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224 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. [Feb., 1884 
Tue Society oF NaTuRALISTS OF THE EASTERN UNITED 
STATES held its winter meeting in Columbia College, New York, 
Dec. 27 and 28. There was a large attendance of members and 
a goodly list of papers presented, as will be seen by the titles 
given below. The meeting was opened by an address by the presi- 
dent setting forth the aims and objects of the organization. — 
following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, 
Professor Alpheus Hyatt, of the Boston Society of Natural ro 
tory ; vice-presidents, Professor H. N. Martin, of Johns Hopkins 
University of Baltimore, and Professor A. S. Packard, Jr., of Brown 
University, Providence; secretary, Charles Sedgwick Minot, 
Harvard Medical School ; treasurer, Professor William B. ees 
of Princeton, and executive committee at large: Professor 2d 
Lewis, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, @ 
Lester J. Ward, of the United States National Museum. ait 
A committee was appointed to act with the executive eee 
tee in defining what a “ professional naturalist ” is. A yea 
was adopted that the society, recognizing the great imp ee 
a thorough knowledge of modern languages, especially 
and German, to students of natural history, regards it ey a 
ful sign that a conference of professors in this departmen A cot 
assembled, and expresses its sympathy with their "oa ogy 
mittee was also appointed to confer with the section of bi $ 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
TITLES OF PAPERS READ: a PEF 
Application of photography to the preparation of natural history figures | 
By S. H. Gage, y 
Adaptation of lectures to large classes. By W. H. Niles. 
de of making models of gigantic Cephalopods. By J. H. ri, 
Preparation of rock-sections. By James Hall. 
On some methods of pursuing teratological researches. By 
Methods of section-cutting. By E. B, Wilson. 
Arrangement of a museum of vertebrates. .By B. G. Wilder. 
Academies of science. By E. D. Cope. 
Use of pure carminic acid in staining. By G. Dimmock. 
Bleaching skeletons by peroxygen of hydrogen ; skeleton hold 
Instruction in mineralogy and petrography. By M. E. Wadsworth. 
Arrangement of minerals in museums, By H. C. Lewis. j 
Methods of mounting museum specimens for exhibition. By A. Hy 
Good and bad timber. By J. T. Rothrock. 
Evolution and histology. By C. S. Minot. 
Preparation of organs. By B. G. Wilder. ; 
Biology in the Northwest. By W. Trelease. 
Necturus for laboratory use. By B. G. Wilder and J. H. Gage- 
Immersion apparatus. By Alexis Julien. 
Museum administration. By G. B. Goode. 
Method of lecturing to large classes. By A. S. Bickmore. 
Various methods of carmine staining. By B. Sharpe. 
Harrison Allen. 
er. By S. H. Gag® 3 : 
