1887] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 107 
It is to be issued in weekly numbers at an annual cost of twenty- 
eight marks, and is to concern itself with the phenomena of veg- 
etable and animal parasitism in the widest sense. Dr. Oscar 
Uhlworm, Cassel, is the editor, Professor Leuckart and Dr. 
Loeffler being associated with him. Professor R. Ramsay 
Wright, Toronto, has undertaken to furnish a report to the new 
journal of papers published on this continent referring to animal 
parasites, and will be obliged to authors for extras of such papers. 
— At the last meeting of the Regents of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution a number of changes were introduced into its organiza- 
ion. Professor Samuel Langley, of Alleghany, Pa., was elected 
assistant secretary, and Mr. G. Brown Goode was made second 
assistant secretary. These appointments open upa long future 
of prosperity to the institution, other things being equal. 
— It is not generally known that it is to the late General John 
A. Logan that the United States owes its Geological Survey. 
He introduced and had passed the first bill for this object, and 
Dr. F. V. Hayden was sent, under its provisions, to Nebraska, 
the field of its first operations. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Indiana Academy of Science.—The second annual meeting 
of the Indiana Academy of Science was held in the court-house at 
Indianapolis, December 29 and 30, 1886. The sessions were pre- 
sided over by the president, Professor D. S. Jordan. Twenty-five 
new members were elected after their applications had passed 
through the hands of the nominating committee. The Academy 
was called to order at ten o’clock A.M., December 29, and opened 
with prayer by Rev. A, R. Benton. J. C. Branner, S. Coulter, 
and P 
by J. M. Coulter; “The Mildews of Indiana,” by J. N. Rose; 
“The Chlorophyll Bands of Spirogyra,” by S. Coulter; “ Out- 
line of a Course in Science Study based on Evolution,” by Lillie 
J. Martin; “ The Moss Leaf,” by C. R. Barnes; “ Additions to 
the Flora of Jefferson County, Ind.,” by George C. Hubbard ; 
“Our Blind Mice,” by E. R. Quick; “Notes on the House- 
Building: Habits of the Muskrat,’ by Amos W. Butler; “A 
Curious Habit of the Red-headed Woodpecker,” by O. P. Hay; 
“ Notes on Indiana Ornithology,” by A. W. Butler; “ The Work 
of the A. O. U. Committee on Bird Migration,” by B. W. Ever- 
