12 secretary's annual report. 



Bureau of Ethnolgy, (Department of the Interior). 



Bureau of U. S. Geological Survey, (Department of the Interior). 



Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries of New Jersey. 



California Academy of Sciences. 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Haven, Conn. 



Cincinnati Society of Natural Science, Cincinnati. Ohio. 



Canadian Record and Natural History Society of Montreal. 



Davenport Academy of Natural Science, Davenport, Iowa. 



Department of the Interior. 



Engineer Department of U. S. Army. 



Library Company, Philadelphia. 



Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, Minn. 



Middlesex Institute, Mass. 



Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. 



Magazine of American History. 



New York Academy of Sciences, New York. 



Natural History Society of Glasgow, Scotland. 



Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Halifax. 



Newport Natural History Society, Newport, R. I. 



New York Microscopical Society, New York. 



Oberhessischen Gesellaschaft fur Natur-und Heilkunde, Giessen. 



Peabody Academy of Sciences, Salem, Mass. 



Psyche. 



Portland Society of Natural History, Portland, Me. 



Rochester Society of Natural Science, Rochester, N. Y. 



Royal Society of Canada. 



Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires. 



Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, Russia. 



Smithsonian Institution. 



Torrey Botanical Club, New York. 



U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, D. C. 



Wisconsin Natural History Society. 



Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison, Wis. 



Vassar Miscellany, Vassar College. 



Fifty-seven volumes of books, and one hundred seventy- 

 two pamphlets, mostly the transactions and papers of 

 scientific and philosophical societies, have been received 

 for the library. Valuable contributions have also been 

 made to the museum, the details of which appear in the 

 report of the curator. 



The following papers were read before the Scientific 

 Section during the season of 1884-85 : 



