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Clan System of the Pueblos, by F. W. Hodge; The Psychic Source of 
Myths, by Daniel G. Brinton; The Limitation of the Comparative 
Method in Anthropology, by Franz Boas. 
Sociology.— Wednesday, August 26.—The Proposed Sociological 
Institution, by James A. Skilton; The Value of Social Settlement, by 
Aaron B. Keeler; Human Reciprocity, by Mary J. Eastman; Better 
Distribution of Forecasts, by John A. Miller; The Tin Plate Experi- 
ment, by A. P. Winston; Relics of Ancient Barbarism, by S. F. Knee- 
land ; Suicide Legislation, by W. Lane O'Neill; Crime Against Labor, 
by Edward Atkinson. 
Geology.— Thursday, August 27.—Notes on Certain Fossil Plants 
from the Carboniferous of Iowa, by Thomas H. Macbride; The Mak- 
ing of Mammoth Cave, by Horace C. Hovey ; The Colossal Cavern, by 
Horace C. Hovey; Sheetflood Erosion, by W. J. McGee; Glacial 
Flood Deposits in the Chenango Valley, by Albert P. Brigham ; 
Origin of Conglomerates, by T. C. Hopkins ; Origin of the Topographic 
Features in North Carolina, by Collier Cobb; The Cretaceous Clay 
Marl Exposure at Cliffwood, N. J., by Arthur Hollick ; Post-Cretaceous 
Grade-Plains in Southern New England, by F. P. Gulliver; The 
Eocene Stages of Georgia, by Gilbert D. Harris; The Origin and Age 
of the Gypsum Deposits of Kansas, by G. P. Grimsley ; Geomorphie 
Notes on Norway, by J. W. Spencer; The Slopes of the Drowned 
Antillean Valleys, by J. W. Spencer; The “Augen-Gneiss,” Pegmatite 
Veins, and Diorite Dikes at Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y., by Lea 
MclI. Luquer and Heinrich Ries ; Notes on Kansan Drift in Pennsylva- 
nia, by E. H. Williams; Preliminary Notes on the Columbian Depos- 
its of the Susquehanna, by H. B. Bashore. 
Thursday Afternoon.—Excursion to Eighteen Mile Creek. 
Zoology.— Thursday, August 27—The Peritoneal Epithelium in 
Amphibia, by Isabella M. Green; Presented by Simon H. Gage; The 
Heart of the Lungless Salamanders of Cayuga Lake, by Grant S. 
Hopkins; Observations on the Chameleon, Anolis principalis, by Geo. 
V. Reichel; Energy in Animal Nutrition ; Relative efficiency of Ani- 
mals as machines, by Manly Miles; Some Abnormal Chick Embryos, 
by ©. W. Hargitt; On a peculiar Fusion of the Gill-filaments in certain 
Lamellibranchs, by Edward L. Rice; The Relationships of the North 
American Fauna, by Theodore Gill. 
Botany.— Wednesday, August 26.—The development of the vascular 
elements in Indian Corn, by W. W. Rowlee; Some remarks on chala- 
zogamy, by J. M. Coulter; The habits of the rarer ferns of Alabama, 
by L. M. Underwood ; On the stem anatomy of certain Onagracex, by 
