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Receptions. — April 14th, Seventeenth Annual Reception of 

 the New York Microscopical Society. March 26th, Third Annual 

 Reception of the New York Academy of Sciences. October 23d, 

 Special Reception to the Guests of the Princeton Sesquincenten- 

 nial Anniversary. November 30th, Regular Reception to the 

 Members of the Museum. 



Publications. — Vol. VIII of the Bulletin was issued during 

 the year. A number of plates were prepared for the Memoirs, 

 but it was not possible to provide for the publication of Memoir 

 No. Ill before the close of the year. It is a noteworthy feature 

 of the Bulletin that it contains, for the first time, several papers 

 from the Department of Anthropology, and it therefore forms the 

 first volume in which every department is represented, as shown 

 by the following list of articles comprised in the volume, arranged 

 by departments. 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, ETC. 



Description of a New Genus of Fossil Brachiopod from the Lower Helder- 

 berg Limestones. By R. P. Whitfield (pp. 231, 232). 



Notice and Description of New Species and a New Genus of Phyllocaridse. 

 By R. P. Whitfield (Plates XII-XIV, pp. 299-304). 



Catalogue of Meteorites in the Collection of the American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, to July 1, 1896. By E. O. Hovey (pp. 149-156). 



The Chazy of Lake Champlain. By Ezra Brainerd and Henry M. Seely 

 (pp. 305-315)- 



DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY, ORNITHOLOGY, ETC. 



Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers of Birds without Molting. By 

 J. A. Allen (pp. 13-44). 



Note on Macrogeo?nys cherriei (Allen). By J. A. Allen (Plate I, pp. 45-46). 



On Mammals Collected in Bexar County and vicinity, Texas, by Mr. H. P. 

 Attwater, with Field Notes by the Collector. By J. A. Allen (pp. 47-80). 



Descriptions of New North American Mammals. By J. A. Allen (Plates X 

 and XI, pp. 233-240). 



List of Mammals collected by Mr. Walter W. Granger, in New Mexico, 

 Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska, i8g5-'96, with Field Notes by the Collector. 

 By J. A. Allen (pp. 241-258). 



On Mammals from the Santa Cruz Mountains, California. By J. A. Allen 

 (pp. 263-270). 



The Changes of Plumage in the Dunlin and Sanderling. By Frank M. 

 Chapman (pp. 1-8). 



On the Changes of Plumage in the Snowflake {Plectrophenax nivalis). By 

 Frank M. Chapman (pp. 9-12). 



Notes on Birds observed in Yucatan. By Frank M. Chapman (pp. 271- 

 290). 



