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at the Park of several visiting species of wild birds, includ- 

 ing the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), Briinnich's Murre 

 ( Uria lomvia), and the Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycti- 

 corax nycticorax nwvius). 



December 10, 1901. — No quorum present. 



December 24, 1901. — This being Christmas Eve the usual 

 meeting was omitted. 



January 14, 1902. — No quorum present. Dr. W. D. 

 Matthew, however, read before an interested audience his 

 announced paper on " Climate and Evolution." 



January 28, 1902. — The President in the chair. Seven 

 members and six visitors present. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union thanking the Linnaean Society for 

 hospitalities extended to the Union during its last Congress. 



The Chairman of the Lunch Fund Committee reported that 

 the members of the Society had responded in a most liberal 

 manner to the call for subscriptions and that after all bills 

 had been paid a balance of 1157.20 remained. He recom- 

 mended that this balance be placed in a savings bank as a 

 special lunch fund for future use, and such disposition was 

 made of it by a vote of the Society. 



Mr. F. William Hyde was elected a Resident Member of 

 the Society. 



Mr. R. L. Ditmars read a paper entitled " The Care of Sick 

 Animals in the Bronx Zoological Park." He gave a very 

 interesting account of the various diseases from which the 

 animals in the Park have suffered and of the remedies which 

 have been tried. An obscure disease which resulted in the 

 death of all but one of the Orang-outans, last summer, was 

 finally traced to the large Galapagos Turtles which were the 

 hosts of an amoeba harmless to them but fatal to the Orangs 

 who became infected, doubtless, by playing with the turtles 

 through the bars. Mr. Ditmars also described several surgi- 

 cal operations, with the use of chloroform, one on the face 



