February 12, 1895.— The Vice-President in the chair. 

 Eight members present. 



A Committee was appointed to draft resolutions upon 

 the recent death of George N. Lawrence, an Honorary 

 Member of the Society. 



Louis B. Bishop, M. D., presented two short papers, 

 " Ay 'thy a marila or Ay thy a marila nearctica?" and "An 

 Apparently Undescribed Plumage of the Surf Scoter.' 7 [See 

 "Auk," Vol. XII., pp. 293-297. 



Mr. L. S. Foster mentioned the capture of a Black-cap- 

 ped Petrel {ALstrelata hasitata) at New Paltz, Ulster 

 County, New York, on January 26, 1895. [See " Auk," 

 Vol. XII., 1895, p. 179.] 



William C. Braislin, M. D., stated that he had captured 

 a Savanna Sparrow (Ammodramus sandzvichensis savan- 

 na) at Flatbush, New York, on January 30 1895, and that 

 he had observed a Phoebe (Sayomis phcebe) at Crosswicks, 

 near Trenton, New Jersey, on December 26, 1894. 



February 26, 1895. — The President in the chair. Ten 

 members and eight visitors present. 



The committee to draft resolutions upon the death of 

 George N. Lawrence, reported as follows : 



" Mr. George Newbold Lawrence, the eminent American 

 ornithologist, and an Honorary Member of this Society, 

 died at his residence in New York City, on January 17, 

 1895, m ms eighty-ninth year. For nearly fifty years he 

 devoted his leisure from business pursuits to ornithological 

 investigations, forming a collection of tropical American 

 birds almost unrivalled in extent outside of public museums. 



" This collection, now the property of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, will prove of inestimable service 

 to science, containing, as it does, not only the types of most 

 of his own species, but consisting of material now historic, 

 from having been the basis of his work and carrying with it 

 his identifications. So that, while death has removed him 

 from earthly associations, his works will long prove a bless- 

 ing to those laboring in his chosen field. 



" To students of North American ornithology he is best 



