870 The American Naturalist. [Bepteistsär 
Thursday, August 21st.—Papers read in Section E.—Geology and 
Geography.—Preservation of Glaciated Rocks, by Homer T. Fuller. 
An Old Channel of the Niagara River, by J. T. Scovell. Niagara: A 
Few Last Words in Reply to Mr. G. K. Gilbert’s History of the Niagara 
River, by George W. Holley. A Local Deposit of Glacial Gravel 
Found in Park County, Ind., by John T. Campbell. Concerning 
Some Portions of Castorotdes ohioensis Foster, not heretofore known, 
by Joseph Moore. The ‘‘ Barking Sands’’ of the Hawaiian Islands, 
y H. Carrington Bolton. Occurrences of Sonorous Sand on the 
Pacific Coast of the United States, by Carrington Bolton. Floridite, 
a New Variety of Phosphorite found in Florida, by E. T. Cox. The 
Columbia Formation in the Mississippi Embayment, by W. J. McGee. 
Section F.—Biology.—Forest Trees of Indiana, by Stanley Coulter. 
Food of Bees, by A. J. Cook. A Case of Morbid Affection of the 
Eye in a Cat, by C. L. Herrick. Preliminary Notes on a New and 
Destructive Oat Disease, by B. T. Galloway. Observations on the 
Variability of Disease Germs, by Theobald Smith. Changes in the 
Ciliated Areas of the Alimentary Canal of the Amphibia During De- 
velopment, and the Relation to the Mode of Respiration, by Simon H. 
Gage and Susanna P, Gage. Combined Aerial and Aquatic Respira- 
tion in Amphibia, and the Functions of the External Gills in Forms 
Hatched on Land, Simon Gage. The Trimorphism of Uromyces 
trifoliz, J. K. Howell, presented by W.: R. Dudley. The Harvest 
Spiders of North America, by Clarence M. Weed. Morphology of the 
Blood Borpuscles, by C. S. Minot. Observations on the Life-History 
of Uncinula spiralis, by B. T. Galloway. On the Seed Coats of the 
Genus Euphorbia, by L. H. Pammel. Observations on the Method 
of Growth of the Prothallia of the Filicinez, with Reference to their 
Relationship, by Douglas H. Campbell. Development of the Sporo- 
carp of Griffithsia bornetiana, by V. M. Spalding. Contributions to 
the Life-History of Isseus, by Douglas H. Campbell. 
eon H.— Anthropology.—Indian se of Maple Sugar, by H. 
W. Henshaw. Fort Ancient, by W. K. Moorehead. Aboriginal 
Stone Implements of the Potomac Valley, by W. H. Holmes. Sug- 
gestion for a Pan-American as Precursor to an Universal Language, by 
R. T. Colburn. Dialectic Studies in the Swedish Province of Dale- 
carlia, by J. Muller. Notice of a Singular Earth-work near Fosters, 
Little Miami Valley, Ohio, by F. W. Putnam. 
Papers read on Friday, August 22d, in Section E.— Geology and 
Geography.—What Constitutes the Taconic Mountains? N. H. Win- 
chell. The Formations and Artesian Wells of Memphis, Tenn., 
