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Section F. Zoology. 



Alpheus Hyatt : Evolution and migration of Hawaiian land shells. A new 

 classification of fossil Cephalopods. 



J. B. Smith : Notes on the habits of some burrowing bees. A new method 

 of studying underground insects. 



A. S. Packard: On the systematic position of the trilobites. On the Car- 

 boniferous fauna of Rhode Island. On the markings of Nodontian larvae. 



F. P. Gorham: Some points in the Oogenesis of Virbius zostericola Smith. 

 A new species of pigment producing pathogenic bacillus. 



C. S. Minot: On the types of vertebrate embryos. On the embryology of the 

 rabbit. 



H. S. Williams: Variation versus heredity. 



L. 0. Howard: The proposed attempt to introduce Blastophaga psen.es into 

 California. 



C. L. Marlatt : The records for 1898, of Broods VII and XVII, of Cicada 

 septendecim. 



W. H. Ashmead: On the genitalia of ants, and their value in classification. 



B. 0. Hovey: Naples station: general description and notes on methods of 

 work employed there. General statement of types and figured specimens of 

 fossil invertebrates in the American Museum of Natural History. Measurements 

 of two large lobsters, recently added to the collections of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Vm. H. Dall: On the present state of our knowledge of the North American 

 Tertiary mollusk-fauna. 



C. R. Eastman: Some new points in Dinichthyid. 



W. Grabau: Moniloporidae, a new family of Palaeozoic corals. 



John Murdoch: An Historical notice of Ross' rosy gull, Rhodostethia rosea. 



T. Jackson: Localized stages in growth. 



Theo. Gill: On the piscine ancestors of the Amphibians. 



Jas. Lewis Howe: Variation in the shell of Helix nemoralis in the Lexington, 

 Va., Colony. 



S. H. Gage: Hibernation, transformation, and growth of the common toad 

 (Bufo lentiginosus americanus. ) The transformation of the brook lamprey 

 (Lampera wilderi) and parasitism among lampreys. 



W. L. Poteat: Leidy's genus Ouraraoeba. 



C. M. Weed : The winter food of the chickadee. 



T. Jackson: Ink and paper for museum labels. 



W. B. Alwood: Notes on life history of Protoparce Carolina. The life history 

 of Schizoneura lanigera. 



Edward S. Morse: Remarks on Aphorphora. 



Harrison G. Dyar : The phylogeny of the North American Eucleidae. 



G. W. Field: On the anatomy and physiology of the spermatozoa of inverte- 

 brated animals. 



C. B. Davenport: Fauna of Cold Spring Harbor. 



Section G. Botany. 



Bradley M. Davis: The carposporic type of reproduction of Rhodophyceae. 



H. J. Webber: Origin and homologies of blepharoplasts. Notes on the strand 

 flora of Florida. 



W. J. Beal : Leaves of red Astrachan apples immune from the attack of 

 Gymnosporangium macropus. The work performed by the Agricultural College 

 toward a Botanical Survey of Michigan. Some examples illustrating modes of 

 seed dispersion. Remarkable decrease in the size of leaves of Kalmia angustifolia, 

 apparently due to reduction of light. 



Byron D. Halsted: Starch distribution as affected by fungi. Half shade and 

 vegetation. Influence of a wet spring on parasitic fungi. 



Ernst A. Bessey: The comparative anatomy of the pistils of apocarpous 

 families. 



W. R. Shaw : The blepharoplast in the spermatogenesis of Marsilia. 



C. S. Crandall: Observations on the relative moisture content of fruit trees 

 in winter and in summer. 



H. L. Bolley : Some investigations bearing upon the symbiotic mycoplasm 

 theory of grain rust. 



