84 The American Naturalist. [January, 



Professor E. D. Cope each read papers on their separate specialties in 

 reference to the subject under discussion. The meeting was called ( to 

 order on the 29th, by the President, Professor Rice, and the report of 

 the Treasurer of the society was approved. Among the other 

 items in the Treasurer's report was Si 00 as a subscription to the 

 "American table" at the Naples Zoological Station. Professor H. F. 

 Osborn, of Princeton, introduced Professor Charles W. Stiles, of 

 Washington, that the latter might describe the present status of the 

 Naples Station. 



Professor Stiles told of the excellent work done at Naples, where a 

 laboratory has been erected, which is now a centre of investigation 

 for naturalists all over the world. Here the most eminent scien- 

 tists of all nations assemble to exchange views and study the life that 

 teems in the Bay of Naples. Almost every nation in the world has 

 made a subscription to the station in the form of an endowment for a 

 " table," at which the distinguished scholars may study. The United 

 States was represented for three years through the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, but for many years there has been no American table, and those 

 American students who visit the Biological Station do so as a courtesy 

 from foreign nations. The cost of a table is $500 a year. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science has 

 made a donation of $100, which, with the present donation and one or 

 two other gifts from colleges, will greatly aid the work, so that an 

 American table will almost certainly be maintained in 1892. 



Looking toward the future maintenance of this table, the Executive 

 Committee recommended that the society memorialize the Smithsonian 

 Institution, recommending that the Institution assume the responsibility 

 of maintaining an American table at the Naples Zoological Station in 

 future years. This recommendation was adopted. 



The following members were elected; George V. McLanthalen, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology : Henry B. Ward, Harvard 

 College ; Charles W. Stiles, Department of Agriculture, Washington ; 

 George W. Fuller,- Biologist, Massachusetts Board of Health; J. E. 

 Ives, Philadelphia Academy ; Robert P. Bigelow, JohnsHopkinsUniver- 

 sity; Alexander H. Philip, Princeton College; Charles Freeman 

 William McClure, Princeton College ; William A. Setchell, Yale Col- 

 lege; Joel A. Allen, American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York ; Henry A. Fernald, State College of Pennsylvania. 



The Committee on Nominations recommended the following officers, 

 who were unanimously elected: President, H. Fairfield Osborn, Co- 

 lumbia College; Vice-Presidents, Samuel F.Clarke, Williams College; 



