vi iMinutes of Proceedings. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, March 30, 1887. 



Mr. H. Bolus, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following presents were announced and the thanks of the 

 Society voted to the donors : 

 From Smithsonian Institution : 

 Smithsonian Report, 1884, 2 vols. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Nos. 96-123. 

 Laws and Regulations of the American Philosophical Society. 

 Register of Papers published in the Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 

 List of Members of the American Philosophical Society from its 



formation to March 15, 1880. 

 List of Surviving Members of the American Philosophical 



Society on March 5, 1886. 

 Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. YIII., 



Nos. 1-4, Vol. IX., No. 1. 

 Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. II., No. 5. 

 The Rev. G. H. R. Fisk exhibited a snake caught near the Black 

 River — probably a young specimen of the " Cross Snake." 



He also read a few notes on the effect of the sting of the scorpion, 

 with especial reference to the alleged death of a girl at Hopefield. 

 He believed that the girl had probably been bitten by some other 

 animal, e.g., a horned adder, and cited several instances of people who 

 had been stung by scorpions without serious result. 



Mr. Trimen said that the only other animal besides a snake that 

 could have inflicted the double bite in this case was one of the large 

 spiders. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, May 4, 1887. 



Mr. H. Bolus, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced and the thanks of the 

 Society voted to the donors. 



Jahrbucher der K.K. Central- Austalt fur Meteorologie and 

 Erdmagnetismus, 1885. 



