1893.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 81 
on the Flora of the Black Hills of South Dakota, P. A. Rydberg; 
Notes on Nebraska Phosphates, H. E. Fulmer; Some Notes on Min- 
eral Water from Odell, Nebraska, Rosa Bouton ; Systems of Notation 
in Numbers, Dr. H. E. Hitchcock ; The Flora of Long Pine Canyon, 
Julius Conklin; The Flora of the Sand Hills, Roscoe Pound; A New 
Miocene Rodent, Prof. E. H. Barbour; The Fishes of Nebraska, M. E. 
O’Brien ; Descriptions of Some New Nebraska Orthoptera, L. Bruner ; 
Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Nebraska, L. Bruner ; Notes on the 
Composition of the Lincoln City Gas Supply, Prof. H. H. Nicholson ; 
The Relationship of the Nebraska Flora to That of the Regions Fur- 
ther West, H. S. Clason; The Erysiphee of Crete, W. H. Skinner ; 
The Fresh-Water Algæ of Kearney County, Nebraska, Dr. H. Hape- 
man; Some Mexican Lichens, Prof. T. A. Williams. 
Boston Society of Natural History.—November 16.—The 
following paper was read: The Origin of Drumlins, Mr. Warren 
Upham ; Profs. Shaler and Davis also spoke on the Origin of Drum- 
lins. 
December 7.—The following papers were read : Some Indian Quar- 
ries in Arkansas, Mr. Leon S. Griswold; Notes on a New Order of 
Schizomycetes (Bacteria). Specimens were shown with both papers. 
SAMUEL HENSHAW, Secretary. 
The Biological Society of Washington.—November 19.— 
The following communications were read: On Certain Minute (para- 
sitie?) Bodies Within the Red Blood Corpuscles, Dr. Theobald Smith ; 
The Topographical Relations of the Excretory Canals of Cestodes, 
Dr. C. W. Stiles; A Walchia from New Mexico, Mr. David White ; 
Some Entomological Factors in the Problem of Country Fences, Mr. 
F. M. Webster ; Comparative Value of Plants in Determining Floral 
Zones, Mr. F. V. Coville. 
December 3.—The following communications were read: The 
Cruise of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross in Alaskan 
Waters in 1892, Prof. B. W. Evermann; Some New Grasses, Dr. 
George Vasey; On the Rediscovery of Certain Rare Plants, Mr. J.N. 
Rose; Exhibition of a Complete Series of the Large American Ground 
Squirrels of the Subgenus Otospermophilus, Dr. C. Hart Merriam ; 
The Mathematics of Forest Growth, Dr. B. E. Fernow. 
Freperic A. Lucas, Secretary. 
- Anthropological Society of Washington.—November 15.— 
The following papers were read: Singular Copper Objects from 
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