icfo General Notes. 
and it will be seen from the above dates to be an excellent guide, for 
it is not until its flowers appear that the fish come in numbers." 
Mr. Chas. W. Leng presented the following memorandum : "■ In the 
Proceedings of April 14, 1888, a correction must be made in regard 
to the pupation of water beetles, the fact being that they pupate not 
under water, but in soil. Mr. Davis has this year raised the larvae of 
Hydrophilus triangularis and supplied a part of the larvae with soil 
under water and others simply with soil. The first lot refused to 
pupate, while many of the second lot formed pupas in the ground." 
The Indiana Academy of Science held its annual meeting in 
the Court-House at Indianapolis Dec. 25, 26, and 27. The follow- 
ing papers were read : Geographical Distribution of Umbellifers, J. 
M. Coulter ; A Study of the Sub-epidermal Rusts of (brasses and 
Sedges, H. L. Bolley ; The Future of Systematic Botany, J. M. Coul- 
ter ; Raphides in Fruit of Monstera deliciosa^ W. S. VVindle ; The 
Spines of Cactacae, Walter H. Evans ; Strengthening Cells and Resin 
Ducts in Coniferce (by abstract), S. Coulter ; The Epidermal Scales 
of Tillandsia, H. Seaton ; Peculiarities of the Indiana Flora, J. M. 
Coulter ; An Objection to the Contraction Hypothesis as Accounting 
for Mountains, F. B. Taylor ; The Old Channel of Niagara River, 
J. T. Scovell ; The " Collett Glacial River," J. L. Campbell ; A Sketch 
of the Geology of Arkansas, J. C. Branner ; Evidences of Shallow 
Water Deposition of Silurian Rocks, Chas W. Hargitt ; Meanderings 
of the Arkansas River Below Little Rock, J. C. Branner ; Occurrence 
of Ancistrodon contortrix in Dearborn County, Ind., C. W. Hargitt ; 
Some Strange Cases of Color Variation in Animals, C. W. Hargitt ; 
Amoeba : a Query, S. Coulter ; On a Striped Spermophile Mammal 
New to Indiana, A. W. Butler ; Explorations of the United States Fish 
Commission in Virginia and North Carolina, D. S. Jordan ; Analogy 
between River Faun« and Island Faun«, D. S. Jordan ; Outline of 
Work in Physiological Psychology, W. J. Bryan ; The Ancestry of 
the Blind Fishes, I). S. Jordan ; A New'Kind of Phosphorescent Or- 
gans in Porichthys, Fred. C. Test ; Notes on Indiana Reptiles, A. \N'- 
Butler ; On the Skull of the Larva of Amphiuma means. On the Hyo- 
branchial Apparatus of Amblystoma jnicrostomum, Further on the 
Habits of Some Amblystomas, O. P. Hay ; Contributions to the 
Knowledge of the Genus Branchipus, O. P. and W. P. Hay ; The Oc- 
currence in Indiana of the Wood Ibis {Tantalum loculator), B ^^ ■ 
Evermann ; The Relation of Systematic Zoology to Museum Admmis- 
tration, D. S. Jordan ; Observations on the Destruction of Birds by 
Storms on Lake Michigan, A. W. Butler ; Additions to the Fish- 
Fauna of Vigo County, Indiana, B. W. Evermann ; Some Notes on 
the Natural History of Guaymas, Mexico, O. P. Jenkins and B. ^V. 
Evermann. The Presidential address, '* Religion and Continuity," 'w^s 
delivered Christmas night by Dr. D. P. D. John. The followmg oflh- 
cers were elected for the following year : President, John C. Bran- 
ner ; Vice-Presidents, T. C. Mendenhall, Oliver P. Hay, John L. 
Campbell ; Secretary, Amos W. Butler ; Treasurer, Oliver P. Jen- 
kins. The Field-meeting will be held at Greensburg, Ind., in May. 
