1136 The American Naturalist. [November, 
(Oct. 29th) On the Paleozoic Reptilian Order of the Cotylosauria, 
E. D. Cope; Ona New Variable of Peculiar Character, S. C. Chandler ; 
On a Bone Cave at Port Kennedy, Pa., E. D. Cope; On Borings 
through the Coral Reef in Florida, A. Agassiz; On the Alkali Urana- 
tes, Wolcott Gibbs; (Oct. 30th) The Olindiadae, W. K. Brooks; The 
New Campanularian Medusae (read by title), W. K. Brooks; The 
Filar Anemometer, Carl Barus; The Counteér-twisted Curl Aneroid, 
Carl Barus; On the Broadening of Spectral Lines by Temperature and 
Pressure ; A. A. Michelson; On the Asteroids (read by title), A. Hall ; 
The Early Segregation of Freshwater Types, Th. Gill. 
Boston Society of Natural History.—Nov. 6, 1895.—The 
following paper was read: Prof. George Lincoln Goodale, “Some 
Peculiarities of Australasian Vegetation.” Illustrated by stereopticon 
views of Australia and New Zealand. 
November 20.—The following paper was read: Dr. J. Walter 
Fewkes, “ Some Newly Discovered Cliff Ruins in Arizona. Stereopti- 
con views were shown.—SAMUEL HENSHAW, Secretary. 
American Philosophical Society.—November 15, 1895.—Prof. 
Cope read a paper “ On the Ancestral Type of Amniote Vertebrata.” 
Dr. Brinton presented a new vocabulary from South America, with © 
remarks. Mr. H. C. Mercer made observations on Indian work in 
the Wyandotte Cave, Indiana. 
The Biological Society of Washington.—October 19.—The 
following communications were made: S. D. Judd, “ The Food of the 
Catbird, Thrushes and Wrens;” L. O. Howard, “An Enemy of the 
Hellgramite Fly ;” W. H. Dall, “ Exhibition of the Remains of the 
Mammoth ;” C. Wardell Stiles, “ The Rudolph Leuckart Memorial ;” 
“The Third International Zoological Congress;” C. Hart Merriam, 
“ North American Shrews.” 
November 5.—The following, communications were made: F. V. 
Coville, “The Botanical Explorations of Thomas Coulter in Mexico 
and California ;” William Palmer, “Albinistic Birds’ Feet;” F. A. 
Lucas, “ The Extinct Gigantic Birds of Patagonia.” 
November 16.—The following communications were made: Barton 
W. Evermann, “The Fishes of the Missouri River Basin;” Frank 
Baker, “Nomenclature of Nerve Cells;” Edw. L. Greene, “ Some 
Fundamentals of Nomenclature.” —FREDERIC A. Lucas, Secretary. 
