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(Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) in a new locality, the Myrica 

 Grove on the summit of the First Watchung Mountain between 

 Westfield and Summit, February 4. 



Dr. Wm. K. Gregory gave the Society a lecture* on '^The 

 Evolution of the Human Face." With lantern-slide illus- 

 trations, and beginning with Paramecium (which has the 

 first feature of a face, the mouth), he traced the successive 

 appearance of the eyes and other features, culminating with 

 the prominent chin, which appears only in modern man. 

 While a true face is found at least as low as the insects, the 

 mammals alone have a muscular face and therefore the only 

 face capable of changing expressions. The speaker showed 

 that the change from the anthropoid face was gradual through 

 that of primitive man to our own, and involved chiefly in- 

 creased cranial capacity, reduction of the supra-orbital ridges, 

 and retreating of the whole face from a position almost wholly 

 farther forward than the brain-case to one under it. Discus- 

 sion followed. 



March 13, 1917. — Annual Meeting. The President in the 

 chair. One Honorary Member (Dr. A. K. Fisher), twenty- 

 five Resident Members (Dr. Dwight, Dr. Morris and Messrs. 

 Abbott, Chapin, Cleaves, Davis, Fleischer, Gladden, Granger, 

 Helme, Hix, F. W. Hyde, F. E. Johnson, J. M. Johnson, Lang, 

 Marks, Miller, Murphy, J. T. Nichols, L. N. Nichols, Phihpp, 

 Rogers, Thayer, Weber, and Woodruff) and seventeen visitors 

 present. The meeting followed immediately the Fifth Annual 

 Dinner, held in the Mitla Room of the American Museum and 

 attended by twenty-fivef members and fourteen guests. 



Mr. Leo E. Miller, whose name had been proposed at the 

 previous meeting, was elected to Resident Membership. 



Mr. Rogers proposed, and it was unanimously voted, with 

 applause, that the name of Mr. William Dutcher be trans- 

 ferred from the list of Resident to that of Honorary Members. 



The Secretary read the resignation from Resident Member- 

 ship of Mr. Geer and of Mr. Harper, owing to their present 

 residence in Boston and Washington respectively. 



Mr. Cleaves proposed the name of Mr. Walt F. McMahon for 



* See this title in Amer. Mus. Journal, XVII, 376-388. 

 t Mr. Philipp was not present. 



