| TABLE OF CONTENTS—Conrrnurp. 
PAGH. 
The Zone of Asteroids and the Ring of Saturn. By Daniel Kirkwood. 263 
| Obituary notice of John Forsyth Meigs. By Wm. Pepper, M.D..... 266 
Stated Meeting, October 19.....2...+ iiss haw EieOO 
Stated Meeting, November 2...ce.cevvecesace 282 
On Kintze’s Fire-damp Indicator. By @. A. Ashburner....... Sie. 1 eOO 
| The Zeisberger and Perleus MSS........... Rarer EN dln Sewn 285 
Obituary notice of Oswald Herr. By Leo Lesquerewa...........4- . 286 
Stated Meeting, November 16..... Piya sana 290 
Obituary notices of John L, LeConte. J. P. Lesley and George H. Horn 291 
Stated Meeting, November 16 (continued)..... 800 
Aerial Ships, Byes Dhayer, OC. Bis. swisia de cess sls + Oe ae 301 
| Section of Chemung Rocks at Le Roy, Bradford County, Pennsyl- 
Weamiae By As De ea vod vases Lass REO Urals UD lature be cur uni ye 304. 
| Stated Meeting, December 7...... tinea Ate 306 
On the Distribution of the Loup Fork Formation in New Mexico. 
BY EA Wa CODE Uma an bie rd bee aly Sie COMM AN Sida eld alin iy wal te eae BUS 
Second Addition to the Knowledge of the Puerco Epoch. #.D. Oope 809 
On the Trituberculate Type of Tooth in the Mammalia. #. D. Cope 324. 
On the Synchronous Multiplex Telegraph. By Hdwin J. Houston... 326 
Stated Meeting, December 21, 1883.........++ 829 
A Note Respecting the Correct Name of the Last Letter of the Eng- 
Teh Aloha bet. “BY ene Piney I «al ecwieis rere diy Ui 6 veel ones 330 
The Microscopic Examination of Timber, with regard to its Strength. 
By Frank M. Day.. ee eiecbiris WUT na uC Geena ents SA a 333 
" Blaved Weathag, Neon YO OAUG wate Feat AN 843 
Note of a Quartz Pebble found in his Coal Bed, by J. # Mansfield.. 348 
Note of drawings of Mr. Mansfield’s Eurypterids from Coal Slates, 
by George Simpson. . navel Se Kew!) 6 9 iyeruie eect cers encceveres O40 
On the Meaning of the ‘Bet thule By Jed LOSE ys vcie ls else bie y at oad: 
Election of Officers for 1884............. aeead opie Vel We Web Gate ah meee 
EXTRACT FROM THE By-Laws. 
CHAPTER XII. 
OF THE MAGELLANIC FUND. 
Sxorron 1. John Hyacinth de Magellan, in London, having in the year 
1786 offered to the Society, as a donation, the sum of two hundred guineas, 
to be by them vested in a secure and permanent fund, to the end that the 
interest arising therefrom should be annually disposed of in premiums, to 
