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sor S. A. Forbes, of Champaign, Ill.; Vice-Presidents, Professor 
W. J. Beal, of Agricultural College, Mich., Pres. T. C. Chamber- 
lain, of Madison, Wis., and Professor Henry L. Osborn, of Ham- 
, Minn.; Secretary, Dr. J. S. Kingsley, of Bloomington, Ind. ; 
Treasurer, Dr. John M. Coulter, of Crawfordsville, Ind. 
voted to hold the annual meetings of the Society in October, the 
organization and had no regular programme. Various members 
discussed methods of biological investigation and instruction. 
Dr. S. A. Forbes exhibited a number of pieces of microscopical 
apparatus in use in the Illinois State University and especially ` 
adapted for drawing microscopic objects. 
Boston Socrery or Natura History, December 21, 1887.— 
The meeting was devoted exclusively to the Antiquity of Man in 
America. Professor F. W. Putnam exhibited a series of paleolithic > 
implements found in the gravels at Trenton, New Jersey, by Dr. 
Abbott; in the gravel of the Little Miami Valley, Ohio, by Dr. 
Metz, and in the glacial deposit at Little Falls, Minnesota, by Miss 
Babbitt; also, for comparison, several from the gravel of the Valley 
of the Somme. Dr. Charles C. Abbott gave an account of the 
recent discoveries in the Trenton gravels and their bearing on the 
antiquity of man in North America. Professor G. F. Wright 
spoke upon the age of the Ohio gravel-beds in which the imple- 
ments were found by Dr. Metz. Mr. Warren Upham read a paper 
apon the erion of the ice sheet in Minnesota in its ETT to 
e gravel deposits overlying the quartz implements found by Miss 
Babbitt at Little Falls, inaota. 4 
A discussion upon the Antiquity of man in the eastern and 
central portions of America followed the reading of the papers. 
January 4, 1888.—Professor W. O. Crosby discussed the Geology 
of the outer islands of Boston Harbor. Mr. James H. Emerton 
described the Anatomy of the Chrysalis of the Milk Weed Butterfly. 
February 1, 1888.—Mr. E. O. Jordan, of the Institute of 
7 wise read a paper on the beginnings of natural history in 
merica. 
_ February 15, 1888.—Dr. Geo. L. Goodale read a sketch of the 
life and work of the late Dr. Asa Gray. 
h 7, 1888.—Professor W. O. Crosby read a paper on the 
geology of the Black Hills of Dakota. ak 
_ March 21, 1887.—Professor F. W. Putnam described the great 
Serpent-mound in Ohio, and Dr. J. W. Fewkes discussed the origin 
of the present form of the Bermudas, both papers being illustrated 
by the stereopticon. 
Essex Instrrure, March 19, 1888.—Professor F. W. Putnam 
