1885.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies, 335 
7. H. F. Osborn, A simple “method of injecting the entire arterial and nervous 
systems in different colors 
8. H. P. Bowditch. A new fers of stop-cock for rubber-tubing, 
9. R. Ramsay Wright. On methods of staining series of sections. 
10. B. G. Wilder. The use of slips in scientific correspondence. 
11, C. S. Minot. On a new staining solution for histological use. 
12. C. A, Ashburner. Notes on barometric hypsometry. 
H. C. Lewis. A summer school of geology, 
+. A. Ashburner. Methods in practical geology. 
. N. Martin. The use of modeling clay to illustrate lectures. 
F. Osborn, Methods of hanan the embryology of the opossum. 
eo, Gill. On osteological collections 
n G T fi apes The collecting and working of invertebrate palzontologic ma- 
2, G. x. ‘Gilbert. Geological bibliography. 
3. Geo. P. Merrill. pabibiies of a colored, enlarged photo-micrograph of a thin 
4. G. Brown Aeg " Account of the unit system of cases used in the U. S. 
barese e 
5. Ryder. On museum alcoholic 
6. Wilder and Gage. An fovedtigatare table with double or triple revolving top, 
k eas 
7. R. R. Wright. On the of series of sections in laboratory teaching and a 
convenient method of « Seals them. 
30th, P. M. 
I. H. A, Howell. On en use of terrapin blood for the demonstration of the phe- 
nomena of coagulati 
2, Harrison Allen. Exhibition of the palat ograph. 
C. V. Riley.. On the mounting of alcoholic 5 ABORT in insect cabinets, 
type speci 
. Gor The use of photography for making Di diagrams. 
8. W. H. Niles. Shall we d efine groups of organisms? 
9. L. F On a method of rapid drawing for ‘Faigle AE a 
10, R. E. call, ` Dentition of certain mollusks. 
BiotocicaL Society oF WasuincTon.—The fifth anniversary 
meeting of the Society was held Jan. 24, 1885. The retiring 
president, Professor Charles A. White, delivered an address upon 
the application of biology to geological history. 
New York Acapemy OF ScIENCES, Jan. 12, 1885.— sce B. B. 
Chamberlain read notes on minerals from the French Creek 
mines, Chester county, Penna. (with exhibition of specimens). 
Jan. 26, 1885.—The plan of the Mississippi River Commission 
and its relation to natural laws, was discussed by Mr. William L. 
Elseffer, C. E. 
Boston Soctety or NaruraL History, Jan. 7, 1885.—Professor 
W. O. Crosby read a paper on the color of soils. 
oo as seen oah, interviews with a native Corean. 
