December 29, 1894. — The Vice-President in the chair. 

 Six members and one visitor present. 



Mr. W. W. Granger presented remarks on " The Mam- 

 mals of the Black Hills and Vicinity." These notes were 

 based upon a collection of about twenty species of small 

 mammals, made by Mr. Granger during the summer of 

 1894. The collection embraced the following species des- 

 cribed as new to science by Dr. J. A. Allen 1 : — Neotoma 

 campestris, N. rupicola, N. grangeri, Sciurus hudsonicus 

 dakotensis, and Arvicola insperatus. Protective coloration 

 was graphically indicated by specimens from the barren 

 " Bad Lands," and from the deep pine forests of the Black 

 Hills. 



January 8, 1895. — Public lecture in the lecture hall of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, by Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman, entitled " A Trip through the Lesser Antilles," 

 with stereopticon illustrations. 



January 22, 1895. — The President in the chair. Six 

 members and ten visitors present. 



J. A. Allen, Ph. D., presented a paper on " The Mam- 

 mals of Southern Arizona." This paper was based on a 

 collection of about fifteen hundred mammals, made in 

 southeastern Arizona, by Mr. W. W. Price, of the Leland 

 Stanford University, and containing seventy species, of 

 which ten have been described as new to science by Dr. 

 Allen. Specimens of nearly all the species mentioned 

 were shown, [See Bull. Am. Mus Nat. History, Vol. VI., 

 1894, pp. 317-322, 347-350, and Vol. VII., 1895, pp. 193- 

 258.] 



Mr. S. H. Chubb stated that he had seen a flock of about 

 one hundred Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) at Bryn Mawr 

 Park, New York, on December 31, 1894. 



February 5, 1895. — Public lecture in the lecture hall of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, by Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn, Sc. D., entitled " The Great West, a Half 

 Million Years Ago," with stereopticon illustrations. 



1 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat.. Hist., Vol. VI., 1894, pp. 322-326. 



