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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
The American Society of Naturalists metin Baltimore at the 
Johns Hopkins University on Dec. 27th and 28th. The following 
were the officers: President, C. S. Minot; Vice-Presidents, William 
H. Dall, William Libbey, Jr., S. I. Smith ; Secretary, W. A. Setchell; 
` Treasurer, E. G. Gardiner ; Committee at Large, H. F. Osborn, C. W. 
Stiles. : 
_The Program was as follows: Thursday, December 27th, 2 P. m. 
Meeting iu the Physical Laboratory for the following General Business: 
I. Reports of committees. II. Special reports. III. Recommendation 
of new members. IV. Discussion. Subject: Environment in its In- 
fluence upon the Successive Stages of Development and as a Cause of 
Variation. This was conducted by Prof. H. F. Osborn, Columbia 
College; Prof. E. B. Wilson, Columbia College ; Prof. W. K. Brooks, 
Johns Hopkins University ; Doctor C. Hart Merriam, U.S. Dept. of 
Agriculture. Thursday, 8 P. m., Illustrated lecture in Levering Hall, 
by Professor William Libbey, Jr., of Princeton University. Subject : 
Two Months in Greenland. Thursday, 9 P. m., The Johns Hopkins 
University received the members of the Society and their friends at a 
social assembly in McCoy Hall. Friday, December 28th, 9, a. m., 
General Session. I. Election of new members. II. Election of officers 
for 1895. III. Other business. Friday, 10 a. m., I. President’s Ad- 
dress. Subject: The Work of Naturalist in the World, Prof. C. S. 
Minot, Harvard University. . II. Annual Discussion. Subject: Labo- 
ratory Teaching of Large Classes. I. Introductory, Prof. Alpheus 
Hyatt, Boston Society of Natural History. 2. Zoological, Prof. H. C. 
Bumpus, Brown University. 3. Botanical, Prof. W. F. Ganong, 
Smith College. 4. General Discussion. Friday, 7.30 P. M., Annual 
Dinner of the Society of Naturalists and affiliated societies at The 
Stafford. 
Officers for 1895 are President, Edward D. Cope, University of 
Pennsylvania; Vice-Presidents, Prof. William Libbey, Jr., Princeton ; 
Prof. W. G. Farlow, Harvard; Dr. C. O. Whitman, University of 
Chicago ; Secretary, Prof. H. C. Bumpus, Brown University ; Treas- 
urer, Dr. Edward G. Gardiner, Boston ; Committee at large, Prof. 
Edmund B. Wilson, Columbia ; Prof. W. H. Howell, Johns Hopkins. 
The followed new members were elected: Dr. William Ashmead, 
United States Department of Agriculture; Dr. Severance Burrage, 
