306 The American Naturalist. — [March, 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
American Society of Naturalists.—This body met at Prince- 
ton, N. J., in J. C. Green Science Hall of Princeton College, on Decem- 
ber 28-9, 1892. Professor Osborn, of Columbia College, N. Y., was 
President, and Professor T. H. Morgan, of Bryn Mawr College, Pa., was 
Secretary. On the afternoon of Dec. 28th, President Patton, of Prince- 
ton College, gave an address of welcome. A committee was appointed 
to confer with the executive committees of the affiliated societies to 
bring about a union between the societies of Morphologists and Anato- 
mists. Professor Sedgwick read a report by Professor S. F. Clark, on 
Science Teaching in Schools. Reports on Marine Biological Laborator- 
ies were presented by Dr. E. A. Andrews, of Johns Hopkins University 
on the Marine Station in Jamaica; Dr. D. Bashford Dean read a 
paper on the Marine Laboratories of Europe, which was handsomely 
illustrated ; Professor C. O. Whitman read a paper on the Outlook of 
the Marine Laboratory at Woods Holl, Mass. Dr. Stiles read a report 
of progress in obtaining support for an American table at the Marine 
Laboratory at Naples. The Society adopted resolutions favoring the 
establishment and continuous support of a table at that Laboratory. 
In the evening the Annual Dinner took place in University Hall 
After the address by the President, Professor Osborn, remarks were 
made by Professor Brewer, of Yale, Professor Cope, of Pennsylvania, 
Dr. Heitzman, of New York, Professor Minot, of Harvard, and others. 
On Dee. 29th, the following members were elected: Howard Ayers, — 
J. H. Bamhart, G. W. Calkins, T. M. Chapman, D. Bashford Dean, 
D. G. Elliot, B. D. Halsted, Ida A. Keller, Edwin Linton, T. B. Lotsy, 
J. I. Peck, H. 8. Pratt, J. E. Reighard, Wm. E. Ritter, J. P. Smith, 
O. S$. Strong, R. Thaxter, H. H. Wilder, Arthur Willey, J. L. Wort- — 
man. 
Professor Libbey offered the following resolution, which was carried : 
That a committee be appointed to bring about an affiliation of the 
Physiological, Te am des Anatomical and Geological Societies 
with this body. 
New Haven was adopted as the next place of meeting. The follow- 
ing officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Professor R. 
H. Chittendon, New Haven; Vice-Presidents, Professor G. Baur, Chi- — 
cago, and Dr. Wm. H. Dall, Washington, and Professor Wm. Libbey, : 
Princeton; Secretary, Professor T. H. Morgan, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; 
