488 The American Naturalist. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 
Boston Society of Natural History.—April 5.—The 
lowing paper was read by Professor George Lincoln Goodale: 
some aspects of Australian vegetation.” It was illustrated 
stereopticon views. 
SAMUEL HENSHAW, Secreto 
New York Academy of Sciences. Biological Sectic 
March 13, 1893.—Professor T. D. Quackenbos, in a paper on the 
ling of Lake Sunapee, distinguishes, in this, a fourth variety of 
England Charr, demonstrating that the present abundance of 
Salvelinus is accounted for not from its introduction and 1 
increase, but from destruction of inimical forms within recent 
which has given a greater available food supply. Professor 
Huntington, on “Anomalies of Pectoralis major and minor,” ref 
to the value of these as often presenting reversions. He emph 
the evolutionary tendency in man to proximalization of the poir 
attachment of the shoulder muscle group, referred to cleavage 
tions in anterior portion of brachiocephalic sheet, and compared | 
with ontogenetic characters in Anthropoids. Human anomalies 
Romeyn B. Hough, for the State Forestry exhibit at the 
Exposition, as mentioned at the meeting of October 15, 1892. 
Pany’s water, from a sample taken from a hydrant at the c 
New York Avenue and Cliff Street, and found 185 individual b 
per cubic centimetre, The temperature of the water was 34° Far, 
Previously stated, the New York City Croton water contains 
12,000 per cubic centimetere, : 
