 



