America and Greenland." [Published in Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat, Hist., Vol. XIV, 1901, pp. 69-86, pll. xii-xvii and figg. 

 in text.] He exhibited skulls of two distinct species of 

 Musk-Oxen ; one, the common species from the Hudson Bay 

 country ; the other from western Greenland, collected by one 

 of the Peary expeditions and representing a new species. 



February 12, 1902. — The President in the chair. Eight 

 members and fourteen visitors present. 



The Lecture Committee reported that the committee had 

 arranged for two illustrated lectures to be given at the 

 American Museum: one on Feb. 21st., 1901, by Prof. C. L. 

 Bristol; the other on Feb. 28th, 1901, by Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam. 



Mr. R. L. Ditmars presented a paper entitled " Collecting 

 Snakes in South Carolina." Mr. Ditmar's talk treated of a 

 collecting trip made to South Carolina during the summer of 

 1900 in the interests of the New York Zoological Society. 

 He spoke of the different species of snakes met with, of their 

 habits and of the various methods employed in their capture. 

 He exhibited specimens of thirteen of the species obtained. 



February 21, 1901. — Public lecture in the lecture hall of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, by Prof. C. L. 

 Bristol, entitled " The Sea-gardens of Bermuda," with stere- 

 opticon illustrations. 



February 26, 1901. — The President in the chair. Seven 

 members and four visitors present. 



Prof. Herman C. Bum pus was elected a Resident Member 

 of the Society. 



Mr. John Rowley presented a paper entitled " The Mam- 

 mals of West Chester County, New York." [Published in 

 full at p. 31, this Abstract]. 



February 28, 1901. — Public lecture in the lecture hall of 

 the American Museum of Natural History by Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, entitled " A Naturalist on the Coast of Alaska," 

 with stereopticon illustrations. 



