862 The American Naturalist. [October, 
Wednesday, August, 26-—The Proposed Sociological Institution, by 
James A. Skilton; What is True Money? by Edward Atkinson; The 
Value of Social Settlement, by Aaron B. Keeler; The Wages Fund 
Theory, by Aaron B, Keeler 
Thursday, August 27.—Better Distribution of Forecasts, by John A. 
Miller; The Tin Plate Experiment, by A. P. Winston; Relics of 
Ancient Barbarism, by S. F. Kneeland ; Suicide Legislation, by W. 
Lane O’ Neill. 
Geology.— Wednesday, August 26.—Wednesday afternoon was 
given to a meeting in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of 
of Professor Hall’s work in connection with the New York Survey. 
The presiding officer spoke briefly in behalf of the Association ; and 
Professor Joseph LeConte, President of the Geological Society, spoke 
for that Society. 
Professor Hall was present and responded in person. 
James Hall, Founder of American Stratigraphic Geology, by W. J. 
McGee ; Professor Hall and the Survey of the Fourth District, by John 
M. Clarke. 
Thursday, August 27.—Sheetflood Erosion, by W. J. McGee; Post- 
Cretaceous Grade-Plains in Southern New England. By F. P. Gulliver. 
Thursday Afternoon—Excursion to Eighteen Mile Creek. 
Saturday, August 29.—Excursions. 
Zoology.— Wednesday, August 26.—Notes Upon Cordylophora, by 
C. W. Hargitt ; Modification of the Brain During Growth, by Susanna 
Phelps Gage ; Structure and Morphology of the Oblongata of Fishes, 
by B. F. Kingsbury; Differentiation of Work in Zoology—in Sec- 
ondary Schools, by William Orr, Jr.; Field Work and Its Utility, by 
James G. Needham; Appendages of an Insect Embryo, by Agnes M. 
Claypole; Experiments Upon Regeneration and Heteromorphosis, by 
C. W. Hargitt ; The Penial Structures of the Saurians, by E. D. Cope; 
A Note on the Membranous Roof of the Prosencephal and Diencephal 
of Ganoids, by B. F. Kingsbury. 
` Anthropology.— Wednesday, August 26.—Indian Wampun Rec- 
ords, by Horatio Hale; Seri Stone Art, by W. J. McGee ; The Begin- 
ning of Zoéculture, by W. J. McGee; Resolution upon the appointment 
of a Committee to report on “ The Ethnography of the White Race in 
the United States,” by Daniel G. Brinton; Onondaga Games, by W. 
M. Beauchamp ; Meaning of the Name Manhattan, by William Wallace 
Tooker; Kootenay Indian Place Names, by A. F. Chamberlain ; Koo- 
tenay Indian Names of Implements and Instruments, by A. F. Cham- 
berlain ; Aboriginal Occupation of New York, by W. M. Beauchamp; 
