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. and music. The following programme for the band was pre- 
sented: 
‘Avie Torpedo-and the Whale. i.iie. sc cevrs ees ceres sewer cs eee Audran. 
Marchande de Marée.............00. ‘ Lecocq 
ne day I caught a Fish..... Planquette 
One of the editors of the NATuRALIST who was present and en- 
joyed the occasion, makes the following report on the merits of 
some of the more novel dishes. 
Bisque of razor clams (.So/en), very delicate. 
Consommé of Mossbunker (Brevurtia menhaden), strong and 
oily, 
Horse-shoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus), good, equal to the 
best devilled crabs. 
Drum (Pogonias chremis), very flat. 
Raie au beurre noir (Raja), tender but tasteless. 
Sauté of shark steaks (man-eater, Eulamia milberti, said to have 
recently eaten a negro), tender and with good flavor. 
Squid a la Starin (Lo/igo sp.), rather tasteless. 
Hellbenders (Protonopsis horrida) ‘to be now called in defer- 
ence to the new revision N. T., hades-benders), good, much like 
frogs’ hind legs. 
_ Beyond this the editor did not extend his researches. He de- 
sires to express his acknowledgment to Messrs. John Foord, 
president, and Eugene Blackford, of the committee of arrange- 
ments, for especial favors. ; 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
_ Boston Society or Naturat History, May 4.—Annual meet- 
ing. The annual reports of the curator, secretary and treasurer 
were presented, and the officers for 1881-2, elected. Dr. H. P. 
Bowditch spoke of the distribution of the papilla on the skin, 
and Dr. C.S. Minot remarked on the young stages of the embryo 
chick, both subjects being illustrated by lantern projections. = __ 
‘v 18—Dr. M. E. Wadsworth remarked on a microscopic 
€xamination of the Iron ore (Peridotite) of Iron Mine Hill, Cum- 
berland, Rhode Island; Mr. F. W. Putnam gave an account of 
his recent archeological explorations in the Little Miami valley 
in Southern Ohio ; Professor E. S. Morse spoke of the agricultu- 
ral implements of Japan; and Mr. W. W. Dodge gave a few de- 
tails of local geology. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, May 30.—Mr. A. A. Julien 
read a paper on the identification of the so-called “ porphyry 
