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1885.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 1029 
in Illinois and Missouri, William McAdams; Exhibit of speci- 
mens with notes, W. L. Coffinberry; Customs, language, and 
legends of the Senecas, J. W. Sanborn. 
Monday, August 31st. Section E—Geology and Geography — 
A new mass of meteoric iron from Charleston, Kanawha Co., West 
Virginia, George F. Kunz; Mineralogical notes: curious form of 
beryl from Auburn, Maine, capped garnet from Raymond, Maine, 
and an artificially stained turquoise from New Mexico, George F. 
Kunz; The tourmaline locality at Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine, 
George F. Kunz; A pseudomorph of feldspar after leucite (?) from 
Magnet Cove, Arkansas, George F. Kunz; Notes on a remarkable 
collection of rough diamonds, George F. Kunz; Native antimony 
and its associations at Prince William, York Co., N. B., George 
F. Kunz; The record of the deep well of the Cleveland Rolling 
Mill Company, Cleveland, Ohio, Edward Orton; The materials 
of the Appalachians, E. W. Claypole; Apatite deposits in Lau- 
rentian rocks, T. Sterry Hunt; Glaciation of the Lackawanna val-’ 
ley, John C. Branner. 
Section F—Biology—On the appearance of the relation of 
ovary and perianth in the development of dicotyledons, John M. 
Coulter; A new membrane of the human skin, Charles Sedgwick 
Minot; The development of the prothallium of ferns, D. H. 
Campbell ; Organization and death, Charles Sedgwick Minot; 
Morphology of the supra-renal capsules, Charles Sedgwick Minot; 
The importance of individual facts of environment in the forma- 
tion of groups of animals, J. B. Steere; Experiments antag- 
onizing the view that the serrulz (serrated appendages) of Amia 
are accessory organs, Burt G. Wilder; The structure of the 
human placenta, Charles Sedgwick Minot; On the structure and 
functions of Spheeridia of the Echinide, Howard Ayers ; On the 
carapax and sternum of the decapod Crustacea, Howard Ayers ; 
otes on some injurious fungi of California, W. G. Farlow; A 
new Chromogenous Bacillus (Bacillus luteus suis), D. E. Salmon 
and Thomas Smith; Evolution of the lungs, Charles Sedgwick 
inot. 
Section H—Anthropology—Music in speech, M. L. Rouse; 
e stone ax in the Champlain valley, G. H. Perkins; The num- 
ber habit, C. S. Minot; Indian personal names, J. Owen Dorsey ; 
An average day in camp, Alice C. Fletcher; Are contemporary 
phantasms of the dead to be explained partly as folk lore? C. 3 
Minot; Ornaments made of pieces of human skulls, from a mound 
in Ohio, F. W. Putnam. 
Tuesday, September 1st. Section E—Geology and Geogra- 
phy.—The Corniferous or Upper Helderberg group of Scott 
county, Iowa, and Rock Island, Ill., with a list of its fossils, A. S. 
Tiffany; The Chemung group at Burlington, Iowa, with a list of 
its fossils, A. S. Tiffany; Notice of Lingula and Paradoxides from 
