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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Prof. H. E. Chapin, University 
of Ohio; Dr. J. E. Humphrey, Johns Hopkins University ; Prof. 
Maynard Metcalf, Woman’s College of Baltimore; Dr. W. H. C. Pyn- 
chon, Trinity College, and Dr. Norman Wyld, formerly assistant to 
Prof. Lloyd Morgan, in Bristol, England. 
The American Morphological Society, met Dec. 27th and 28th 
at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. The following 
papers were read: Dr. C. W. Stiles, Larval Stages of an Anoplo- 
cephaline Cestode; Dr. W. A. Locy, Primitive Metamerism in Selach- 
ians, Amphibians and Birds; Dr. W. A. Locy, Note on the Homologies 
of the Pineal Sense Organ ; Dr. E. B. Wilson, The Quadrille of the 
Centrosomes in the Echinoderm Egg; A second contribution to Bio- 
logical Mythology; Dr. C. S. Minot, The Olfactory Lobe; Dr. C. S. 
Minot, The fundamental Diference between Animals and Plants; Dr. 
E. B. Wilson, The Polarity of the Egg in Toxopnenstes; Dr. A. Graf, 
The origin of pigment and the causes of the presence of patterns in 
Leeches; Dr. H. T. Fernald, Homoplasy as a Factor in Morphology ; 
Mr. Seitaró Goto, The Anatomy of some Parts of Ectoparasitic Trem- 
atodes; Mr. A. P. Mathews, On the Morphological Changes in the 
Pancreatic Cell corresponding with Functional Activity; Mr. F. C. 
Kenyon, Anatomy and Relationships of Pauropida (read by Dr J. S. 
Kingsley): Dr. F. H. Herrick, Notes on the Biology of the Lobster ; 
Prof. A. Hyatt, Remarks in the Bioplastology of Pecten; Dr. R. G. 
Harrison, Muscle Buds in the Pectoral fins of Teleosts; Dr. T. H. 
Morgan, The Minimum Size of Echinoderm Larve (read by Dr, 
E. A. Andrew). 
The officers of the American Morphological Society for 1895 are: 
President, Dr. E. B. Wilson; Vice-President, Prof. W. B. Scott ; Sec- 
retary and Treasurer, Dr. G. H. Parker; Members of Executive Com- 
mittee from Society at large, Drs. T. H. Morgan and S. Watase. 
American Physiological Society.—Seventh Annual Meeting, 
Baltimore, Md,, 1894 Thursday, December 27th, 9.30 a. m. The follow- 
ing general business was transacted. I. With regard to representation of 
this Society on a committee to decide the place of meeting of the Socie- 
ties of Naturalists, Morphologists, Anatomists, and Physiologists, Pres.. 
H. P. Bowditch ; II. Changesin the Tariff, E. T. Reichert, and T. W. 
Warren; III. The Teaching of Physiology in the Schools; W. H. 
Howell, and F. S. Lee; IV. A Physiological Journal, F. S. Lee, W., 
T. Porter, and H. H. Donaldson; ITI. A Subject for Discussion at the 
next Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, The Council. 
