92 General Notes. 
Peabody Museum, on December 27th, 28th and 29th. The follow- 
ing papers were rea 
Twesday— Biology. —(1) The President’s address on “ The Incon- 
stant in Biology,” by Professor Harrison Allen, M. D.; (2) “ Per- 
fected Wools for Detection of Color,” by Charles A. Oliver, M. D.; 
(3) “Injection of the Thoracic Duct,” by Professor S. H. Gage; ; 
(4) Exhibition of newly-devised Physiological Apparatus, by Pro- 
fessor H. Newell Martin; (5) “ Method of Life-size Model-making 
of the Larger Animals,” by Mr. James H. Emerton; (6) “A 
Lecture-room Illustration of Variation under Domestication and 
in Nature,” by Samuel F. Clarke; (7) “ Methods of Cutting Serial 
Brain and Spinal Cord Sections,” by Professor Henry F. Osborn ; 
8) “A New Automatic Microtome,” by Dr. Charles S. Minot; 
ae E Fes the Preparation of Serial g nS ” by Dr. Charles S. 
‘Wednesday — Science-Teaching in the Schools.” — Papers 
read by Professor Alexander Winchell, of Fast cae Protests 
George Macloskie, of Princeton ; Professor William North Rice, of 
Wesleyan ; Professor Ramsay Wright, of Toronto. 
Thursday —Geology. —(1) “ The Volcano of Kilauea,” by Profes- 
sor James D. Dana; (2) A Paleontological paper, by Professor 
William ‘B. Scott ‘(not read); (3) “A Simple Method of 
Measuring the Thickness of Inclined Strata,” by Mr. C. D. Wal- 
cott ; (4) “ Improved Machinery and Appliances for Cutting Sec- 
tions of Rocks and Fossils in Any Desired Planes,” by Professor 
William B. Dwight; (5) “The Educational Value of Micropetro- 
graphy,” by Professor George H. Williams; (6) “Instruction in 
Mineralogy and Structural Geology in the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology,” by Professor W. O. aiid (7) “ Museum-Cases 
in Europe,” by Professor Edward S, M 
A resolution appropriating sixty ene for the purchase of ten 
o of Volume I. of the American Journal of. Morphology was 
adopt 
Also, a resolution identical with that which passed the American 
Philosophical Society and six other scientific societies, requesting 
Congress to remove the duty on scientific books and apparatus. 
The Society adjourned, to meet at the same time in 1888 at the 
Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Md. 
President, HARRISON ALLEN; Vice Presidents, G. L. GooDALE, 
H. 8. WILLIAMS, H. F. OSBORN; Secretary, S. F. CLARKE ; 
Treasurer, W. T. SEDGWICK ; Executive Committee from Society 
at large, Ricnarp RATHBUN and Grorcr H. WILLIAMS. 
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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY or WAsHINGTON.—October 22, 1887.— 
Communications: L. O. Howard, An Ant-decapitating Parasite ; 
Geo. Vasey, Notes on Western Grasses ; F. A. Lucas, The Bird 
Rocks in 1887; A. A. Crozier, Some Botanical Terms ; C. Hart 
Merriam, The Fauna of the Great Smoky Mountains. 
