958 The American Naturalist. [November, 
the southern fields where much collaboration has perplexed the subject, 
and turn northward. There the coastis clear. There evidence broaden- 
ing the perspective of the European student, and setting a wide geogra- 
phical limit to the ancient human record, can be established in unex- 
plored caves, where in a new way the unearthed testimony should show 
the relation of fossil man to glacial ice and cold——H. C. Mercer. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
New York Academy of Sciences.—Biological Section, Octo- 
ber 12, 1896.—Dr. Bashford Dean and Mr. G. N. Calkins presented 
preliminary reports upon the results attained at the Columbia Univer- 
sity Zoological Laboratory at Port Townsend, Washington. The ex- 
pedition spent about six weeks in exploring and collecting, and brought 
home large collections from exceptionally favorable collecting grounds. 
Dr. Dean spent some time in Monterey, Cal., and brought home col- 
lections of eggs and embryos of Chimera and Bdellostoma. 
Dr. J. L. Wortman made a preliminary report upon the American 
Museum Expedition to the Puerco and Wasatch Beds. He reported 
finding a connecting link between the close of the Cretaceous and the 
beginning of the Tertiary. He gave an interesting account of the 
massive ruins of the so-called cliff-dwellersin the region visited by him. 
In the Big Horn basin the expedition had remarkable success as well 
as in the Wind River basin. 
Prof. Osborn stated that with the collections made this summer the 
American Museum could now announce that their Eocene collection 
was complete, containing all mammals now known in the Eocene; that 
their collection from the Wasatch bed was the finest in existence, and 
that from the Wind River basin was complete; the Bridger was repre- 
sented by all but two or three types; and fine collections have been 
made in the Uintah. 
Mr. W. J. Hornaday made a report of a tour of inspection of foreign 
zoological gardens, made under the auspices of the New York Zoologi- 
cal Society. He visited fifteen gardens in England and on the conti- 
nent, studying the features of excellence in each, 
- Prof. Bristol gave a brief account of the progress at the Marine 
Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Hole, Mass., during the past summer. 
