958 The American Naturalist. [October, 
Races described by early Discoverers and Explorers, by Stephen D. 
Peet ; Root Fungus of Maize, by George Macloskie ; Enantiomorphism 
in Plants, by George Macloskie. 
TUESDAY, SEPT. 3RD. Section E. Interesting Features in the Sur- 
face Geology of the Genesee Region, illustrated with lantern slides, by 
H. L. Fairchild; Japan, Gardner G. Hubbard; Great Falls of the 
Mohawk at Cohoes, N. Y. ; illustrated with lantern slides, by W. H. C. 
Pynchon. In the afternoon the Section met with Section H. 
Section F. On the Girdling of Elm Twigs by the Larvee of Orgygia 
leucostigma, and its Results, by J. A. Lintner ; Notes upon the Eupa- 
guridæ, by Charles W. Hargitt; On a Revision of the North Ameri- 
can Craspedosomatide, by O. F. Cook ; A New Character in the Col- 
obognatha, with Drawings of Siphonotus, by O. F. Cook; A New 
Wheel for Color Mixing in Tests for Color Vision, by J. H. Pillsbury; 
Some Further Results of Investigation of Areas of Color Vision in the 
Human Retina, by J. H. Pillsbury; A Study of Panorpa and Bittacus, 
by E. P. Felt. 
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 47H. Section H. A Study in Anthropo-geog- 
raphy as a Branch of Sociological Investigation, by William Z. Ripley; 
The Algonquian Appellatives of the Siouan Tribes of Virginia, by W. 
M. Wallace Tooker; Indian Songs and Music, by Alice C. Fletcher ; 
The Spider Goddess and the Demon Snare, by F. H. Cushing ; The 
Influence of Prehistoric Pigmy Races on Early Calendars and Cults, 
with Notes on Dwarf Survivals by R. G. Haliburton; Account of the 
Discovery of a Chipped Chert Implement in Undisturbed Glacial 
Gravel near Steubenville, Ohio, by G. F. Wright ; Paleothic Culture, 
its Characteristic Variations and Tokens, by Stephen D. Peet; A 
Melange of Micmac Notes, by Stansbury Hager; Grammatic Form 
and the Verb Concept in Iroquoian Speech, by J. W. B. Hewitt; An- 
thropometrical, Psychoneural and Hypnotic Measurements, by Arthur 
Mac Donald ; The Education of Blind-deaf Mutes, by John Dutton 
Wright; A Study in Child Life, by L. O. Talbot; The Indians of 
Southern California, by Franz Boas; The Cosmogonic Gods of the 
Iroquois, by J. W. B. Hewitt ; Word Formation in the Kootenay Lan- 
guage, by Alex. F. Chamberlain; Kootenay Indian Personal Names, 
by Alex. F. Chamberlain. 
The following officers were elected for the coming year : 
President—Edward D. Cope, of Philadelphia; Vice-Presidents—A— 
Mathematics and Astronomy, William E. Story, of Worcester; B— 
Physics, Carl Leo Mees, of Terre Haute, Ind.; C—Chemistry, W. A. 
Noyes, of Terre Haute, Ind. ; D—Mechanical Science and Engineering, 
Frank O. Marvin, of Lawrence, Kansas; E—Geology and Geography, 
